Approved Projects
E-Saving club Akiba Mexico
The aim of this project is to digitalise the loan origination process of the partner financial institutions Pretmex and offer Akiba´s own digital MicroCreditLine product (MCL). Online lending is a relatively new concept in Mexico with only few providers covering mainly the consumer lending sector and at usury rates. The MCL product specifically targets the funding need of low-income employees who often have to borrow at very high costs and unreasonable conditions when facing short-term financial emergencies. >> more
J.Wipf Guardian Life Insurance Limited (GLIL) Bangladesh
The SCBF support of one year is meant to enhance the partners´ GLIL and BRAC capacities to develop and develop microinsurance products, one preferably with savings-linked component, offered to one or more segments of BRAC´s diverse and vast membership (it has the largest microfinance programme in the world). >> more
WWB Lead Foundation Egypt (automation)
The main objective of the project is to transform Lead´s microinsurance operations to make them digital and automated, through the design and development of a fraud robot able to detect fraudulent insurance pay-out claims. Upon project completion, the insurance process automation solution should enable Lead to expand its client base from currently 180,000 to 318,000 clients in 2019 and manage high scale operations without adding more staff. >> more
WWB Lead Foundation Egypt (family)
Lead Foundation aims to develop at least one family health insurance product and roll it out to its currently over 200,000 clients and their families, expanding its beneficiary base to 950,000 by end of 2019, and thus enhancing their resilience in face of unexpected health crises and hospital emergencies. >> more
Venture South Biashara na Fedha Tanzania
Biashara na Fedha and Simusolar aim to develop, test and scale up customised loan products designed to finance the acquisition of solar-powered water pumps by smallholder farmers around Lake Victoria, reaching out to 1,000 farmers by 8.2019, and intending to reach 17,000 farmers three years after the support. The customisation will take into account the crop cycles and smallholder farmer credit profiles. >> more
Symbiotics MicroCred DRC
The purpose of the product up-scaling support is to upgrade the existing loan products of MicroCred, esp. the roll-out of the local currency loan product in Congolese Francs (CDF). Secondly, the support will be focused on developing and launching deposit products, and providing to clients financial education on the spectrum of services (savings and loans). This is expected to lead to outreach of 7,500 CDF clients (2,000 new) and 17,000 deposit clients by end of 2018. >> more
Habitat Banco Solidario Ecuador
Banco Solidario plans to redesign its existing housing microfinance product and adjust mobile tools to support credit officers in selling the products, improving the living conditions of at least 1,794 clients and their families at project end and 4,000 clients by December 2021. The technical assistance will also trigger a capital investment of USD 11 mil. for home improvements. >> more
Habitat COAC JA Ecuador
COAC JA (Calculadora de Ahorro y Credito – Jardin Azuayo) aims to redesign its existing housing microfinance product and introduce a new micro-mortgage product, improving the living conditions of at least 2,000 / 500 clients and their families with the housing microloan and mortgage product (respectively) at project end and 6,000 / 1,200 clients by December 2021. Upon project completion, app. USD 8 mil. capital for home improvements will be mobilised. >> more
Habitat LOMC Sri Lanka
With this technical assistance LOMC Sri Lanka aims to expand its housing portfolio by reaching out to new customer segments and build the capacity of product management within the institution. It is expected that by end of the project, 7,200 clients with families will have access to improved financial products and services for home improvement and app. USD 14 mil. will be invested in home improvements. >> more
Habitat LOLC Cambodia
Over 18-month period LOLC intends to introduce a new micro mortgage product and grow and manage its housing portfolio by gaining inputs on product level strategy and product management principles. Upon project completion, 2,520 families/clients will have access to improved financial products and services for home improvements/construction and approximately USD 8.4 mil. capital will be invested in home improvements. >> more
BFC NUCAFE Uganda
NUCAFE is a coffee farmer organization with a total of 200 member organizations, which translates into over 1 million individual coffee farmers. This financial education campaign is designed to raise awareness and understanding of agricultural insurance (Relative Evapotranspiration Index Drought Insurance) for smallholder farmers and their general financial education to improve their financial capacities and change their attitude towards formal financial services. By project end, 70,000 smallholder coffee farmers (including 17,000 young farmers and 17,000 female farmers) will be able to better manage business activities as well as understand the importance of savings and risk management tools (including agricultural insurance). >> more
