ILO’s Social Finance Programme 2021

Publish Date: Jul 11, 2021

Deadline: Jul 25, 2021

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.

The opportunity The ILO’s Social Finance Programme invites applications from qualified professionals with expertise in insurance, microfinance and development for inclusion in its Fellowship Programme roster and for potential placements in Africa and Asia. The projects are expected to start at the end of 2021, although are contingent on the COVID-19 situation and may be delayed.

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Disciplines

Economics

Finance

Opportunity Types

Fellowships

Eligible Countries

Algeria

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Djibouti

Egypt

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Mali

Mauritania

Mauritius

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Rwanda

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Swaziland

Tanzania

Togo

Tunisia

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe