Lesotho GIS Financial Access Points Mapping Project – Phase 2

Financial inclusion is a key pillar of Lesotho’s development agenda under the National Strategic Development Plan and the Financial Sector Development Strategy. Under the Lesotho Scaling Inclusion through Mobile Money (SIMM) project, the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) and the UNDP, in partnership with FinMark Trust (FMT), implemented Phase 1 of the Financial Access Points Mapping Project (December 2017 – March 2018), which produced the country’s first geo-referenced baseline of 5,597 financial access points.
Given developments in the financial sector since 2018, there is a need to implement Phase 2 to update and extend the database and to deepen the analytics. The GIS database is a key input to a financial market information system: it supports the CBL’s regulatory data capabilities, the National Financial Inclusion Strategy II (2024–2028) monitoring and evaluation framework, and the Extended National Strategic Development Plan II (2023–2027), and it delivers commercial and operational value to financial service providers.

Any queries relating to the preparation of the application should be referred electronically via email: Mr Obert Maposa | obertm@finmark.org.za and Ms Florence Mohasoa | florence@finmark.org.za.