Financial Inclusion Beyond Mobile Money: A Sustainable Approach to Building Inclusive Financial Markets
Mobile money is essentially a digital form of physical cash stored in a digital equivalent of a physical wallet. Therefore, when one goes to a mobile money agent and exchanges physical cash for mobile money, […]
Rethinking Climate Finance through Block Farming
By Victoria Adong Abuin At the daybreak, Nabirye, a smallholder farmer in Namutumba, Busoga region, walks through her garden frowning. Her groundnuts are yielding poorly, again. The rains, once predictable, now come too late or […]
From Barriers to Opportunities: Designing Financial Services that work for Young Women.
By Anthea Paelo1, Rani Deshpande2 and Geoffrey Okidi3 Over the last decade, FSD Uganda has developed interventions targeting unserved and underserved groups such as women and youth, smallholder farmers, MSMEs, and refugees. In the next […]
Legal, Policy and Regulatory Diagnostic Review Towards Serving Financial Needs of Young People in Agribusiness and Across MSMEs
This diagnostic review of legal, policies and regulation and their influence on youth, women and people with disabilities’ access to finance in agribusiness and across MSMEs was conducted. This was with a focus on the […]
Trapped by Cash: The Hidden Cost of Being Unbanked as a Mobile Money Agent
By Andrew Tugume In the vibrant border town of Goli, in Northern Uganda, women mobile money agents are doing more than facilitating financial transactions they are keeping local and cross-border economies moving. These agents operate […]