Grameen Foundation Programs

A young woman sits outside on a door step, holding a baby. Grameen Foundation's programs support young women with healthcare and viable livelihood options.

AccelHERate: Supporting Young Women

Goal: By 2030, we will build sustainable and viable livelihood paths for three million young women and their families.

AccelHERate In Action: In Uganda, Grameen supports young women to start new businesses as MTN Uganda mobile money agents. Agents increase their average monthly income by 43%, after just four months, allowing them to move past the poverty line benchmark.

Providing both cash-in, cash-out services and digital financial literacy training to other women in their communities encourages long-term individual and community impact.

A woman is shown smiling and wearing and a purple and white headscarf. Grameen Foundation supports women entrepreneurs like the one shown with the skills, financing, and community needed to grow and launch businesses.

InvestHER: Supporting Entrepreneurs

Goal: By 2030, increase sustainable income to move three million women entrepreneurs and their families out of poverty permanently.

InvestHER In Action: Grameen promotes women's entrepreneurship in Northern Ghana by integrating Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) onto the LedgerLink digital platform, allowing access to loans and savings from local providers.

A guarantee fund has been established to lower loan interest rates by up to 30%.

Comfort, a Ghanaian cocoa farmer, looks proudly at the camera. She's standing next to a few of her cocoa trees.

TogetHER, We Grow: Supporting Farmers

Goal: By 2030, increase the adoption of climate smart technology while building diversified income sources for three million women farmers and their families.

TogetHER, We Grow In Action: In India, Grameen saw a 230% increase in total sales turnover in Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) after our work began to increase climate smart technology usage. An additional 122% growth in female shareholders was seen and 82% of farmers improved negotiation skills and trust in FPOs.

Learn more: "Market Access eNabled by Digital Innovation” (MANDI) initiative

Grameen Foundation supports women farmers with climate-smart tools to aid in their farming production. Pictured is a Grameen agent supporting a woman farmer with digital services.

Program SAFE: Safeguarding women from Abuse in the Financial Ecosystem

Goal: Program SAFE will transform the financial system so that 100 million women and vulnerable people are safe from financial abuse and gain financial autonomy.

SAFE will build the evidence base and broad public awareness of the issue, support stakeholders to put in place critical safeguards, revise international standards on mitigating risks to customers, and leverage prior campaign experience to catalyze change at a systemic level.

Learn more about SAFE

Read our white paper on The Role of Financial Institutions in Responding to Domestic Financial Abuse

Read our white paper brief

Read our article in the World Economic Forum

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Lead Course Facilitator, Alfred Yeboah leads a group in Grameen Foundation's Exploring Power Dynamics Workshop

Sparks For Change: Rethinking Household Labor Dynamics

When families are stronger, communities and economies are stronger. Our research has shown that involving members of the family is a crucial piece of sustainable change. By engaging spouses in developing strategies for financial management, balancing household labor, and shared goals, we see a great chance of families leaving poverty forever.