With A Total Funding of SDG 20 Billion, the Central Bank of Sudan launches a Project to Increase Financial Inclusion
Reported by Hala Hamza
On Thursday, November 20, 2025, the Central Bank of Sudan (CBS) launched a project to enhance financial inclusion and support micro and small enterprises (MSMEs) as a starting point for financing the winter season.
The project, with a total funding of 20 billion Sudanese pounds, began with the signing of two restricted Mudaraba contracts totaling 1.8 billion Sudanese pounds (SDG) with Azm Microfinance Company and Al-Ibdaa Microfinance Bank.
This step comes within the framework of the Central Bank of Sudan’s efforts to strengthen and increase financial inclusion rates, connect small producers with formal financial and banking institutions, reduce poverty rates, and increase self-employment opportunities.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, the project aims to achieve financial inclusion for up to 3 million new beneficiaries, linking them to the formal banking system. This will contribute to alleviating poverty, reducing unemployment rates, creating over 129,000 new job opportunities, and empowering rural women and female heads of households by increasing their access to formal financial services. It will also enhance the sustainability of microfinance institutions and banks in providing their services in the short and medium term, in addition to increasing the contribution of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sector to the gross national product (GNP).
The Central Bank of Sudan targets young entrepreneurs and graduates, small and medium-sized farmers, agricultural and livestock production groups and associations, female heads of households, and various solidarity groups with this project.
The project focuses on several sectors, with a 50% emphasis on the agricultural sector (both plant and animal), given its significant economic and social advantages. The industrial and craft sectors will follow, with a 30% focus on financing manufacturing industries. The commercial and service sectors will each receive 10% of the funding.
The project targets all states of Sudan without exception.
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