Wanza Mbole Namboya
Wanza leads FSD Kenya’s economic inclusion work. Her motivation is ensuring that all Kenyans, especially women, have the agency and access to the resources that they need to effectively contribute to and optimally benefit from economic development. She has spent the last two decades facilitating financial inclusion for the lower segment of the market, which is either financially excluded or under-served, through various innovations. She is also the Gender lead at FSD Kenya, supporting the team in integrating gender into all programme activity.
Articles by Wanza Mbole Namboya:
September 9th, 2020
Combining new and traditional mechanisms in Northern Kenya to cope during COVID-19
Wanza Mbole Namboya
In mid-July we interviewed a subset of FSD Kenya/CARE’s Building Livelihoods programme beneficiaries in Northern Kenya to understand the extent to which resources built up through the programme are supporting resilience of beneficiary households during COVID-19, and how these compare and interact with traditional pastoralist coping mechanisms.
August 1st, 2020
Understanding drivers of resilience in Northern Kenya in the time of COVID-19: Part 1
Jody Delichte
Over the past four years, FSD Kenya’s Building Livelihoods programme in Northern Kenya has explored how extremely poor households can be transitioned out of poverty and into sustainable livelihoods through stronger engagements with markets.
A big question amidst the current COVID-19 has been, how are community-based finance models fairing?
July 8th, 2019
What solutions would make a difference in education finance?
Wanza Mbole Namboya
Education presents an opportunity for poor households to break out of the poverty cycle in future. What are some of the interventions and finance solutions that have made a difference in education finance?
Education is the top priority for Kenyans according to FinAccess Household Survey 2019. Poor households particularly attach high value to educating their children.
May 15th, 2019
Building livelihoods using inclusive finance for chicken farming
Wanza Mbole Namboya
FSD Kenya set out to explore ways of using finance to build livelihoods of poor households in Kitui. The survey identified indigenous poultry and pulses as the agriculture value chains with the greatest opportunity for low-income households.
April 25th, 2018
Tackling poverty in rural Kenya through community-owned village banks
Wanjiku Karanja
Why FSAs are the preferred financial service providers in Kitui.
The popularity of graduation programmes as the means to ending extreme poverty is growing globally.
