The Fellowship Programme of Social Finance encourages professionals with experience in insurance, microfinance and development to use their expertise to effectively provide insurance and microfinance services to low-income households and emerging customers. The objective of the programme is to match qualified professionals with organizations working on the frontiers of impact insurance and financial inclusion, bridge skill gaps, and create a new generation of professionals with experience serving low-income populations.

The projects are expected to start in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia in the second half of 2021. Projects are contingent on the COVID-19 situation and may be delayed.

Each fellow will be placed with a host organization for at least a year to support an innovation project. The project could range from the implementation of a financial product to a digital solution, public-private partnership or distribution partnership.

The Facility’s Fellowship Programme encourages professionals with substantial experience in financial services and/or insurance to use their expertise to effectively provide technical assistance to low-income markets.

Throughout the Fellowship engagement, fellows will provide technical and project management support to an innovation project of a leading practitioner in the selected country.

The Facility pre-selects the host and defines the innovation project together with the host organization. The project could range from the design of a new product, implementing a new digital technology solution, creating a public-private partnership or working with new distribution channels or service providers and will focus on one or more of the following themes:

• Bundling a range of financial services that improve consumers’ ability to manage risk

• Developing insurance solutions that extend or supplement existing social protection schemes

• Developing insurance and risk management products that benefit small-scale farmers and improve financial institutions’ risk management abilities

• Providing risk management solutions to MSMEs

• Delivering digital solutions that improve efficiencies and provide greater value to customer

Fellows will spend up to two years at a host organization, while having opportunities to support other partners/hosts throughout their fellowship.

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