Toronto Centre provides high quality capacity building programs and guidance for financial supervisors and regulators, primarily in developing nations, to advance financial stability and inclusion. Since inception, Toronto Centre has trained over 30,000 officials from 190 jurisdictions.

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Building the capacity of financial sector regulators and supervisors

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Participants are trained to identify barriers to regulatory and supervisory sound practices and to determine appropriate responses. The training takes them through institutional frameworks and surveillance tools, capital analysis, cross-border cooperation, relationships with non-regulated entities. It addresses challenges including weak legal mandates, institutional resistance, lack of support, and resource limitations.


Toronto Centre programs are designed to ensure regulators and supervisors understand the specific financial issues affecting women, and to reduce barriers to their use of financial services that often take the form of discriminatory policies, regulations, or biases. We aim for gender balance in all programs and apply a gender lens at the design stage.


               

Toronto Centre’s programs are delivered on the ground and can be tailored to meet a supervisory agency’s needs. We use case studies, simulations, role playing, and group discussions to identify optimal solutions to supervisory and regulatory problems. Programs are focused on capacity building and developing tools to meet country-specific challenges, and cases are based on real-life experiences of our experienced program leaders.


Our programs help to empower supervisors and regulators to transform their agencies and implement international standards of sound practice and focus on issues such as lack of support and budgeting, out-of-date methodologies and legislation, and shortage of skilled staff. Because our focus is on making changes, we provide post-program support to aid participants implement their action plans.


Participants meet and interact with peers from other countries who are facing challenges that can be different on the surface but often have similar causes, such as political, legislative, budgetary, and capacity issues. The ability to discuss these challenges in a safe and confidential environment with others facing similar challenges can be uniquely helpful.

• Banking • Securities  • Insurance • Pensions • Microfinance • Microinsurance • Cross-Sectoral - Toronto Centre offers programming on a variety of supervisory topics including risk-based supervision, crisis management and resolution, financial inclusion, market conduct and consumer protection, supervisory oversight, and macroprudential surveillance.

Many governments, businesses, policymakers, and supervisory authorities understand the importance of gender and gender inclusion in our fast-evolving world. Yet for supervisory authorities, it is not always clear how gender and gender inclusion relate to their supervisory mandate and what they tangibly can do to promote great gender inclusion. In collaboration with USAID, Toronto Centre designed this toolkit to assist financial supervisors from emerging markets with integrating gender dimensions into their supervisory practices. It is a practical, hands-on resource intended to highlight the relevance of gender inclusion and awareness to supervisory authorities and support them in taking their next steps towards more gender-aware supervision. 

The toolkit, First Step: Integrating Gender into Technology-Enabled Financial Sector Supervision, is intended to help supervisory authorities at all levels of gender-awareness. The modular format allows supervisors to customize their learning based on their organization’s starting point - be it through step-by-step guidance on the foundational aspects of gender-awareness thinking, better harnessing technology to enhance existing practices and understandings, or integrating gender aspects in day-to-day supervision. The modules are designed to be flexed to account for different market, technological and regulatory contexts to ensure they are useful across a wide variety of institutional contexts.

 

 

To help supervisors with navigating the toolkit, Toronto Centre has provided the following resources. 

Immediately below is a webinar discussion with the toolkit’s authors. They dive into how to deploy the toolkit in a supervisory authority and discuss the benefits of taking a gender-aware approach to supervision.  In addition, representatives of some of Toronto Centre’s founders and funders discuss the importance of gender-aware supervision. 

Also on this page are podcasts in which two authorities discuss their experience of piloting using toolkit materials and how their organizations benefited.

 

 
This webinar is also available as a podcast:
 

 

More Helpful Tools

This podcast discusses Kenya's experience testing the toolkit materials and how their organizations benefited from the Gender-Awareness Supervision Toolkit. Read the Transcript here. Read their biographies here

 

 

Este podcast discutirá la experiencia de Columbia probando los materiales del kit de herramientas y cómo sus organizaciones se beneficiaron del kit de herramientas de supervisión de la conciencia de género. Lea la transcripción aquí. Lea sus biografías aquí

 

 
 
 

Toolkit Resources: 

Download the full toolkit here

Module A1: Business Case for Gender-Aware Supervision
 
A1-1 Gender-Aware Supervision Toolkit Overview
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Module A3: Strategic Direction and Decisions
 
 
 
 
 
 
Module B1: Towards a Technology Roadmap
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Module B2: Gender-Aware Supervision
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Module B3: Harnessing Technology for Gender-Aware Supervision
 
 
 
 
 
Toronto Centre is committed to providing inclusive and barrier-free access to our public information, documentation, and programs.  Upon request, Toronto Centre will provide information and communications in accessible formats to any person with disabilities, in consultation with the requestor on their preferred format.
 
 
This page and toolkit are made possible by the support of the American People through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents of this page and toolkit are the sole responsibility of the Toronto Centre and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
 

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