Digital Field Automation Case Study
The Digital Field Automation (DFA) is an automated account opening and loan application program which has increased access to financial services for individuals and small business owners living in rural areas. The DFA was developed by FINCA Microfinance Bank Tanzania Limited in partnership with the Financial Sector Deepening Trust.
Mfumo Jumuishi Case Study
Mfumo Jumuishi – A model borne from the need to overcome constraints to financial & economic progress for smallholder farmers. Life of a smallholder farmer can be financially desperate and lonely as the smallholder farmer fends for themselves to make economic gains in a world of agriculture value chains and commodities that is increasingly cut-throat […]
Story of Digital Finance in Tanzania
Financial inclusion, as defined by the World Bank, is when “individuals and businesses have access to useful and affordable financial products and services that meet their needs – transactions, payments, savings, credit and insurance – delivered in a responsible and sustainable way” (World Bank, 2017).
Vijana na Huduma Jumuishi za Kifedha
Vijana huchukuliwa kuwa ni soko gumu la kuhudumia kwa maana ya kutoa huduma za fedha, kwani wengi wao hawana Vitambulisho vinavyoweza kukidhi matakwa ya “Mjue Mteja Wako”, pengine hii inatokana na kiwango cha chini cha miamala inayosababishwa na viwango vyao vidogo vya ushiriki kiuchumi, hivyo kutokuwepo kwa faida zilizo dhahiri za uwekezaji kwa watoa huduma […]
Youth Financial Inclusion
They are considered a diff cult market to serve in terms of financial service provision, as many do not have sufficient ID to fulfil Know-Your-Customer requirements, presumably low transaction volumes due to their low levels of economic engagement and as such an unclear return of investment for most providers.
Equity Bank Agent Banking and Financial Education Programme Across Tanzania
The Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT) combined forces with leading East African financial services provider Equity Bank to expand the bank’s retail agency banking network in Tanzania. This would make more financial access points available to people being under-served because of their distance away from bank branches, their poverty or marginalisation. It would make it […]
FSDT Case Study – Boresha Maisha Community-based Savings Group programme in Lindi and Mtwara
The Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT) funded a near five-year programme to bring basic financial services in the form of community-based savings groups (CBSGs) to some of Tanzania’s poorest people in the southern regions of Lindi and Mtwara.
EGM Case study – Springfield Centre
Since January 1949, when a U.S. President Truman speech ushered in the modern era of international development, successive generations of theorists and practitioners have wrestled to determine the best means to deliver international development assistance to the world’s poor.
The IFC Tanzania Mobile Financial Services Interoperability Case Study
Interoperable standards, a set of agreed rules and standards facilitating customer transactions among service providers, has been a focus area in the mobile financial services industry for several years.