The 2016 Innovation Competition is currently open. This competition aims to support financial service providers or institutions with innovative financial products, services or delivery platforms that can create or ease access to finance for people living in rural Africa.

Is your idea innovative?

• What is the potential for the proposed idea to change access to financial services in rural Africa?
• In what way is the proposed idea new? Is it new to the financial services sector, new to the country, new to the continent? Perhaps it is even a first in the world?
• To what extent does the proposed project reach financially underserved markets?