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: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Amount: $25.0 million
Countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Pan - African, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania
Enable 500 qualified, yet economically disadvantaged African students to complete a master’s-level education in mathematical sciences.
Support the AIMS Secretariat to increase the profile and prioritization of STEM education and research across the continent.
Expand the Foundation’s network of partners committed to achieving its vision of education as a catalyst for social and economic transformation.
Improve the quality of secondary-level teaching in science and mathematics.
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Project: Agricultural Finance for Smallholders and Related Businesses
Amount: $14.0 million
Countries: Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
Increase productivity and market access of 490,000 smallholder farmers so they can improve their livelihoods.
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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: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program – Phase II
Amount: $22.0 million
Countries: Ghana
Support 150 academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged students in completing their university education at the master’s level, while fostering their leadership skills and their capacity to give back to their communities.
Build institutional linkages with two Ghanaian universities and strengthen the capacity of 42 of their faculty to provide mentorship and support to Scholars.
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Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Amount: $13.0 million
Countries: Ghana
Support 200 academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged African students in completing their university education, while fostering their leadership skills and their capacity to give back to their communities.
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Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program – Phase II
Amount: $25.6 million
Countries: Ghana
Support 240 academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged students in completing a university education, while fostering their leadership skills and their capacity to give back to their communities.
Strengthen a national network of Scholars and institutions committed to the Scholars Program’s vision.
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Project: Financial Inclusion on Business Runways (FIBR)
Amount: $8.7 million
Countries: Ghana, Tanzania
Demonstrate that small businesses can effectively offer financial services that advance access to and regular usage of financial services by 5,000 people living in poverty in Africa.
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Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Amount: $41.7 million
Countries: Ghana
Support academically talented, yet financially disadvantaged students from Africa in completing their secondary education (4,000 students) and university (2,000 students), while fostering their leadership skills and their capacity to give back to their communities.
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Project: Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
Amount: $38.2 million
Countries: Ghana, Malawi
Support 5,000 rural girls (1,500 in Ghana and 3,500 in Malawi) in fulfilling their potential through education and development of leadership skills in northern Ghana and in Malawi, preparing them to transition beyond secondary school.
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Project: YALI – West Africa (Anglophone) Regional Leadership Centre
Amount: $3.3 million
Countries: Ghana
Provide high-quality leadership training to young African leaders aged 18 to 35 years.
Project: Youth Forward
Amount: $18.5 million
Countries: Ghana
Provide 23,700 economically disadvantaged youth in Ghana with the training and skills required to secure employment or self-employment opportunities in the construction sector. Global Communities leads the Youth Inclusive Entrepreneurial Development Initiative for Employment (YIEDIE) consortium, which is part of Youth Forward.
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Project: Partnership for Financial Inclusion
Amount: $37.4 million
Countries: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Pan - African, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia
Increase access to financial services for 5.3 million poor clients by scaling up IFC’s strongest cohort of microfinance institutions.
Innovate and expand successful business models in mobile financial services and facilitate exchange of global best practices.
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