By country: Zambia

Government programmes

• Improving financial capability in Zambia, Financial Education Fund (FEF): www.financialeducationfund.org: 
  the FEF is a new UK Department for International Development (DFID) sponsored challenge fund to catalyse improvements in financial literacy in Africa. It will fund projects from public and private sector that test alternative approaches to building the financial capability of lower-income groups. The first funding round will be open to eight Sub-Saharan African countries: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The geographic focus may be extended in subsequent rounds.The FEF is conceived as a multi-donor fund, with an initial start-up capital from DFID of £4 million over three years. DFID is a UK public body leading the British Government's fight against world poverty.
  Projects funded by the FEF in Zambia will be announced after March 2009.