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March 15, 2021

New SCBF Supported Project: AwanTunai Collaborates with SayurBox – Bringing Access to Affordable Finance for Micro-SME Farmers throughout Indonesia

AwanTunai’s collaboration with Sayurbox, a sister company with similar visions to help micro-SMEs prosper, aims to digitize and optimize the agricultural supply chain and provide access to affordable financing for the 19 million MSME farmers in Indonesia, even to those without bank accounts.

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February 8, 2021

SCBF Supports the First Revenue Accretive Agent Loan Product in Africa

Agent networks in Africa have increasingly become the delivery channel of choice for MFIs as they represent a low-cost alternative to brick-and-mortar branches. However, the

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January 27, 2021

A Pioneering Survey on Financial Literacy of Smallholder Farmers in Sudan

Financial education is an essential part of smallholder empowerment. Education is a door-opener to financial inclusion, an important aspect of agricultural development. The Syngenta Foundation

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January 18, 2021

Two New VisionFund Projects to Provide Insurance to Savings Groups

World Vision and VisionFund International have been awarded grant funding from SCBF to pilot the provision of insurance services to underserved populations in Ghana and

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May 4, 2020

Building Capacity to Strengthen Access to Housing Microfinance in Ecuador

Ecuador has the 4th largest housing deficit in Latin America. More than 1.7M houses are considered inadequate (unsafe conditions, inadequate construction materials, lack of basic

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September 1, 2019

Maize and Cotton Index Insurance for Smallholder Farmers in Mali

Most Malians are unbanked. Four out of five rural Malians do not have access to financial capital to develop economic activities. The lack of data

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February 1, 2019

CareGiver Insurance Roll-out at Lead Foundation

The health insurance system in Egypt is complex and does not include the informal / unorganized sector. This indicates gaps in the penetration and effectiveness

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Supporting access to finance of women's groups in rural areas in Senegal through digital financial education, mobile banking and mini-kiosks

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2022-16
Symbiotics
Baobab Senegal SA
Senegal
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Scaling uptake of value-added hybrid micro-health insurance amongst informal sector (gig) workers and smallholder farmers

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2022-14
Democrance DMCC, Ilara Health, Emerging Markets & Paa
APA Insurance Limited
Kenya
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Caregiver solution with Baobab

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2022-13
Women's World Banking (WWB)
Baobab Senegal SA
Senegal
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Enhancing agricultural cooperatives and rural economies with digital management and finance

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2022-11
Hiveonline
Association of Women in Agriculture Kenya (AWAK)
Kenya
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Scaling Upendo Life Cash Boost - the first fully digital life insurance product for low-income segments in Zambia

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2022-09
Briisk Limited
Prudential Life Assurance Zambia
Zambia
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Embedding and scaling SympliFI's digital collateral to facilitate affordable MSME lending and financing

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2022-08
SympliFI
Nigeria
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

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