MSME FINANCE BREAKING BARRIERS HACKATHON
In furtherance of its efforts to bridge the gap in access to formal credit for Micro, Medium, and Small-Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria, Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access in partnership with GIZ is organising an innovative virtual hackathon challenge tagged: ‘MSME Finance…Breaking the Barriers’. The hackathon is designed to facilitate the development of tech applications […]
CALL FOR DESIGN CONSULTANT
About EFInA Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) is a financial sector development organization that promotes inclusive finance in Nigeria. EFInA is renowned within Nigeria’s financial sector for providing thought leadership toward achieving financial inclusion and championing the unbanked. Data from the EFInA Access to Financial Services in Nigeria surveys and other research has served as […]
Internship Resourcing Placement
Are you interested in gaining work experience? We are searching for driven, detail oriented and talented interns with great growth capacity to learn and deliver on projects in a timely manner. Placements are available in 2 of our core business areas of research and programs. Key areas of focus include: – Research – literature review, […]
How Social Dynamics Influence Agent Operations in Nigeria
On May 6, 2021, EFInA hosted a workshop to discuss an ethnographic study on financial service agents in Nigeria as well as some of the findings from the 2020 Financial Service Agent Survey. The ethnographic study explored how social factors and gender dynamics influence financial service agents’ business operations, customer engagement and agent deployment models. […]
She is a Woman – Experiences of Women in Leadership
Women have been at the forefront of the COVID-19 crisis, as health care workers, caregivers, innovators, community organisers, and as some of the most exemplary and distinguished national leaders in the fight against the pandemic. The crisis has shown both the necessity of women’s contributions to the growth and development of society and the disproportionate […]
Why we Choose to Challenge
Since EFInA began measuring financial access in 2008, we have seen steady, incremental progress in overall financial inclusion levels, with millions more Nigerian adults now using financial services. However, when we look at gender and financial access, a different pattern emerges. More women than men are financially excluded, creating what we call a “gender gap” […]
EFInA’s Workshop on Sex-disaggregated Data for Women’s Financial Inclusion
EFInA collaborated with Data2X and Financial Alliance for Women to deliver a workshop on sex-disaggregated data for improved women’s financial inclusion. The objective of the workshop was to highlight insights on how Financial Service Providers (FSPs) can use sex-disaggregated data to develop and roll out products to key target groups, especially to open up new […]
Using Personas to Design Solutions for Financially Excluded Women
As any tall person who has flown in Economy class will tell you, solutions that are created for an average customer do not work well for everyone. When we do not design financial solutions specifically for women, we can unintentionally exclude them, particularly since more men than women currently use banks and therefore the “average” […]
EFInA COVID-19 Grant Request for Proposals
EFInA COVID-19 Grant Request for Proposals: Supporting solutions that can mitigate the far-reaching impact of COVID on the low-income population in Nigeria EFInA is pleased to announce its tenth request for proposals (RFP 10) for the COVID-19 Grant. This grant will focus on supporting solutions that can mitigate the far-reaching impact of COVID-19 on low-income […]
Powering Resilience and Post COVID-19 Restoration through Digital Finance
In Nigeria like in many countries, the COVID-19 outbreak burgeoned into a major crisis, leaving its mark beyond the health hazard consequences. The pandemic brought about immense personal and financial suffering especially for low-income households, communities, businesses and the economy at large.[1] Before the pandemic, Nigeria was already on a sluggish recovery from the recession […]
