Nathan Were

Nathan Were leads CGAP's smallholder families work in Uganda, helping financial services providers to design solutions that address the financial needs of smallholders. He has 8 years of experience in financial systems development working with commercial banks and microfinance institutions in Africa. He is a fellow of the Harvard Business School's Strategic Leadership Program for Financial Inclusion and holds an M.Sc. in microfinance from the State University of Bergamo in Italy.

By Nathan Were

Research

Digitizing Agricultural Payments: Uganda's Coffee Value Chain

This is the story of how the United Nations Mobile Money for the Poor in Uganda worked with a coffee exporter to digitize one of the country’s most important cash crops. Learn about the dynamics of digitizing agricultural value chains and how organizations from different sectors worked to digitize Uganda’s coffee value chain.
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5 Insights into Credit Scoring for Smallholders

Agricultural lending remains a frontier area even as the alternative lending space fills up with new players. Here are some early insights from CGAP's work on alternative credit scoring for smallholder farmers in Uganda.
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Can Uganda Reduce Financial Exclusion to 5% in 5 Years?

Here's what you need to know about Uganda's new financial inclusion strategy, which aims to cut financial exclusion from 15 to 5 percent by 2022.
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Making Digital Payments Work for Low-Income Farmers

From hurling sacks of money out of planes to transporting cash in armored cars, the methods used to pay farmers in Uganda can be unsafe and inefficient. So why haven't digital payments taken off?