Projects at a Glance
Partner
Location & Purpose
Amount & Term
Global
Support the industry’s promotion and implementation of client protection principles among microfinance networks
$1 million
Two years
Two years
Global
Pilot and roll out a social and financial education program to disadvantaged youth in developing countries
$3.8 million
Five years
Five years
Africa
Promote entrepreneurship among youth in Africa
$1.65 million
Two years
Two years
Lebanon
Provide scholarships to financially disadvantaged students to complete university education
$9 million
Eight years
Eight years
Africa
Provide scholarships to financially disadvantaged students to complete university education
$13 million
Nine years
Nine years
Africa
Find and support innovative approaches to scaling youth employment in Africa
$6.6 million
Five years
Five years
Uganda
Further scale and document the impact of BRAC’s “microfinance multiplied” approach
$45 million
Seven years
Seven years
Global
Test a new model to move people out of extreme poverty
$1.3 million
Three and a half years
Three and a half years
Global
Technical assistance to develop, test, and document innovative microfinance products for higher education financing
$600,000
Five years
Five years
Ghana and Malawi
Scale secondary and financial literacy education for adolescent girls and young women
$10.1 million
Five years
Five years
Kenya
Transform outdated technical and vocational training systems
$5.8 million
Five years
Five years
Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Senegal
Expand social performance management
$1.7 million
Three years
Three years
Global
Promote and institutionalize client protection in microfinance
$4.3 million
Three years
Three years
West Africa
Expand branchless banking and inform industry practice through client research
$11.4 million
Four years
Four years
Kenya and Rwanda
Equip youth with ICT and workforce readiness skills
$5 million
Three years
Three years
Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
Provide scholarships to financially disadvantaged students to complete university education
$19.5 million
Seven years
Seven years
Morocco
Increase employability skills of unemployed and disadvantaged youth
$3.2 million
Four years
Four years
Kenya
Expand financial education to youth and women
$10.9 million
Three and a half years
Three and a half years
Kenya
Provide scholarships and leadership development for secondary school students
$41 million
Nine years
Nine years
Mali and Ecuador
Provide microfinance services and financial education to youth
$4.4 million
Three years
Three years
Tanzania
Establish and demonstrate a financially self-supporting secondary school model
$5.7 million
Five years
Five years
Sub-Saharan Africa
Generate best practices to scale mobile financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa
$3.8 million
Three years
Three years
Global
Develop the mobile and development intelligence (MDI) web platform
$1.5 million
Three years
Three years
Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya
Provide access to housing microfinance products and support services to low-income households
$6.6 million
Five years
Five years
Sub-Saharan Africa
Increase financial services to 5.3 million unbanked people in Sub-Saharan Africa
$37.4 million
Five years
Five years
Global
Expand the global evidence-base and disseminate findings of how young people transition from school to work
$14.6 million
Five years
Five years
Egypt
Provide youth with skills and networks needed for employment or self-employment
$5.1 million
Four years
Four years
Global
Identify and provide fellowships for entrepreneurs from developing countries to promote a model of entrepreneurship-led development
$20.9 million
Ten years
Ten years
Global
Create and deliver a capacity-building curriculum in youth
financial services
$1.6 million
Three years
Three years
Egypt and Morocco
Expand microfinance to young people
$5 million
Five years
Five years
Global
Increase transparency in the microfinance industry and expand coverage in Africa
$2 million
Three years
Three years
Global
Promote responsible financial services to underserved populations through data analytics and market insight
$6 million
Four years
Four years
Sub-Saharan Africa
Expand access to microfinance in rural areas
$8 million
Four years
Four years
Mali
Test and demonstrate how consolidation can help rural MFIs in Mali scale up their outreach
$1 million
Two years
Two years
Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Niger
Provide microfinance services and financial education to youth
$4.1 million
Four years
Four years
Kenya
Expand Samasource’s online program to train and employ disadvantaged young people in Kenya
$5.3 million
Five years
Five years
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Egypt, Malawi, and Uganda
Improve opportunities for young people in the agricultural sector
$39.8 million
Five years
Five years
Sub-Saharan Africa
Strengthen Microfinance Associations (MFAs) in Sub-Saharan Africa
$7.6 million
Four years
Four years
Tanzania and Uganda
Demonstrate and expand a practical non-formal skills training model for out-of-school youth
$5.6 million
Five years
Five years
Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda
Create employment opportunities for rural disadvantaged youth throughout agricultural value chains
$11.5 million
Four years
Four years
Global
Design a global Master’s Program for health and sustainable development
$1 million
Two years
Two years
Global
Develop an innovative Symposium on Financial Inclusion and update Boulder’s microfinance programs
$11.3 million
Five years
Five years
Global
Train microfinance professionals
$3.9 million
Five years
Five years
Global
Improve the transition to employment for upper-year university students and recent alumni in developing countries
$5.9 million
Five years
Five years
Sub-Saharan Africa
Increase access to microfinance, particularly savings services
$23.5 million
Six years
Six years
Sub-Saharan Africa
Spur innovation and delivery of microfinance for youth in Africa
$12 million
Four and half years
Four and half years
Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya
Test and support the development of holistic approaches for enabling economic opportunities for disadvantaged youth
$3.4 million
Six years
Six years
Kenya and Uganda
Test and document credit and savings products for water and sanitation
$3.6 million
Four years
Four years
Haiti
Provide relevant employment training and job placement program to unemployed Haitian youth
$4 million
Five years
Five years
Project Categories
Ugandan women meet with BRAC community organizer
BRAC’s “microfinance multiplied” model enables women to use their loans to increase their incomes and build assets while stimulating economic and social development in their community. At the center of this model are groups of women that meet weekly with a BRAC community organizer who makes loans and collects repayments. These groups are the primary distribution channel for technical assistance to their communities. For example, BRAC trains some women to become model farmers, who in turn teach good farming practices to other members of their village. Other group members are trained as health promoters who share their knowledge and sell their services in their community.
