Deadline: 31 Jan 2018
Country: Ghana
The MasterCard Foundation aims to support ideas from institutions looking to deliver a financial service, product, or process to smallholder farmers in eligible African countries. Projects may be proposed by a single institution or by a partnership. However, the lead applicant must be a for-profit entity. Examples of applying institutions may include banks; insurance or leasing companies; agribusinesses; IT enterprises; and firms that facilitate increased access to financial services by persons currently excluded from them.
Eligible countries:
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Djibouti
- DRC
- Ethiopia
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Niger
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
Applications should request support of between US$250 thousand and US$2.5 million.
The application deadline is 31 January 2018.
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