Mastercard and RISE Mark Significant Progress in Wage Digitalization Project, Reaching 24,000 Garment Workers Across Egypt
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and RISE announce significant progress of their joint wage digitalization project in Egypt, which aims to enhance financial inclusion and resilience among garment workers.
EBRD and Consortium of Investors Acquire Egypt’s Tamweely Microfinance
The acquisition will support Tamweely’s domestic growth strategy and boost its competitiveness and resilience, enabling it to become one of the country’s leading microfinance providers.
Increasing Financial Inclusion in Egypt’s Garment Sector through Responsible Wage Digitalization: Benefits for Workers and Business
This report sets out the results from supporting nine factories in five governorates in Egypt with over 24,000 workers with wage digitalization and enabling workers to access, use and benefit from their accounts.
CIB, ADIB Egypt Promote Financial Inclusion With Youth-Focused Services
The initiative aims to raise awareness among young people about digital literacy, enhance digital financial inclusion, and encourage youth to join the financial sector and benefit from banking products and services.
Catalyst for “Transformative Change”: Female Entrepreneurship Fund Launched
The Female Entrepreneurship Fund is a specialized investment vehicle that channels resources from institutional investors to support women entrepreneurs in the Central American Integration System (Sica) region.
Connecting the Remittance Ecosystem in the Northern Triangle
This white paper examines the barriers and opportunities to boosting digital remittances in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Afghanistan: World Bank, ARTF Support Access to Finance for Small Businesses, Women’s Economic Inclusion with $16M Grant
The grant will support the Empowering Microfinance and Enterprises for Resilience and Growth (EMERGe) Project and will be provided directly to the Aga Khan Foundation USA.
South Africa's Sava and Mastercard Partner to Support Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises
Through the partnership, the two entities will provide small businesses in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt with an online platform, powered by SAVA’s Payment Transaction System, that includes digital bank accounts and accounting integration tools.
USAID Launches Rural Financial Inclusion Program in Guatemala
As part of the program, USAID will provide an initial investment of over $6 million to launch a Feed the Future rural financial inclusion program in Guatemala.
Developing an Impact Monitoring System for Sida’s Guarantee Instrument
This publication shares key learnings from case studies from Guatemala and Bosnia and Herzegovina and illustrates their contribution to co-designing an impact monitoring system for Sweden’s guarantee instrument.