Ann Miles, Director of Financial Inclusion, Appointed to CGAP Executive Committee
The MasterCard Foundation announced today that Ann Miles, Director of Financial Inclusion, has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global partnership of leading donor organizations working to advance financial inclusion for the world’s poor. Read More
SNV Launches New Youth Project in Tanzania
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, is today launching its five year (2013 – 2018) Opportunities for Youth Employment (OYE) project in Tanzania at their offices in Chole Road, Masaki in Dar es Salaam. Read More
Are Savings Groups the Frontiers of Financial Inclusion?
In Sub-Saharan Africa, people in rural and remote communities have pooled their money through savings groups to save for household needs and to insure against emergencies. Despite their near ubiquity, very little is known about them. Only recently have NGOs begun exploring how savings groups could fit in larger developmental priorities around financial inclusion. Read More
Launch of Call for Proposals for African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarships Fund
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, today launched a call for proposals from eligible Canadian organizations to implement the African Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarships Fund. Read More