It’s an exciting month here at hiveonline as we prepare to start lending to our users! We are launching a pilot to enable lending to our first 1,000 myCoop.online users in Mozambique through our partner, Microbanco Confiança SA. At the same time, we have finalised our agreement with Kingdom Bank… Read More »Getting Ready for Lending in Kenya and Mozambique!
hiveonline has reached 50,000 smallholder farmers and savings group members across our platform! Over the past eight months, hiveonline’s dedicated field officers (FOs) have worked tirelessly to bring our digital tools to farmers. With a substantial presence in Kenya (40,000 farmers), Mozambique (10,000 farmers), and in our most recent project… Read More »hiveonline reaches 50,000 users!
Picture of App Secretary Abdulai Mariama entering transactions into hiveonline’s VSLA.online app during one of her savings group’s meetings. We are thrilled to continue advancing financial inclusion in Ghana thanks to our partnership with ACDI/VOCA under USAID’s Feed the Future Ghana Market Systems and Resilience (MSR) Activity. The MSR Activity… Read More »Expanding our Impact: 7500 Savings Group Members Join VSLA.online in Ghana
Hiveonline, CYNK, Flux and KenGrow are partnering to lead a year-long project to empower 2,000 women smallholder farmers in Kenya sustainably. This strategic collaboration is driven by clear objectives that promote financial inclusion, advance regenerative farming practices, and enhance women’s leadership in the agricultural sector. Hiveonline will spearhead financial inclusion… Read More »Empowering 2,000 Women Farmers: Hiveonline, CYNK, Flux and KenGrow Collaborate
After an intensive year, hiveonline has successfully completed the Mozambique Central Bank’s Regulatory Sandbox. This transformative initiative is driving accessibility to quality financial products and services for Mozambique’s smallholder farmers and agricultural workers, who make up 70% of the population, with 95% being smallholder farmers. This approval means that hiveonline… Read More »🎉A Momentous Day for hiveonline – Regulatory approval in Mozambique!
Today, we take a look at the shortcomings of existing financial services for supporting humanitarian and development programmes! GiveDirectly, a trusted cash aid distributor, found itself embroiled in a colossal fraud, losing USD 900,000 in a cash voucher distribution scheme (The New Humanitarian) meant for its beneficiaries in the Democratic Republic of… Read More »Let’s Talk about Securing CVA Distribution: The Case of Fraud in Cash Distribution in South Kivu, DRC
hiveonline is pleased to announce significant partnership milestones in its mission to drive financial inclusion and foster the growth of the digital economy in Mozambique and Kenya. Agreements with trading partners, financial services providers and the central bank signed recently set the foundations for hiveonline multi-service platform to offer market… Read More »Hiveonline ApS announces strategic partnerships across the public and private Agricultural Finance ecosystem to bring growth opportunities to smallholder farming communities
Africa is a continent with a lot of potential! There are many across the globe who see this potential and are working to unlock it such as NGOs, banks, or CEOs, all of these groups realise that sustainable finance is key to unlocking Africa’s potential. In this blog post, we discuss how blockchain technology can help achieve sustainable finance in Africa. We provide an overview of blockchain technology and explain how it can be used to create transparent systems that promote sustainability. Finally, we give some examples of how this is already being put into practice in Africa. We are confident that this blog post will provide you with a better understanding of the role of blockchain technology in promoting sustainable finance in Africa and inspires you to get involved!
Hiveonline has signed an extension of our partnership with Norges Vel and AMPCM to support the growth of the smallholder Cashew farming community in Mozambique as part of the ConnectCaju programme. The new 17 month phase will increase the usage of hiveonline’s myCoop.online application to open access to supply chains… Read More »Hiveonline extends Mozambique rollout with Norges Vel and AMPCM
NGOs and governments can now distribute value and donations to vulnerable people efficiently, cheaply and completely digitally thanks to hiveonline’s blockchain based e-Vouchers. Mozambican peanut farmers suffer from widespread aflatoxin contamination, which causes stunting in children and cancer. Aflatoxin is responsible for over ⅓ of African liver cancers, and because… Read More »Revolutionising value distribution in Rural Africa