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    Africa Development Bank Approves Grants for Research Efforts to Enhance Women’s Digital Access to Loans and Microinsurance

    Posted On 12 Mar 2021
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
    Comments: 12

    By Richard Adorsu-

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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra- The African Development Bank has approved two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, for $1 million and $300,000 respectively, will be disbursed through the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility, a blended finance vehicle supported by the Bank, to two financial technology firms, Pula Advisors Kenya Ltd., and M-KOPA Kenya Ltd.

    Pula Advisors will use the $1 million for research of social, cultural and economic factors that impact women farmers’ access to micro-insurance in Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. Research findings will inform the design and implementation of gender-centric insurance products. The project will be undertaken over a 3-year time frame.

    “This grant funding will be used to leverage technology to develop innovative and responsive loan and insurance products that can spur productivity and inclusion, especially for our women smallholder farmers and traders.” said Sheila Okiro, the Bank’s Coordinator for ADFI.

    The three-year project will have three phases: product development; piloting; and scaling; the outcomes are expected to benefit 360,000 farmers, 50% of them women, as well as boost farm yields by up to 30%. This will also raise incomes and enhance household and national food security.

    M-KOPA will use the $300,000 grant funding for research involving 250 women and 250 men in Kenya’s Kisumu, Eldoret and Machakos counties. The company will assess the barriers to and opportunities for women’s access to digital financial services and financial literacy programmes via smartphone, and use the research insights to design a financial services app that is relevant to small-scale women traders.

    The project, approved by the Bank on 9 February, 2021, will benefit women with no or limited access to financial services that run small informal businesses. Once developed, the mobile app will be used to pilot small loans to the women traders.

    Both projects align with ADFI’s digital products and innovation and capacity building intervention pillars as well as its cross-cutting focus on gender inclusion, a thematic running across all its interventions. The PULA grant approval meets African Development Bank strategic goals, including the Ten-Year Strategy, two High-5 priority areas, feed Africa and improve the quality of life for Africans and the financial inclusion strategies of Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia. The M-KOPA project is aligned with the Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) program that seeks to increase access to finance for women.

    ADFI is a pan-African initiative designed to accelerate digital financial inclusion throughout Africa, with the goal of ensuring that 332 million more Africans, 60% of them women, gain access to the formal economy. The Facility was formally launched in June 2019 at the Bank’s Annual Meetings in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Current ADFI partners are the French Development Agency (AFD); the French Treasury’s Ministry of Economy and Finance; The Government of Luxembourg’s Ministry of Finance; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and the African Development Bank, which also hosts the fund.

     

     

    For New Africa Business News Richard Adorsu Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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    12 Comments

    1. Calvin March 12, 2021 at 4:40 am Reply

      Thank you very much for the daily newsletters. Please continue feeding us with Mama Afrika’s news. Johannesburg in SOUTH AFRICA. Calvin

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    2. Samuel March 12, 2021 at 4:46 am Reply

      Thank you for the report. By enhancing our women’s digital access to Loans and microinsurance is way forward. Awesome! Samuel in Monrovia Liberia

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    3. Robert March 12, 2021 at 4:52 am Reply

      Africa development bank’s grants always goes a long way. Great Bank and thank you for reporting. Robert in Nairobi, Kenya

      • New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent March 12, 2021 at 4:54 am Reply

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    4. Baraka March 12, 2021 at 4:57 am Reply

      Congratulations Richard for the win. Thank you for the detail reporting. Gaborone in Botswana. Baraka

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    5. Emmanuel March 12, 2021 at 5:02 am Reply

      Digital access to funds, would help greatly. Abuja Nigeria. Emmanuel

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    6. Paul March 12, 2021 at 5:09 am Reply

      Investing to all our citizens will pay off. Great investments. So happy seeing many great developments in our great Continent. Thank to modern technology and our young very intelligent youths. Afrika is changing for the best. RISING. Developments all over. Juba, South Sudan. Paul

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