📋 Tender Overview
The Swiss Capacity Building Facility (SCBF) is a Swiss technical assistance financing facility, uniting the expertise of key actors of the Swiss financial sector and of partners engaged in financial inclusion. The SCBF fosters the innovation and massive scaling-up of financial services and products centred on the financial inclusion of low-income women, vulnerable households, smallholder farmers and MSMEs in the Global South. Financial inclusion enables reaching the SDGs.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Southern and Eastern Africa
Agriculture & food security
Agricultural financial services
01.10.2020 - 31.12.2026
CHF 8’000’000
Background Today close to one third of adults - 1.7 billion people – still don’t have an account at a bank, at a microfinance institutions or at a mobile money provider. A disproportionate share of the unbanked are poor, and are more likely to have low education attainment. The gap between men and women in developing economies remains unchanged since 2011, at 9 percentage points. The majority of the population in the global South has no insurance cover to mitigate their multiple livelihood risks. In all SDC partner countries access to finance constitutes a strategic bottleneck for low-income people, notably low-income women and smallholder farmers to develop their economic potential as producers, labourers and consumers to achieve more resilient livelihoods.There is empirical evidence that access to client-oriented formal financial products and services offered in a responsible manner has led to increased income and employment, better health and education and empowerment of women. Increased stability of the financial sector in emerging countries is an important enabler for direct investments (for example of the Swiss impact sector) and therefore in the Swiss interest. The expertise of the Swiss financial sector is internationally renowned and constitutes the backbone of the high quality standard of the SCBF. Increased stability of the financial sector in emerging countries is an important enabler for direct investments (for example of the Swiss impact sector) and therefore in the Swiss interest. The expertise of the Swiss financial sector is internationally renowned and constitutes the backbone of the high quality standard of the SCBF. Increased stability of the financial sector in emerging countries is an important enabler for direct investments (for example of the Swiss impact sector) and therefore in the Swiss interest. The expertise of the Swiss financial sector is internationally renowned and constitutes the backbone of the high quality standard of the SCBF.
Objectives Improved economic well-being of the low-income and vulnerable households, smallholder farmers and micro, small and medium enterprises.
Target groups Low-income women and vulnerable households, smallholder farmers and micro, small and medium enterprises, vulnerable youth, refugees and migrants.
Medium-term outcomes 1. Increas
