Financial Sector Deepening Tanzania (FSDT) is looking to sponsor one Agri-FinTech from Tanzania to attend the 8th AgriFin Learning Event (ALE) in Nairobi, Kenya, from October 15th to 16th, 2024. This year’s event theme is “Enabling Rural Economy: Creating Lasting Impact for the Digital Ecosystem in Africa.”
If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, kindly fill out the form below. Please note, for an organization/company to be considered for this opportunity, it must meet the following minimum requirements by the time of submitting this request:
- Be in operation for at least 2 years
- Demonstrate market traction (paying customers/clients).
- Have more than one employee.
The deadline for submission is Wednesday, 30 September 2024 at 17h00 EAT.
About FSDT:
Established in 2004, the Financial Sector Deepening Tanzania (FSDT) is a donor-funded financial sector market facilitator that aims to achieve poverty reduction through a transformative financial sector that offers inclusive and sustainable financial solutions to improve the livelihood, wellbeing, and empowerment of underserved Tanzanians. FSDT’s work is guided by the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach, which aims to develop market systems that benefit the underserved, offering them capacities and opportunities to improve their lives.
Currently, our main target markets are women and youth, who have been identified as the most financially excluded market segments in the country. FSDT is dedicated to supporting the financial sector in delivering inclusive, quality and sustainable financial solutions that meet the financial needs of women and youth.
Through FSDT facilitation, we hope to achieve the following changes in the market:
- Improved policies, legal and regulatory frameworks that promote gender equality as well as economic and financial opportunities for women and youth.
- Improved availability of relevant financial sector infrastructures that will equip the financial sector players and other stakeholders with the ability to meet the needs and aspirations of women and youth.
- Financial service providers developing and scaling innovative and responsive financial solutions/tools for women and youth to promote equality, empowerment, and wellbeing.
- Improved confidence and capability of women and youth to demand and use financial solutions.
About Mercy Corp AgriFin:
Mercy Corps AgriFin programming works with a network of more than 150 partners across Africa to support the development of digitally enabled products and services for smallholder farmers (SHFs) in order to increase their productivity, incomes, and resilience by 50% while reaching at least 40% women. AgriFin helps its partners to design, test, and scale digitally enabled services, derisking innovation and supporting inclusive service delivery. Since 2015, AgriFin has completed more than 200 engagements with partners now reaching more than 16 million smallholders.
