Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A)

 20 January 2022, 01 pm (Abidjan) / 02 pm (Cotonou, Paris, Frankfurt, Douala, Kinshasa) Within the context of the European Investment Bank (EIB) TA Financial sector programme for West and Central Africa, Making Finance Work For Africa (MFW4A) and the IPC, Horus and IECD Consortium are hosting a series of webinars for banks and microfinance […]

Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) in partnership with the Development and Economic Growth Research Programme (DEGRP) at ODI: A leading global affairs, are hosting a 2-webinar series based on DEGRP flagship publications. Date: 01 April 2021, 1 pm GMT (Abidjan) Background In the last decade, there has been a broad deepening of the banking […]

Making Finance Work For Africa (MFW4A) and the IPC, Horus and IECD Consortium, within the context of the European Investment Bank (EIB) TA Financial sector programme for West and Central Africa are hosting a series of four (4) webinars for banks and microfinance institutions operating in these regions. This webinar will cover topics around gender […]

This webinar session will allow panelists to discuss how precision agriculture technologies can be used to improve visibility through the crop season. Agricultural insurers in remote areas are often faced with stark choices with regard to onboarding of farmers, monitoring the season’s progress and conducting claim assessments. Scalable registration of numerous farmers as well as […]

This webinar is based on a study by Geopoll released in November 2019 and entitled “The State of Financial Services in Sub-Saharan Africa – How Youth in six African Nations Spend, Save and Invest”. Geopoll is a mobile-based services provider offering surveying solutions to financial sector stakeholders in order to gather data about the financial […]

As part of its series of activities on the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic, Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) is hosting a webinar on Development Finance Institutions’ (DFIs) response in support of African Financial Sector following the pandemic. This webinar follows a previous MFW4A webinar hosted by African financial sector practitioners and business […]

Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) is hosting a webinar on the impact of current health crisis on the African financial sector. The session will discuss in forward-looking terms how ongoing market turmoil and trade disruptions due to concerns about the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy will affect the African financial sector. […]

The fundamentals of Islamic Banking and Finance and particularly the aspects of no-interest and profit and loss are such that the industry cannot fully be governed by the same regulations that govern conventional banking. In most jurisdictions today, the legal and regulatory framework of the Islamic financial industry has been formed in line with international […]

Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A), Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSD Africa) and Nathan Associates are pleased to present a webinar based on, Agricultural Leasing in sub-Saharan Africa document. Although leasing is a growing form of asset finance in African markets, its use in agriculture remains a nascent concept. Why is this the case? How could […]