Deeply listening #AfricaTechFestival "The future of startup financing: what works?, what's next?

...the alarm app on your phone was inspired from this....

"The world's nanny"-#YouTube qz.com/youtube-has-be…

....having the freedom to fail.... is most probably the biggest ingredient for success. Unfortunately...it's a freedom enjoyed by a few.

77% of Ugandans borrow money, only 31% borrow from formal financial institutions. Smallholder farmers top the list of those excluded from access to formal borrowing. This solution leverages innovation to enable access to finance for farmers - @UNCDFdigital’s Richard Ndahiro

Are you a leader forging pathways to adapt to the effects of #climatechange? 🌏Apply to The The Rockefeller Foundation’s #RFBellagio Center Convening Program! Learn more about how you can be a part of this historic program: rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-cente…

Coup chapeau! #Rwanda

We recently hosted a roundtable alongside @UNCDFdigital on the state of digital credit in Uganda. The engagement left stakeholders with insights around current business models, consumer protection & more. Read more here: bit.ly/3qeNmmR #FinancialInclusion

Scary stats: "Of every $100 made in the last decade $54.4 was pocketed by the top 1%. Only $0.70 went to the bottom 50%". Scott Galloway. #capitalism #inequality #cloudcapital lnkd.in/d3RM5VrJ

#thinkday!

🟦 Join us for a webinar on "Linkages 2.0: How VSLA Digitalization is Opening New Pathways for Financing" on 13 June 2024, 15:00 EAT. ➡️ Learn how digitization changes informal savings & loan groups & creates new financial opportunities. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/VSLALinkagesESA

Today Rwanda is marking 30 years of liberation #Kwibohora30. Saw some very interesting related data on Rwanda 1962-1994 vs Rwanda 1994-2024

Serious social & political scientists should research this. Why do Rwandans living outside Rwanda, whose government is supposed to be a “terrible dictatorship”, go to vote in large numbers, in elections that are easily dismissed by “experts”? This is at the embassy in Kampala.

🔲 Delivering finance to the communities, businesses and geographies with the greatest development needs is a critical challenge to advancing the 2030 Agenda (#SDGs) and ensuring no one is left behind! #LDCsDay 📘 Find out how UNCDF supported in 2023: uncdf.link/AR23

Explorers.... on Germans, aJapanese, South Koreans.

🇺🇬 This Friday, at the FITSPA Uganda Fintech Conference, UNCDF will lead a conversation on how an aggregated agricultural database can transform access to finance for smallholder farmers, building on insights from our recent study. ➡️ More:  bit.ly/UGAgtechdataba… #FITSPAConf2024

Apply below! 🔹IC - Individual contractor: Policy review and technical assistance to foster a conducive policy and regulatory environment. 📍Country: Uganda 🗓️ Application deadline: 15-Jan-25, 05:00 AM (NY time) ✏️ Apply here: pulse.ly/ihwmgj4tno

Apply below! 🔸IC - Individual contractor: In-depth Assessment of Data-Driven (Digital) Credits Products / Business Models 🇺🇬 Country: Uganda 🗓️ Application deadline: 15-Jan-25, 05:00 AM (NY time) ✏️ Apply here: pulse.ly/ctxdfql75i