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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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Customized loans to smallholder farmers for solar-powered water pumps

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2018-04
Venture South International
Biashara na Fedha (VS Kenya)
Tanzania
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Pilot for family insurance cover in Egypt

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2018-03
Women's World Banking (WWB)
Lead Foundation
Egypt
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Insurance process automation for Lead Foundation

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2018-02
Women's World Banking (WWB)
Lead Foundation
Egypt
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Introducing and up-scaling savings-linked endowment products

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2018-01
Guardian Life Insurance Limited & BRAC
Bangladesh
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Digital microloans pioneered by Akiba in Mexico

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2017-12
E-Savings.club
Akiba Mexico
Mexico
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

Initial insurance up-scaling of ZingSure in Zambia by reaching 1 million members of faith-based Zambia

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects
2017-11
Zingsure
Zingsure Ltd
Zambia
Fact sheet
Final report
Other report

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