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.
Focus Groups: Smallholder Farmers
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Achievements: 5,378 smallholders reached during the pilot.
Synopsis: Digitising bulk payments to small rural coffee farmers.
Focus Groups: Youth
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Achievements: 5,408 rural youth reached with DFS via their savings gorups.
Partners: CARE International Uganda
Synopsis: Mobilise and digitise Youth VSLAs in Kibaale District
Focus Groups: All
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Achievements: 98,509 individuals reached.
Partners: Yo! Uganda
Synopsis: An automatic verification mechanism for bulk payees allowing bulk payers to automatically verify payee names against their mobile phone numbers in bulk before payments are made
Focus Groups: All
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Achievements: 8,050 savings group members reached.
Partners: Aga Khan Foundation
Synopsis: Linking community-based savings groups to formal financial institutions using digital platforms
Focus Groups: All
Tools of Impact: Catalytic Grant, Technical Assistance
Synopsis: Alternative Credit Scoring to mitigate the challenge of information assymetry and open access to credit.