Financial inclusion is a crucial component in the quest to elevate the role of women in the economies of Africa, and women are increasingly playing a role in growing the continent’s largest sector, agriculture.
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KPMG was appointed the Fund Manager in for the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural prosperity in 2014 and set off with an aim of enabling 1 million people in rural Africa to have access to savings, credit and insurance products and services. The Fund operated from Nairobi, Kenya and had a team working from Ghana who assisted in overseeing projects in West Africa.
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Digitalisation is enabling participants affected by shocks to continue to strategically learn, test and scale up
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A crucial component of strengthening the food value chain is providing financial access to smallholder farmers so as to address farm productivity, poverty reduction and ultimately food security.
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Insights and learnings from FutureLink Technologies digitisation of member institutions and SACCOS across Uganda using shared agency network deployment.
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From its inception, the Fund has focused on harnessing the creativity and capacity of the financial sector and agribusinesses to innovate, increasing access to and delivering financial services at scale. Bodies of work from multiple players and insights from the Fund itself show that key drivers of innovation include digital technology and digital financial services, yet their rollout is often constrained by lack of adequate and effective policy. This is why the Fund is excited about the launch of Ghana’s Digital Financial Services (DFS) policy, a first for the continent, and what this could mean to the Fund participants.
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In this first in a series of articles, Theo Sands from Fund partner IPE Triple line introduces how the Fund and its participants are rising up to the challenge posed by COVID-19 with the ultimate aim of protecting great achievements made in uplifting beneficiaries through financial inclusion.
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Ibero Uganda is part of the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe based in Hamburg, Germany. Ibero Uganda exports quality Uganda coffees, with warehouses and processing facilities in Kampala and out-stations in all major coffee-producing regions of Uganda.
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Explore the various lessons learned by the Fund and how findings from the Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab will help improve support for innovative businesses in rural Africa.
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Harleen Thati, the Fund’s Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, writes on how creating integrated financial systems can help reach a wider consumer base in rural communities, thereby stimulating rural economies and helping alleviate poverty on the continent.
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