Our Values -

CUSTOMER-CENTRIC:

We put our customers and beneficiaries at the center of everything we do. Our customers include financial service providers, regulators, policy makers and financial sector support organisations, and our beneficiaries include the underserved and excluded in the financial sector.

RESULTS-DRIVEN:

We strive to achieve our objectives by delivering financial resources as well as high quality evidence-based research, shared innovations and best practices – and by prioritising interventions that address systemic financial inclusion sector constraints.

CREATIVE/INNOVATIVE:

We encourage and support alternative, and new, solutions and ways of delivery.

PROFESSIONALISM:

As a team, we respectfully collaborate to deliver expertise.

TRUSTWORTHY/TRANSPARENCY:

We act honestly, openly, and with integrity.

NURTURE STAFF:

Our staff is our greatest asset and we aim to invest in building there capacity.

Latest news

Youth barriers to financial inclusion

1st November 2021

Fostering Alternative Know Your Customer (KYC) for Younger Youth in Tanzania Contributing Authors: Irene Madeje Mlola (Interim Executive Director) and Anna Jubilate Mushi, (Head of Gender and Youth), FSDT “Younger youth offer a unique opportunity to be capitalized on, but at the same time they face unique challenges that need an exceptional eye and approach […]

Gender barriers to financial inclusion

17th May 2021

Addressing Gender Barriers in the ID Acquisition Process in Tanzania By Anna Jubilate Mushi, Head of Gender & Youth, FSDT “IDs represent a huge opportunity for low-income women to realize their full potential, and are enablers of bridging the existing gender gap in political, social and ecnomic spheres; however, if the ID acuisition process is […]

LittleFish – Solutions for SMEs

20th February 2021

LittleFish in a big pond- How technology is opening up small business owners in Tanzania and other regions to larger markets and ecosystems By Victor Kyando, Communications Officer, FSDT “LittleFish aims to impact over 1 million small businesses and 5 million people in the Eastern and Southern Africa region by 2025.” LittleFish, a unified mobile platform, […]