The Last Mile This report explains how Kaduna State moved 800,000 adults into the formal financial system by linking identity, payments, and government programmes, expanding agent networks, and prioritising women’s inclusion between 2021–2024 DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT ...
How does a sub-national government go about building Digital Public Infrastructure? This playbook tries to answer that question by taking a deep exploratory dive into Kaduna State's thinking, process and tries to document it in a step by step manner, such that it can be...
For the purpose of this blog post, we will describe Social selling as the practice of utilising social media channels to engage potential customers and promote products or services. As social selling relies on the power of social networks, one can say that social selling has...
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How do you build a Digital Financial Solution (DFS) for a woman who primarily saves money by buying beans with her excess cash, and storing it at home as her savings, then selling it (or parts of it) when she needs cash? This approach may seem...
In early 2022, we explored the experiences of urban and peri-urban women in Kaduna when interacting with DFS (digital financial services). We spoke with over 40 women (through focus group discussions and in depth interviews) from lower-income demographics, including a student, homemaker, trader and businesswomen,...
Introduction: Digital financial services (DFS) comprises a broad range of financial services accessed and delivered through digital channels, including payments, credit, savings, remittances and insurance. It also includes mobile financial services. In Nigeria, there has been a rapid increase over the past couple of years of...