We partner with women to forge resilient pathways out of poverty. Together, we're building a world free from extreme poverty.

KEIPhone, a Techstars portfolio company, is building an audience in Africa by providing free smartphones and data to the 70% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa that is currently unconnected. KEIPhone is the first company generating revenue in Africa through lockscreen advertising and increasing access to devices. We are changing the way Africa pays for devices and data, creating a value for a person’s time and attention.

Develop Action Plan for IFAD inclusive Rural Finance Policy.

Gender Intentional Savings Group Digitization Consultancy. Create seven standalone tools supporting gender-intentional digitization of savings groups. Consult with and present tools to the global savings group community.

Proposal Writer for Youth and Women Digital Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Equity Group Foundation is a non-profit foundation established in 2008 as the philanthropic arm of Equity Group, with the aim of transforming the lives and livelihoods of our people socially and economically. The foundation’s goal is to champion the social economic transformation for the people of Africa via economic opportunities, capacity, tools and technology. These are deployed to enable individuals and businesses to increase their productivity, resilience, health and participation in socio-economic growth.Through financial and technological innovations, we support Africans by providing the finest education and career opportunities. We offer those looking for growth opportunities, such as youth, women and entrepreneurs, a powerful methodology that sources the finest talent and intellectual capital and leverages Equity Group’s vast infrastructure and network.Equity Group Foundation International (EGFI) generates financial support and creates awareness for the Equity Group Foundation (EGF) and its mission to transform socio-economic lives in the countries in which Equity Bank operates.

At Grameen Foundation we develop breakthrough financial inclusion solutions to move the very poor, particularly women, out of poverty. Our solutions help people build assets, weather crisis and manage risk. As Executive Vice President has primary responsibility for the development of a long range strategic plan and operating implementation of that plan for Grameen Foundation.

The Fairtrade Access Fund (FAF) is a regulated evergreen fund founded in 2012. The FAF operates in Latin America, The Caribbean and Africa, offering lending products for agricultural exporters who work primarily with smallholder farms and have a strong commitment to sustainable development.

Grameen Capital is a first-of-its-kind financial advisory firm with a mandate to catalyze inclusive growth and facilitate capital market access for impact-focused enterprises across sectors. Our clients are microfinance institutions, affordable healthcare providers, low-cost education firms and other dynamic and sustainable organizations with a social development focus-from early-stage enterprises to established industry leaders.

Provide overall strategic and operational leadership to the Access Africa initiative. Access Africa is a program designed to lift people out of poverty by scaling up savings groups and creating pathways for them to join the formal financial sector through partnerships with financial service providers. As the Executive Director of Access Africa manage a team of full time staff and consultants to provide technical support to 26 countries implementing savings group programs, across West, East and Southern Africa.

A microfinance fund that makes debt, convertible debt, and equity investments in microfinance institutions (“MFIs”) in Sub-Saharan Africa. The fund was developed by CARE and MicroVest, which is serving as the fund manager, with investments from OPIC in order to meet the growing demand for financing among MFIs in Africa. The fund is focused on the Sub-Saharan Africa region with existing or prospective investments in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, andpossibly other African countries.

MicroVest is an asset manager that specializes in allocating private debt capital to Responsible Financial Institutions or “RFIs” in emerging and frontier markets.

With members active in 150 countries worldwide, The SEEP Network's vision is to promote markets that create opportunities for all people to engage and prosper.

As Director of the Economic Development Unit was responsible for overseeing the administration, programs and strategic plan for CARE USA’s work in financial inclusion, agriculture and women’s economic development. Other key duties included fundraising, marketing, and partner outreach.

Provide technical, research and administrative support to 3 year USAID-funded project for the design of a catalog of poverty assessment tools for the microenterprise industry in compliance with U.S. legislation.

Provide consulting services to IRC field offices worldwide in the development, implementation and evaluation of microfinance and income generation programs. Provide training to in-country staff and partner institutions. Assist IRC headquarters in developing resources and increasing technical capacity to support field offices. Prepare, edit and review proposals for field offices

Implemented a microfinance program in the western and northern regions of the country targeting internally displaced peoples and their host communities.