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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Project library

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

Promotion and pilot of appropriate credit for access to low-pressure irrigation technologies for small producers of high-yield crops

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects

2017-09

iDEal Tecnologías & Cía. Ltda

Financiera Fundeser S.A.

Nicaragua

Initial insurance up-scaling of ZingSure in Malawi

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects

2017-07

Zingsure

Zing Life Assurance Company Ltd.

Malawi

Rolling out innovative channel distribution financial services to rural clients of Advans

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects

2017-06

Symbiotics

Advans Ghana Savings and Loans

Ghana

Building Capacity to strengthen access to housing microfinance in Nicaragua

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects

2017-05

Habitat for Humanity International

FUDEMI & FUNDENUSE

Nicaragua

Product up-scaling of solar lending in Kenya

Innovation / Product Upscaling Projects

2017-04

Venture South International

Biashara na Fedhu (VS Kenya)

Kenya

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