Foundational Work
Synopsis: FSDU supported the development of Uganda’s first National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS).
Synopsis: We provided support around inputs and amendments to the FIA Bill, and subsequent regulations that emerged from the bill.
Synopsis: Review the legal and regulatory framework to the Chattels Securities Act 2014.
Digital Economy
Focus Groups: All
Type: Presentation deck
Synopsis: Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Uganda, in partnership with the Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU) and Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) hosted a validation workshop where highlights from a study on how the COVID-19 lockdown affected savings groups were shared.
Focus Groups: All
Partners: Bank of Uganda
Focus Groups: All
Partners: Equity Bank Uganda Ltd, Future Link Technologies
Digital Finance for Quality Jobs
Focus Groups: Refugees
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Achievements: 8,703 saving group members have received productive credit to date, 74% who are women. 308 savings groups have received loans thorugh this intervention.
Partners: VisionFund Uganda
Synopsis: Implementing partner VisionFund Uganda piloted a unique wholesale credit model for savings groups in West Nile region.
Focus Groups: Smallholder Farmers
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant
Achievements: Currently, 1,170 smallholder farmers and 10 cooperarives have been given access to credit.
Partners: Emata
Synopsis: Digitize dairy cooperatives and providing them with a system that will allow them to lend based off these records.
Focus Groups: Refugees
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Partners: Rural Finance Initiative (RUFI)
Synopsis: Providing refugees with both credit and savings products by tapping into exiting norms (VSLAs) and digitising them.
Digital Finance For Quality of Life
Focus Groups: Refugees
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Achievements: 14,051 refugees have received digital payments, 50% of who are women.
Partners: Equity Bank Uganda Ltd.
Synopsis: Digitising humanitarian payments for efficiency and leveraging agent networks to provide merchants in settlements with credit.
Focus Groups: All
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant
Partners: Xeno
Synopsis: Scaling out investment opportunities to individuals with feature phones via USSD.
Focus Groups: All
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Achievements: As as Sept. 2021, ClinicPesa had onboarded close to 1,500 healthcare facilities.
Partners: clinicPesa
Synopsis: Provide access to healthcare financing for uninsured Ugandans through a digital healthcare micro-loan and savings platform.
Digital Finance For Sustainable Futures
Focus Groups: All
Partners: BrightLife, Finca
Expanding formal savings and credit service among lower-income earners thorugh access to energy products.