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Nancy Atello
Nancy is a project manager at FSD Kenya where she supports project leads in execution of interventions by leading procurement, risk and budget tracking and results management. She is a key member of the Financial Innovation for the Real Economy (FIRE) and Livelihoods project teams where in addition to her project management role, she is actively engaged in design and implementation of health finance, education and livelihoods interventions. She is a gender enthusiast and keenly involved in FSD Kenya's gender work.
Articles by Nancy Atello:
August 18th, 2025
Will the new social health insurance policy deliver universal health coverage for Kenya?
Wanza Mbole Namboya
July 29th, 2025
Can alternative health financing approaches improve Kenya’s maternal and neonatal health outcomes?
Wanza Mbole Namboya
April 30th, 2025
Improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes through a value-based care approach.
Wanza Mbole Namboya
April 25th, 2025
FinAccess Spotlight #3: When falling sick costs more than just your health
Sharon Juma
March 6th, 2025
How digital technology is helping to close the gender gap in financial inclusion in Kenya
Amrik Heyer
September 4th, 2024
Understanding pregnancy journeys for value-based care
Wanza Mbole Namboya
May 27th, 2024
Value-based care pilot explores solution for improving access to health finance for low-income women and households
Wanza Mbole Namboya
March 11th, 2024
Inspiring inclusion through women’s access to financial services and products
Nancy Atello
March 11th, 2024
Segmenting the financial services market for women in Kenya
Lukania Geraldine Makunda
January 22nd, 2024
Enhancing quality of care for women through a pharmacy trade credit facility
Wanza Mbole Namboya
May 26th, 2023
Low health insurance uptake in Kenya leaves women and low-income households vulnerable to health shocks; health finance solution offers hope
Wanza Mbole Namboya
December 13th, 2022
AfyaPoa: Enhancing uptake of health insurance through informal groups
Wanza Mbole Namboya
November 9th, 2022
Gendered analyses of Kenya’s health sector and health finance market
Nancy Atello
October 5th, 2022
AfyaCredit: Lessons from financing healthcare for Kenyan households in the informal sector
Wanza Mbole Namboya
April 7th, 2022
AfyaPoa: Lessons and insights on delivering health micro-insurance to gig workers and informal entrepreneurs
Wanza Mbole Namboya
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed an additional two million Kenyans into poverty. Health shocks are particularly devastating for low-income households, most of which lack access to insurance and hardly save towards such eventualities due to a myriad of competing daily priorities.
March 8th, 2022
A new approach to women’s economic empowerment: FSD Kenya’s Marsabit Pilot
Wanza Mbole Namboya
In 2016 FSD Kenya branched outside our core financial inclusion remit to embark on a new pilot in Marsabit county where we sought to develop a more holistic approach to economic inclusion. The ambition was to deepen the value of finance in people’s lives, moving beyond financial access and use and investing in building capabilities and market linkages to enable finance to yield stronger impacts on livelihood resilience and growth. Our aim was to reach the extreme poor and especially women, who are not well served by the financial sector.
November 10th, 2021
Can innovative finance help low-income households better cope with health shocks?
Wanza Mbole Namboya
Health shocks have a debilitating impact, especially on low-income households. Such households often lack access to appropriate finance solutions such as insurance to cushion themselves against the related non-routine income expenditures.
October 28th, 2016
Informal vs formal: The need for financial services to complement, not compete
Nancy Atello
Our third “Field Friday” exercise reveals lessons for formal financial service providers to learn from informal services.
