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Lancement de l’initiative de financement pour la résilience aux changements climatiques au niveau local
February 19, 2013
Cotonou

L’initiative dénommée « Facilité de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques au niveau local » (LoCAL) a été lancée pour les pays africains ce jour à l’Hôtel Novotel de Cotonou. Le LoCAL est un mécanisme mis en place par l’UNCDF pour la mise en oeuvre des investissements aux changements climatiques par les collectivités locales. Il a été expérimenté depuis deux ans de manière concluante en Asie notamment au Bhoutan et au Cambodge. C’est ce qui a motivé son élargissement vers les pays africains.
La cérémonie de lancement des travaux a été présidée par Blaise Ahanhanzo-Glèlè, Ministre béninois de l’Environnement, de l’Habitat et de l’Urbanisme, entouré de plusieurs autres personnalités.

Bénin/ Afrique: Vers le lancement de l'initiative d'investissement pour l'adaptation des communautés locales aux changements climatiques
February 18, 2013
Cotonou

La première rencontre régionale sur l'initiative d'investissement pour l'adaptation des communautés locales aux changements climatiques (LOCAL) pour les pays africains se tiendra du 19 au 21 février à Cotonou, capitale économique béninoise, a annoncé jeudi Gilbert Poumangue, représentant résident adjoint du Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD) au Bénin. Cette rencontre, qui regroupera plus de 75 participants en provenance de neuf pays d'Afrique de l'ouest et du centre, notamment du Bénin, du Burkina Faso, du Burundi, du Ghana, de la Guinée, du Mali, du Niger, du Mozambique et de l'Ouganda, vise entre autres à présenter l'approche sur l'initiative d'investissement pour l'adaptation des communautés locales aux changements cli

Lancement de l’initiative d’investissement pour l'adaptation des communautés locales aux changements climatiques (LoCAL) pour les pays africains
February 15, 2013
Dakar / Cotonou

Le Bureau Régional de l’ United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) organise du 19 au 21 février 2013 à Cotonou au Bénin une première rencontre régionale sur l’initiative LoCAL, la facilité de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques au niveau local.
Cet atelier régional réunira pendant trois (3) jours environ soixante quinze (75) participants venus des pays comme le Bénin, le Burkina Faso, le Burundi, le Ghana, la Guinée, le Mali, la Mozambique, le Niger et l’Ouganda ; plusieurs agences du Système des Nations Unies notamment le PNUD, la Banque Mondiale, la FAO, etc. ; des institutions financières régionales comme la Banque Africaine de Développement et des partenaires bilatéraux.

Back To The Future Of Performance Reporting On Financial Services
February 12, 2013
Brussels

For those of us familiar with the development of reporting standards for microfinance institutions (MFIs) over the last two decades, there is a mild sense of déjà vu with the conversation on reporting standards for branchless banking (BB) and mobile financial services (MFS). Many different stakeholders are grappling with basic questions necessary to run these businesses, find investment opportunities and support sector development and they are experimenting with how they can measure and monitor these activities.    

Moyamba District Council commissioned new socio-economic infrastructures
February 4, 2013
Sierra Leone

On January 31st, 2012 the newly appointed Minister of Local Government and Rural development (MLGRD), Mrs Diana Konomanyi, commissioned two important socio-economic infrastructures in Moyamba District Council (Southern Province) funded by UNCDF under the Local Governance and Economic Development Joint Programme (LGED-JP): (i) a rural market place with 10 lockable stores in Sembehun in Bagruwa Chiefdom and (ii) a Community Resource Center (CRC) offering vocation training, service and goods provision in Information and CommunicationTechnologies (ICT), tailoring and carpentry for the youth. The rural market is composed of 20 open stands and 10 lockable stores. The infrastructure improves the security of the market women and the safety of their goods.

YouthStart - Two Case Studies
January 28, 2013
Dakar, SENEGAL

The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) launched YouthStart with the support of The MasterCard Foundation in 2010. YouthStart supports strong financial service providers (FSPs) in developing, piloting and rolling out youth-focused financial products, especially savings, and non-financial services (NFS) such as financial literacy or reproductive health education. Through YouthStart, UNCDF aims to increase financial inclusion to at least 200,000 youth, between 12 and 25 years of age, and to demonstrate that (a) when accessing the right combination of financial and non-financial services, youth -young women and girls in particular- are better equipped to make more informed financial decisions, build financial (e.g. savings), social (e.g.

The Global Movement of Electronic Payments at World Economic Forum
January 25, 2013
Davos, SWITZERLAND

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) hosted a roundtable discussion with Juan Jiménez Mayor, Prime Minister, Republic of Peru, Dr. Mauricio Cárdenas, Minister of Finance, Republic of Colombia and Florencio B. Abad, Secretary of Budget and Management, Republic of the Philippines.
The room was full of over 65 thought leaders from the government, banking, information technology, NGO, agriculture and consumer industries discussing the exciting global movement to shift the world away from cash to electronic payments.

Link to Success
January 24, 2013
Rwanda

Before the sky has even started to change into morning colors, Francois NZAMVUGANKIZE is awake and has begun his work day, which is baking and selling bread.  “I get up at 5am and I go to the shops to buy the materials I use for making my bread,” says Francois.  He is twenty-five years old, a husband, and father of two young children.  Up until four months ago he struggled to provide for his young family, but now they are on the road to financial security and success.                

Bangladesh to roll out an innovative financing mechanism to promote the performance of Local Government Institutions
January 23, 2013
Dhaka, Bangladesh

The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the Local Government Division (Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development & Cooperatives) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the 22nd of January, which sets the framework and procedures for Performance-Based Grants for Union Parishads (the lowest tier of Local Government in Bangladesh), supported through the Union Parishad Governance Project (UPGP).
The document was signed by the UNCDF Head of the Regional Office, David Jackson and K.M. Mozammel Haq, Additional Secretary, Local Government Division, and National Project Director.

Government of Afghanistan Joins Better Than Cash Alliance
January 22, 2013
New York

Today the government of Afghanistan announced that it has joined the Better Than Cash Alliance, an initiative founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Citi, Ford Foundation, Omidyar Network, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), U.N. Capital Development Fund, and Visa Inc., by committing to transition significant volumes of cash payments to electronic.