Genesis was commissioned by the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) to develop a national roadmap for the digitalisation of savings and credit groups there.

Genesis was commissioned by KfW, the German Development Bank, to conduct a gender diagnostic of women SMEs’ access to finance in Côte d’Ivoire.

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) commissioned Genesis to conduct a qualitative assessment with the aim of gathering empirical evidence to support the potential benefits of incorporating a choice-based model into the G2P (government to persons) payment system.

How will Africa fare in the next 10 years and beyond? To tackle this question, Genesis was commissioned to write a research paper on what future growth scenarios could look like for the continent over the next decade. The work was background research for the African Development Bank’s strategy for 2023 to 2032.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a leading payment processor to write a concept paper that presented the consensus of the payments industry around the role and pricing of card payments in light of the introduction of emerging payment types such as instant payments.

A network of trusts working to deepen financial inclusion across a multitude of African countries commissioned Genesis to conduct an evaluation of potential funding partners.

Genesis was engaged by Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) to undertake an end of project evaluation of Accelerating growth of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) through expanding the e-commerce sector in Rwanda (or iHuzo).

Genesis was commissioned by the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) to develop a five-year strategy for its fully owned subsidiary, the Trade and Development Fund (TDF).

A pan-African trust fund contracted Genesis to investigate ways of facilitating the flow of capital to women-led enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa through a recently launched $200-million gender lens investment fund.

Genesis was commissioned to undertake a training needs assessment for MSMEs engaged in digital cross-border trade. The study spanned five COMESA member states (Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia) and was aimed at boosting the use of digital financial services for cross-border payments in the region.

Genesis conducted the final evaluation of the Savings at the Frontier (SatF) Programme, a $17.6-million partnership between Oxford Policy Management and the Mastercard Foundation.

Genesis was commissioned by Ethos Private Equity to conduct a commercial due diligence on Crossfin Technology Holdings, a South African fintech platform with assets in payments, digital lending and venture capital.

Genesis was commissioned by a global financial services company to conduct research on how to encourage the uptake of QR payments by micro merchants in South Africa, on behalf of a payment solutions provider aiming to enter this space.

In a bid to understand the factors that constrain MSME finance in Uganda, the IFC commissioned Genesis to do a study of the general MSME landscape in the country, encompassing an analysis of the demand and supply-side of the MSME finance market.

Genesis conducted a case study of an innovative, digital South African challenger bank with a group of development organisations seeking to drive financial inclusion.

Genesis was commissioned to conduct an impact assessment of the Park Road Affordable Housing Project, which was a pilot intervention of the Kenyan government’s MSME access to market programme. 

The African Development Bank commissioned Genesis Analytics to conduct a baseline study on the status of access to finance for women SMEs in 16 sampled countries across Africa to understand unique market constraints they face.

Central banks across the world are rethinking approaches to financial and payments system infrastructure. New technologies such as distributed ledgers are revolutionising the way customers, businesses and financial intermediaries interact.

Genesis was commissioned by the IFC to assess the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sectors and research the specific financial needs of MSMEs in three West African countries.

Genesis was appointed by the IFC to run a diagnostic study on the state of access to finance in Ethiopia for women traders during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

Genesis undertook a diagnostic study to inform discussions and policy adjustments to advance access to finance for women cross-border traders and the identification of firm-level barriers that limit their bankability.

Genesis was commissioned by the Ministry of Finance in Sierra Leone to assist in the design and implementation of rural payments connectivity solutions in conjunction with the deployment of a retail payments switch.

Genesis conducted a macroeconomic, financial sector policy and regulatory review to identify areas where EFInA could invest to catalyse financial inclusion in Nigeria.

Genesis Analytics was contracted by the Kenya Commercial Bank to undertake an impact evaluation of MobiGrow, a product that targets agricultural value chain actors to offer mobile-based financial inclusion and information to smallholder farmers and pastoralists in Kenya and Rwanda.

Genesis was appointed by AccessHolding to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the Access2Acces programme to understand its performance and outcomes till the mid-point of the programme, in order to document key learnings arising from implementation, and to identify areas for improvement.

Genesis, in partnership with FinMark Trust, was commissioned to carrying out an evidence-based diagnostic study of the MSME of Malawi to identify key barriers and opportunities in the market.

Genesis partnered with an international donor organisation to compare the operational processes of a group of agri-SME lenders to identify ways of serving the agricultural value chain more effectively.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a global card association to conduct a mobile-wallet partnership opportunity assessment across five countries, Ghana, Senegal, Madagascar, Cote d’Ivoire and Mauritius. This entailed assessing and mapping the payment landscape in each country and identifying key payment opportunities in the mobile money, card and digital payments space.

Genesis Analytics and Orange Business Services (OBS), with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, published a research report on Cloud Banking in Africa: The Regulatory Opportunity, which explores the potential for cloud computing to reduce the cost of technology for banks.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by the World Bank through funding from the Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO) to provide monitoring support to South Africa's City Support Programme (CSP).

Genesis Analytics completed a major review of the African Development Bank’s support strategies for small- and medium-sized businesses. This was the first project to leverage our new Francophone and African Development Bank liaison office.

Genesis was contracted to conduct a mid-term evaluation of Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P), the largest of the UNCDF’s programmes in digital finance. The evaluation was based on a theory-based approach and used the OECD DAC criteria as its guiding framework.

Genesis Analytics have been working with Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trusts on a number of projects. FDS commissioned Genesis first to re-invigorate their approach to facilitating financial-sector deepening in Uganda. We then helped FSDU develop a refreshed strategy for the next three years and then assisted them with a critical part of strategy execution related to fundraising.

Vision Fund Rwanda (VFR) commissioned Genesis to do a market assessment of youth-targeted financial services in rural Rwanda.

Genesis partnered with a private foundation to diagnose the MSME landscape in four countries to understand the key growth constraints and programming opportunities for MSME development.

Genesis and The Springfield Centre were contracted by Mercy Corps and the MasterCard Foundation to conduct the mid-term evaluation of AgriFin Accelerate (AFA), a six-year, USD 24.7-million programme in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Genesis partnered with the prominent private foundation to diagnose the MSME landscape in four countries of interest. The foundation was new to the area of MSME development and required guidance on how best to diagnose the key growth constraints and programming opportunities for MSME development.

Genesis Analytics was contracted to conduct an evaluation of the Mass Market Financial Inclusion (MMFI) project, which aims to provide access to key financial services for the unbanked populations of Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Madagascar.

Genesis partnered with FSD Kenya to develop a business case to convince 30 Kenyan banks of the value of joining PesaLink, a payment infrastructure that allows banks to offer real-time, person-to-person transfers at a low cost.

Genesis was contracted to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers in Africa Project, which is aimed at improving food security and incomes of over 700 000 smallholder farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. 

Genesis was commissioned by an international aid agency to define the scope for the design of a new Regional Financial Integration (RFI) programme aimed at improving financial integration within SADC.

Genesis partnered a prominent private foundation in the financial inclusion community to identify what it had learnt in expanding access to formal financial services across the continent.

Genesis Analytics evaluated the Microfinance Challenge Fund Rwanda and found that the Rwandan microfinance industry still needs support.

Genesis was contracted by Enterprise Partners, through DAI-Europe, to develop a financial education strategy and implementation plan for Ethiopia.

The Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSD) Kenya commissioned Genesis to carry out an in-depth analysis on how and to what extent MSMEs had been impacted by the significant developments in the country's financial sector since 2005.

Genesis has been evaluating the FSB’s consumer education department’s (CED’s) project portfolio since 2015 and has also become the FSB’s learning partner in the financial capabilities space.

Genesis was contracted by Compuscan to provide monitoring and evaluation support to the Ground Up, a  rural and agricultural finance credit bureau and identification system in Uganda.

Genesis is conducting an impact evaluation of Building Assets, Unlocking Access, a programme by Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), in collaboration with local financial service providers (FSPs) in Kenya and Uganda. 

FSDA contracted Genesis to conduct an assessment of their nine monitoring and results measurement systems and to develop bespoke training sessions to build its capacity.

Genesis was contracted to do an impact evaluation of CARE Canada’s Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Africa (POWER Africa) initiative in Rwanda. Funded by the MasterCard Foundation, POWER aims to improve financial inclusion in Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Rwanda by linking village loan and savings associations with formal financial institutions. 

Genesis conducted an evaluation of CARE International’s Scale Up project that sought to reach 300,000 new Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) members of whom 75% were to be women.

Genesis was contracted to do the final evaluation of Banking on Change, a partnership between Barclays, CARE International UK and Plan UK aimed at extending savings-led financial services to vulnerable individuals. 

FSD Kenya commissioned Genesis to study current and future effects of sharing information on credit in Kenya.

A Ghanaian bank employed Genesis to manage a project to improve various business functions in its inclusive banking unit to ensure that funding from the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Africa (FSDA) was effectively used.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned to conduct a risk assessment of the alternative distribution channel (ADC) strategy of four different financial institutions in Kenya, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Tanzania. In each instance, the project team developed a risk assessment framework and identified the kind of project risks that the institutions had experienced.  

Genesis was appointed to support a large private foundation in developing the capacity of African partners to serve its charitable objectives of providing education and alleviating poverty. 

Genesis was appointed by FSD Africa to conduct research on the remaining opportunities for development finance in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A consortium of Genesis and the International Capital Corporation (Mozambique) was awarded the contract to design an access-to-finance programme in Mozambique. This was to be based on the model of the Financial Sector Deepening Trusts that DFID has established in various African countries including Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Genesis was commissioned to undertake a review of the Africa strategy for a large non-profit organisation focused on improving access to finance across the world. Its activities include direct investments in microfinance institutions and related technology providers as well as investments in capacity-building services for the industry and clients at the bottom of the pyramid.

Genesis was commissioned by the MasterCard Foundation to conduct an end-term evaluation of the Financial Services for Rural Communities and Smallholder Farmers in Africa programme that has been run for five years. 

Genesis developed a monitoring and evaluation framework for Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya.

Genesis was hired by the Financial Services Board to conduct the monitoring and Evaluation of the Financial Services Board's consumer education 2015.

Genesis was hired by Compuscan CRB Ltd to provide ongoing monitoring and evaluation support during the establishment of a rural and agricultural finance credit bureau (called Ground Up) and identification system in Uganda. 

Genesis was commissioned to study impediments to more effective competition in mobile money markets in four markets – India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria.

Our assignment was to assist a leading Ghanaian bank's Financial Inclusion Unit (FIU) to deliver on its overarching goal of having five million active accounts by 2018, and to identify ‘capability’ gaps that could potentially be supported by FSD Africa. The analysis involved a market opportunity analysis and internal capability assessment.

Genesis was contracted to take stock of Access to Finance Rwanda's progress in achieving its goal and conduct a value for money (vfM) assessment of AFR’s investments in 2015. Following this work, Genesis was contracted to review their MRM system. After the review, AFR retained Genesis in 2016 to streamline its MRM component and facilitate the effective communication of its results internally and externally.

Genesis was contracted by the MasterCard Foundation to conduct a final evaluation of the YouthSave initiative. YouthSave was one of the first long-term programmes that had been funded by the foundation. 

Genesis was commissioned by DFID and the Ugandan financial services inclusion programme to conduct a review of the progress made within the microfinance industry in Uganda, consider the emerging trends in the sector as well as to provide a look into the future and recommend new strategies for increasing the level of financial inclusion. 

Genesis was commissioned by the Zimbabwe Agricultural Development Trust (ZADT) to develop and pilot financial products suitable for direct access by smallholder farmers. Small-scale farming is the backbone of the rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe but the farmers often struggle to access finance for agricultural production, locking them into low input- low output production models

Genesis was retained by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (Asia Headquarters) to advice on the design of Trust Funds and Apex Institutions in the ASEAN region.

Genesis Analytics partnered the IFC on its Nigeria MSME programme to help a large commercial bank develop an MSME strategy.