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February 2017

April 2007
Kenya’s payment market: Identifying an enabling environment for Government to Person transfers through the banking sector
This report describes the supply of financial services from the retail banking market in Kenya and identifies opportunities for using current and alternative payments infrastructure to support social protection payment (SPP) transfers.
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Enabling environment Government transfers Policy
January 2010
G2P payments project: Helping social protection to reach remote rural areas
Small regular social grants or payments to the very poor or vulnerable are increasingly recognised as a key tool in the fight against extreme poverty. New social protection payment schemes face major challenges in delivering payments safely and cost effectively to beneficiaries. During 2008 FSD took on responsibility for the management of payments under Kenya’s […]
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Cash transfers Food security HSNP Poverty Social protection
September 2012
Markets and poverty in northern Kenya: Towards a financial graduation model
An analytical review of markets and poverty in northern Kenya intended to inform FSD’s proposed financial graduation programme.
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Cash transfers Financial graduation Food security HSNP Poverty
April 2014
Financial graduation feasibility study
This study was commissioned by the Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Trust in Kenya to examine opportunities to support a financial graduation model, targeting the extremely poor and food insecure who receive cash transfers under the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP). Specifically, the study team proposed to: (1) Analyse the opportunities and challenges of delivering […]
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July 2015

July 2011
Equity Bank and the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) in Kenya
This case study explores the implementation and implications of Equity Bank’s partnership with the Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) to support the payment of social protection benefits to the poor in Northern Kenya through agent banking and branch expansion.
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August 2010
Against the odds: Implementing social protection in Northern Kenya
A look at some of the challenges of setting up a grants payments network for vulnerable households in Northern Kenya.