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2019 Project - Creating Decent Jobs Using the Lead Firm Model The Lead Firm Structure for Youth Employment (LFS) interventions will enable 281,960 youth to secure direct dignified and fulfilling work. The LFs will also create indirect opportunities for another 269,739 people. This transformative approach focuses on increasing incomes of the population which will stimulate greater demand for goods and services which in turn will lead to increased production and growth at household (HH), Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) and Lead Firm (LF) levels.  The catalyst for this transformative change is the organisation and coordination of increased production and productivity under Lead Firm Structures. The LFS aims at bringing poor excluded young women and men dominated HHs into linked economically rewarding production activities as well as catalysing and placing MSMEs on a growth path to bigger companies themselves. As the result of this, different players will together overcome production, productivity and market access (domestic and export) challenges that they individually and collectively face. Lead Firms and MSMEs will make an investment amounting $11 million as a contribution to the implementation of the LFS. This intervention will fuel income and economic growth, firm expansion and job creation.
2012 Management Program - Fletcher School To support a conference entitled "Investing in Africa: Context for Assessing Risk and Return in the World's Most Fragmented-and Promising-Emerging Market" on April 23-24, 2012.
2019 YAW-Nigeria: Digital Transformation 2019 YAW-Nigeria: Digital Transformation
2019 Mgmt Project - Monitoring & Evaluation, and Mentoring Plan The project supports an impact evaluation of EPL’s Public Service Fellowship Program in Liberia and Ghana. It will also enhance the mentorship curriculum of the Program. Learnings from the evaluation will focus on individual and institutional outcomes and will be used to inform Foundation’s understanding of successful models that help young people transition into careers in public service sector in Africa.
2016 Mgmt Project - 2015 Water.org Final Evaluation - Additional Funds (See Request #728) 2016 Mgmt Project - 2015 Water.org Final Evaluation - Additional Funds (See Request #728)
2012 Program - Boulder 2.0 1) Develop and implement The MasterCard Foundation Symposia on Financial Inclusion
2) Update Boulder's Microfinance Training Programs through a stronger evidence base
3) Create alumni network and offer courses online
4) Monitor and evaluate
2016 Mgmt Project - STEPUP Expansion and Secondary Education Support Deepen the impact of SHOFCO’s ‘Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Program for the Urban Poor’ (STEPUP) by offering high-quality education and sustainable livelihoods for young, economically disadvantaged transformative leaders in Kibera and Mathare (the two biggest slums in Kenya).
2015 Program - Hutham S. Olayan To provide scholarships through the Teta Endowed Scholarship Fund to academically qualified and financially disadvantaged undergraduate female students earning degrees in education or nursing at the American University of Beirut.
2013 Planning Program To support the design and development of a comprehensive secondary and tertiary scholarship program for academically bright but disadvantaged girls in Rwanda and Ethiopia, under the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program.
2019 Management Project - Additional Travel Expenses on 2018 Management Project 2019 Management Project - Additional Travel Expenses on 2018 Management Project
2019 Project - Support to the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Cooperation of Senegal on Inclusive Growth Towards Youth Employment MEPC will host a coordination platform for youth employment activities, by supporting a permanent secretariat to lead coordination efforts. MCF will provide one consultant to support the secretariat. The mandate, composition and other criteria for the platform will be co-designed with MEPC, the ministry in charge of labor (Ministère de l’Emploi, de la Formation Professionnelle et de l’Artisanat, MEFPA), and other key actors such as the Délégation à l’Entreprenariat Rapide, DER.

MEPC will stand private sector development and public-private partnerships departments within MEPC, with MCF funding for some of the positions, including one director general, two directors, and two analysts. Further, three students from ENSEA will be recruited, onboarded and trained by MEPC to support the implementation of the PPP and private sector projects. This approach will allow MEPC to start building a pool of talent. Additional expertise will progressively be allocated by MEPC
2017 Mgmt Project - Young African Researchers II 2017 Mgmt Project - Young African Researchers II
2007 Director's Program - Phillip Clay The Fund shall be disbursed for the How to Guide to Marketing in Microfinance publication of Stichting To Promote Women's World Banking ("WWB") in 2007.
2010 Program Provide relevant employment training and job placement program to 4,000 unemployed Haitian youth.
2019 Innovation Fund Project - Fishing for Work The overall goal of the Fishing for Work pilot project is address youth unemployment in the area around Lake Victoria in Kenya by engaging youth in collaboratively addressing challenges in the fishing value chain by identifying and designing solutions through fish hackathons, then helping youth bring their ideas to life by connecting them to networks, opportunities and other resources in the fishing sector using a value chain hub coordination model.
2011 Planning Program - mLearning To conduct research into sustainable and socially impactful learning projects for youth 15-24 using mobile technology.
2018 Mgmt Project - Further analysis of youth diaries data To conduct additional analysis of the youth livelihoods diaries that could address the challenge of youth employment in Africa and lead to poverty reduction.
2009 Management - Grameen This program supports workshops to facilitate a microfinance industry-wide dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of technology use.
2020 CRRP - Blended E-learning Initiative Support over 5000 young people with skills needed in the industry by expanding their blended e-learning program
2015 Director's Project - Jendayi Frazer 2015 Director's Project - Jendayi Frazer
2019 Management Project - CNW Research Carry out desk research to determine existing analyses available regarding CNW (The Changing Nature of Work) or related audiences.
Undertake interviews and surveys to learn directly from representative members of these audience segments their knowledge needs.
Provide insights and recommendations to the Foundation, through a report and at a workshop.
2017 - Supplemental Funding for FAWE Rwanda Tertiary Scholars Part of the 2013 Scholars Program partnership with FAWE - additional funds for tertiary-level scholarships in Rwanda
2020 Scholars Program - ALU Rwanda and Mauritius Partnership 2020 Scholars Program - ALU Rwanda and Mauritius Partnership
2012 - Learning Partner - Scholars Program The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Learning Partner
2013 Management Program - Final Evaluation of EGF FiKA Program 2013 Management Program - Final Evaluation of EGF FiKA Program
2008 Director's Program - Paul M. Ostergard To provide scholarships for students who have financial needs and are enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences or the Case School of Engineering of the Case Western Reserve University.
2020 CRRP - COVID-19 Policy Response - Africa Focus 2020 CRRP - COVID-19 Policy Response - Africa Focus
2014 Management Project - Scholarships The project will prepare high school graduates from Rwanda and the neighbouring conflict-torn countries for admission and scholarships to international universities. The students will be selected based on their academic performance, financial need, leadership potential and commitment to give back to Rwanda and Africa in general. In addition to a year-long in-country preparatory program, the project will provide support to students while they are studying abroad including placement with host families, mentoring, counselling, and career services. 
The project will expand its network of employers committed to offering opportunities to young Africans, and build out a more comprehensive program to help students with career counselling, internship and job placement in Africa. 
The project will also document important data and learnings in the effort to create opportunities to replicate this model in other countries.
2016 Secondary Education Management Project 2016 Secondary Education Management Project
2018 Director's Project - President Mogae 2018 Director's Project - President Mogae
2019 Sankalp Africa - Platform for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing •	Development of the Forum content, in particular as it pertains to the role of academia and technical/vocational training organizations in cultivating youth entrepreneurship. The Foundation and Sankalp will co-develop sessions on: (i) designing business incubation programs within an academic environment; (ii) linking young innovators with corporates for grassroots innovations; and (iii) tapping the potential of the gig economy for youth employment.
•	Provide scholarships to young African entrepreneurs and manage travel logistics to attend the Summit and participate in structured networking opportunities.
•	A post-event report will capture learnings from the Forum.
2019 YAW-Ghana: Scaling MEST to Young Ghanaians Leveraging MEST Africa’s core competencies, decade of learning, and existing Intellectual Property, MEST suggests three pilot programs to test in collaboration with other partners as part of Young Africa Works Ghana.
1.	A “Pre-MEST” program whereby MEST will partner with local universities, existing tech hubs, and coding programs to create an adaptation of the MEST Training Program which can be more widely distributed, in hopes of addressing the currently unmet demand for training (in the last year alone, MEST received over 4,500 applicants for 60 spots).
2.	Through MEST Express existing startups will benefit from a condensed and advanced incubator model, along with key components of our MEST’s Training Program, to offer a leaner, more accelerated and adapted model.
3.	MEST Scale is designed for companies that are at the scale stage, to help create a pipeline of companies that are reaching growth and scale.
2011 Management Program For scholars from The Global Give Back Circle (GGBC) to work with a team of HELP scholars in Haiti and guide them to co-create a mentoring model and a private sector partnership model.
2020 Scholars Program - Transitions Support Supplemental funding to support Scholars transitions at University of Abomey-Calavi
2018 LIT TMIS with Canadian UNICEF Committee To conduct research under the following themes:
o	Mapping current approaches and best practices in data-driven decision making in education.
o	Opportunities for leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data in education.
o	A research and pilot program testing an approach to AI and predictive analysis in the education sector 
o	Other research on emerging learning needs.
2018 Management Project - Learning Partnership in Kenya The project will support learning activities in support of the Foundation's Young Kenya Works Strategy.  These activities will include the developmeng of country-wide learning plans, learning agendas for country partners, technical assistance for monitoring and evaluation activities, and on-going collaboration events and workshops, and reports on key findings.
2009 Program This program promotes SPM in Latin America through national and regional microfinance networks. Social Performance Management (SPM) uses an array of best practices to help microfinance providers set clear social objectives, monitor and assess progress, and use results to design operations that balance social benefits and institutional financial sustainability. Based on learnings in Latin America, SPM will be promoted throughout Africa, starting with a pilot in Senegal.
2014 Management Program - 2014 Talloires Network Leaders Conference (Cape Town, South Africa) Enabling 50 young people and 50 academics to participate who would otherwise be unable.
2018 Management Project This project aims to facilitate dialogue, debate and discussion around the areas of education, youth employment and youth skills development in Africa. This will help to inform future programming developed by the Foundation, its partners and other stakeholders working in these areas.
2015 Management Project - Swisscontact Final Evaluation To understand more whether we should go for phase 2 of partnership.
2008 Program - Scholars To provide microfinance managers, predominantly from the African continent, with quality practical and analytical training in strategic and the core operational areas of microfinance management.
2013 Project Raise awareness, mobilize and convene different stakeholder groups to support the global "ChildFinance Movement," as well as share innovation and learning on financial education and products for young people.
2018 Innovation Fund Mgmt Project - Creating a Tech-Enabled Credential System for African Youth Research and investigate the global landscape of tech-enabled credential solutions that bring visibility to achievements and accomplishments.
2020 CRRP - Leveraging Finance for Growth During COVID-19 To enable the over 3,000 members of the WomenWorks MSME network to access finance through the MSME emergency finance facility to be managed by an independent fund manager
2014 Management Program - Client-centric products / youth employment Enable Farm Shop develop a structured strategy to engage youth in agricultural supply chains, and expand its agricultural finance services to smallholder farmers in Kenya.
2009 Program - Scholars Boulder This program provides scholarships to qualified individuals to attend the Boulder MFT Programs in Costa Rica and Turin, Italy.  Scholarships are provided, based on financial need.
2020 CRRP - Senegal COVID-19 Response Program 2020 CRRP - Senegal COVID-19 Response Program
2020 CRRP - Supporting Cree Students in Northern Quebec 2020 CRRP - Supporting Cree Students in Northern Quebec
2016 Project - East Africa Youth Inclusion Program (EAYIP) This project will equip youth in Uganda and Tanzania with the technical, business, life and financial literacy skills necessary to establish producer associations, businesss and/or seek seekployment. The projet model uses a holistic approach, including intensive training, access to credit, ongoing mentoring, as well as training in complementary agricultural value chains such as horticulture. It will deepen our understanding of the dairy sector and its potential to produce jobs for rural youth in Uganda and Tanzania.
2013 Director's Program - Hutham S. Olayan To provide scholarships through the Teta Endowed Scholarship Fund to academically qualified and financially disadvantaged undergraduate female students earning degrees in education or nursing at the American University of Beirut.
2017 REEDI Project - Learning & Research Dalberg will support the MasterCard Foundation to create an ecosystem that generates employment in Rwanda’s hospitality and tourism sector and places high-potential youth in meaningful careers. Dalberg will support the Foundation as a strategy and learning partner, but will also provide specific technical assistance directly to partners.
2011 Management Program - Book To publish The New Microfinance Handbook which advances the existing Microfinance Handbook's institutional view to provide a holistic and current view of the industry and its landscape.
2018 LIT Learning Partner (Partner 1 of 3 along with Laterite BV and University of Cambridge) •	Create a learning model for the LIT initiative
•	Generate relevant evidence, to assess the effects of the initiative on teacher performance, and understand its influence on student’s learning
•	Establish a process of continuous learning, involving both beneficiaries and stakeholders, with the aim of gradually improving the effectiveness of the initiative
•	Generate policy-relevant knowledge for the initiative and for policy makers more generally, working on secondary education in Rwanda and beyond
2020 Project - Inclusive Africa Conference on Digital Accessibility Inclusive Africa conference will start the needed conversation on digital accessibility with key decision makers in government and private sector, while raising the visibility and importance of digital accessibility of online products and services. The event will bring together government, experts and accessibility professionals working to advance computer technology, accessibility and inclusion. It is an opportunity to share knowledge, network, and explore new ways to improve accessibility and inclusion for all people, particularly persons with disabilities.
2018 Innovation Fund Project •	Design and test ways to connect young entrepreneurs to facilitate skills transfer, resource mobilization, and collaboration among a network of young entrepreneurs.
•	This innovation aims to design a mechanism to connect smaller job-generative entrepreneurs working on similar businesses/innovative solutions to enable them to pool their resources together for greater impact using research, prototyping, and testing.
2016 Mgmt Project - Additional Funds for Mathematica Midterm Review (see Request #807) Assess the extent to which the Learning Partnership between Mathematica, the Foundation, and implementing partners is meeting its objectives and provide recommendations to further optimize the partnership going forward.
2014 Management Program - MEDA YouthInvest Final Evaluation 2014 Management Program - MEDA YouthInvest Final Evaluation
2010 Planning Program To support the research and planning for 3 innovative mobile microfinance product and service pilots to expand financial access for the unbanked in Kenya.
2007 Director's Program - Lois Juliber The Fund shall be disbursed for the following two education projects under the Women's Leadership Development Program of Stichting To Promote Women's World Banking ("WWB") in 2007.
2019 Développement territorial par l’entrepreneuriat laitier "MELITEJI" 2019 Développement territorial par l’entrepreneuriat laitier "MELITEJI"
2008 Program  - Scholars To provide access to in-house and open enrolment training programs to participants who would otherwise be unable to attend.
2013 Management Project - Headmasters' Conference Support a convening to improve the understanding on university placement, student support, and career development for African students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
2020 Innovation Fund Project - Caregiver Management System 2020 Innovation Fund Project - Caregiver Management System
2016 Mgmt Project - Scaling Access Initiative Review To review the strengths, weaknesses and potential of Scaling Access microfinance bank partners to engage in future strategy.
2020 COVID-19 RRP KNCCI will act as an aggregator of MSMEs at both grassroot and national levels and funnel this to the proposed MSME fund and facilitate access to suitable finance during COVID-19
2014 Management Project - Emerging Market Digital Economies Symposium A symposium on digital economies in emerging markets will be successfully organized and convened. In addition, a new piece of public research/white paper will be disseminated from the notes from the discussion during the symposium.
2011 Director's Program - Lois Juliber For internships in microfinance. Wellesley’s Center for Work and Service (CWS) will manage this grant and identify the students to receive the MasterCard Internships, with preference given to students participating in the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs (Albright Institute).
2010 Program Expand EFE’s youth employment model in Morocco by increasing the employability skills and employing 3,000 disadvantaged young people. EFE will also deliver an abridged version of its curriculum to 12,500 young people.
2014 Management Program - Social Performance Assessment of CRS Partner MFIs $90,000 over 1 year for Social Performance Assessment of 12 MISION Africa partner Microfinance Institutions and a consolidated assessment report.
2020 CRRP - Flattening the Curve in Kenya Support the expansion of laboratory testing for COVID-19 and critical training and equipment for health care workers Nationwide, the front-line of the National COVID- 19 pandemic response
2015 Project - Driving Youth-Led New Agribusiness and Microenterprise (DYNAMIC) Provide young people with the technical skills and knowledge to link them to quality employment, or to start their own businesses, in the agricultural sectors in Uganda.
2011 Program - MISION Africa To expand the Foundation's current project and promote social performance management in six African countries.
2017 Mgmt Project - Midterm Review of McGill, UBC, U of T 2017 Mgmt Project - Midterm Review of McGill, UBC, U of T
2017 Secondary Education Study Complete analysis and background paper on Skills and Jobs for the Future in Africa through the lens of secondary education. This background paper will answer the question of what African countries should do to provide productive jobs for their large and fast-growing youth population.
2020 Scholars CRRP: Additional Support to University of Gondar Scholars Additional fundingfor Scholars’ immediate support in response to covid-19 in alignment with the Scholars Program recovery and resilience strategy.
2018 LIT Learning Partner (Partner 2 of 3 along with Laterite Ltd and University of Cambridge) •	Create a learning model for the LIT initiative
•	Generate relevant evidence, to assess the effects of the initiative on teacher performance, and understand its influence on student’s learning
•	Establish a process of continuous learning, involving both beneficiaries and stakeholders, with the aim of gradually improving the effectiveness of the initiative
•	Generate policy-relevant knowledge for the initiative and for policy makers more generally, working on secondary education in Rwanda and beyond
2020 YAW Project - Enabling-ETHIOPIA This partnership signifies a 5 year commitment by MCF to support JCC implement their comprehensive job creation Plan of Action. In particular the program will support JCC to:
- Adopt job rich policies
- Strengthen the capacity of federal and regional institutions
- Build effect systems including employment services, labour market information system, and labour market resource mapping 
- Implement a large scale work readiness program (#etworks) including educating and training youth to ensure they are ready for the workforce 
- Expand economic opportunities and inclusiveness by implementing inclusive and innovative programs focusing on street youths, IDPs and Refugees, people with disabilities and unemployed rural women. 
-	Create the next generation of high growth entrepreneurs in Ethiopia by building 5 University incubation centres, providing 5k in funding to 200 entrepreneurs and launching a behavioural change media campaign
2010 Planning Program To support the educational partnership between the University of Waterloo and Kenyatta University and to conduct a feasibility study on entrepreneurship in Kenya that will advance education and entrepreneurship for youth in Africa.
2015 Program - MF Scholars Enable approximately 15 senior microfinance practitioners to attend Harvard University’s ‘Rethinking Financial Inclusion’ program and, in turn, equip them to address critical problems in financial inclusion.
2019 Youth for Youth: White Meat Value Chain Linkage (Y4Y) 2019 Youth for Youth: White Meat Value Chain Linkage (Y4Y)
2011 Planning Project Detailed strategic development and implementation planning to inform a proposal for a flagship secondary school scholarship program.
2020 CRRP - Reinventing Rwanda’s Tourism SMEs post COVID-19 2020 CRRP - Reinventing Rwanda’s Tourism SMEs post COVID-19
2014 MF Gateway - eLearning CGAP's e-learning project aims to dramatically improve the accessibility and affordability of high-quality training and continuing education content for professionals, specifically new entrants and mid-level managers, working at a diverse range of retail financial institutions.