Recent Projects

  • National Financial Education Strategy, Rwanda

    Partners: Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR), National Bank of Rwanda (BNR), Finprobity Solutions

    Role: Team Lead

    Activities: Landscape Analysis, Stakeholder Mapping, Design of HCD Tools (In-depth interview guide), Scoping Activity/HCD with nearly 40 stakeholders across public and private sector and civil society, Facilitation of Stakeholder and Co-Creation Meetings, Development of National Financial Education Strategy and Priority Financial Education Programmes, 1 in-country mission

    Outputs: HCD Tools, Inception Report, Presentation of Field Work and Strategy Framework, National Financial Education Strategy

    Timeline: March 2022- April 2023

    Location: Rwanda

  • Youth Financial Inclusion Strategy

    Partners: Aflatoun International

    Role: Youth Financial Inclusion Consultant

    Activities: Landscape Analysis, Stakeholder Mapping, Design of HCD Tools (in-depth interview guide, survey), HCD with 10 partners and 6 Programme Managers, Lead co-creation meeting, Review and provide recommendation on financial education and digital financial services curriculum, Capacity building of staff and partners, Development of Youth Financial Inclusion Strategy

    Outputs: Best Practices and Models of Youth Financial Inclusion Report, Synthesis of Diagnostic for Youth Financial Inclusion, Youth Financial Inclusion Strategy

    Timeline: March 2022- April 2023

    Location: Global

  • Y-Initiative for Youth Finance

    Partners: Making Cents International, FMO, Y-Initiative for Youth Finance

    Role: Youth Financial Inclusion Consultant

    Activities: Landscape Analysis, Design of HCD Tools (in-depth interview guide, personas), HCD with 10 youth financial inclusion experts

    Outputs: Compendium of Global Good Practices for Youth Financial Inclusion with 10 tools and 5 personas (here)

    Timeline: January 2022 to May 2022

    Location: Global

  • Empowering Women – Lola Digital Capacity Building Program

    Partners: Accion International, Global Advisory Solutions (GLAS), Empowering Women Program

    Role: Gender and Training Consultant

    Activities: Landscape Analysis of Barriers and Challenges Female-Led MSMEs Face and Mentoring Models, Design of HCD Tools (in-depth interview guide, personas, design principles, insights), Design Mentoring Program, Capacity Building of Mentors

    Outputs: Synthesis of Primary and Secondary Research, Design Framework of E-learning modules, Virtual Bootcamps, and Mentoring Program; 3 Mentoring Sessions with 8 tools, Training Program for Mentors (Online Recording)

    Timeline: September 2021 to March 2023

    Location: Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Nigeria, India

  • Management of Using a Behaviorial Approach to Expand Financial Inclusion in Mexico

    Partners: Alliance for Financial Inclusion, CNBV, Caja Huastecas

    Role: Team Lead

    Activities: Design of HCD Tools (in-depth interview guide, FGD guide, key informant guide, personas) Facilitation of Stakeholder Meetings, Landscape Analysis, Design of Behavioral Intervention

    Outputs: Landscape Analysis Report of Barriers to Financial Inclusion in Mexico, Synthesis Report of Field Work and Behavioral Mapping, Design of 3 Youth Personas, Design of 3 Prototypes to Promote Youth Financial Inclusion

    Timeline: May 2022- December 2022

    Location: Mexico

  • National Financial Education Strategies Toolkit, Youth Financial Inclusion and COVID-19 Responses to Promote Youth Financial Inclusion in Africa

    Partners: Alliance for Financial Inclusion

    Role: Financial Capability Consultant, Youth Financial Inclusion Consultant

    Activities: Landscape Analysis of Youth Financial Inclusion, Landscape Analysis of National Financial Education Programmes, HCD with 14 AFI members, 8 industry experts and 12 youth associations

    Outputs: Special report on youth financial inclusion and COVID-19 policy responses in Africa (here), National Financial Education Strategies toolkit (here), Guideline note on how to develop, implement and evaluate national financial education strategies targeting women, youth and the forcibly displaced (here)

    Timeline: November 2020 to December 2021

  • FinVenture, a financial health digital assessment tool integrating best practices in financial capabilities, behavioral economics and UX design

    Partners: Center for Financial Inclusion

    Role: Financial Health and Gender Consultant

    Activities: Design content for FinVenture, a financial health digital assessment tool integrating best practices in financial capabilities, behavioral economics and UX design

    Output: 80+ interactive digital activities across 4 modules (e.g., Money Management, Planning Ahead, Resilience, Use of Financial Services)

    Timeline: September 2020- February 2021