The Foundation works with more than 100 partners in countries across Africa and in Canada. Together, we have improved the lives of more than 25 million people and their families.
Project: Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers in Africa Project (FISFAP)
Amount: $15.5 million
Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania
Expand access to financial services for 728,000 smallholder farmers in Tanzania, Kenya, and Ghana by using agribusinesses as a method of financing.
Support agricultural market information systems and payment innovations to serve farmers with a range of financial and non-financial services.
Share financial inclusion models and approaches through research, documentation, and dissemination.
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Project: Phase II
Amount: $10.5 million
Countries: Kenya
Provide 23,000 economically disadvantaged young people with improved soft, technical, and vocational skills, links to jobs and business opportunities, and access to financial services in the agricultural, manufacturing, and service sectors.
Support the Kenyan Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system to strengthen and scale its national skills development program, reaching an additional 39,000 youth.
Support 4,000 youth to establish or grow microbusinesses.
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Project: PASU Support
Amount: $1.5 million
Countries: Kenya
Support the national coordination of all youth employment programs in Kenya via the President’s office.
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Project: YALI – East Africa Regional Leadership Centre
Amount: $3.3 million
Countries: Kenya
Provide high-quality leadership training to young African leaders aged 18 to 35 years.
Project: Young Africa Works - Kenya (Demand side)
Amount: $21 million
Countries: Kenya
Grow micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs) through a combination of training and access to finance.
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Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Amount: $40.9 million
Countries: Kenya
Provide comprehensive scholarship support, leadership development, career guidance, and mentoring to 5,600 academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged students, enabling them to complete secondary school in Kenya.
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Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program – Phase II (Wings to Fly)
Amount: $62.6 million
Countries: Kenya
Provide comprehensive scholarship support, leadership development, career guidance, and mentoring to 5,000 academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged students, enabling them to complete secondary school in Kenya.
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Project: Young Africa Works - Kenya (Demand side)
Amount: $3.2 million
Countries: Kenya
Grow micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs) through a combination of training and access to finance.
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Project: African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI)
Amount: $7.6 million
Countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania
Improve student learning outcomes in science, math, and English subjects in secondary schools located in under-resourced regions of Kenya, Tanzania, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Increase capacity of 1,200 secondary school teachers to use computers and internet resources to improve science, math, and English subject instruction and student-centred teaching methods.
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Project: YAW-Kenya 2JIAJIRI
Amount: $98.0 million
Countries: Kenya
Provide technical training in agriculture, construction and/or manufacturing, business development services, and access to loan finance to MSMEs.
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Project: Expanding Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers
Amount: $15.5 million
Countries: Kenya, Rwanda
Improve access to financial services and markets for two million smallholder farmers living in arid and semi-arid areas in Kenya and Rwanda.
Enhance delivery of financial and non-financial services to different players within agricultural value chains using an innovative mobile solution.
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Project: eCommerce MSME Market Place
Amount: $15.9 million
Countries: Kenya
Support existing MSMEs with access to markets, working capital, and expanding opportunities through digital payments.
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