FINCA Canada
$12,295,805.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Congo - Kinshasa
- Fiscal year
- 2017-2018
- Agreement period
- August 15, 2017 – September 30, 2023
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-D002438001
Published purpose
The Financial Inclusion Project aims to promote the economic prosperity of low-income women and men in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo by creating a means to increase their income and savings, improve their livelihoods, raise their quality of life, and increase their revenues. Project activities include: (1) increasing the number of people, specifically women, who benefit from financial services through an extension of branches and banking agents and the provision of training; (2) increasing the use of financial services by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly those controlled by women; (3) increasing the use of agricultural financial services by agricultural entrepreneurs in Haiti; and (4) improving access to mobile savings services and medical insurance for low-income individuals, particularly women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In plain English AI-generated
This project supports financial inclusion for low-income women and men in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo by expanding access to banking, savings, credit, agricultural finance, mobile savings, and medical insurance.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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