NIRSAL Connect
Abdulkareem Tunde-Gegele has a diverse work experience spanning over different sectors. Abdulkareem started their career in 2001 at First Bank of Nigeria Ltd., where they held various roles such as Retail Marketing Officer, Head of Tellering Services, and Head of Customer Services. In these roles, they performed tasks related to client service, account management, and issuance of bank instruments.
In 2006, Tunde-Gegele joined Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH as a Financial Services Advisor. Their responsibilities included identifying constraints and challenges of access to finance for SMEs, coordinating activities of Microfinance Banks, and conducting monitoring and evaluation of projects.
From 2011 to 2017, they worked at AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants as the State Coordinator for Financial Services. Here, they focused on pro-poor growth and employment promotion programs in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Their work involved assessing and categorizing partner Microfinance Banks, providing support for their capacity-building, and ensuring revenue and expenditure controls.
Their most recent role, starting in 2017, is with NIRSAL Connect as the Head of the PMRO (Project Monitoring, Reporting and Remediation Unit). Their responsibilities include supervising financing and intermediation activities, generating credit requests, and implementing agricultural financing interventions at the state level.
Abdulkareem Tunde-Gegele holds a Master's degree in Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies, which they obtained from the Federal University of Technology Minna from 2014 to 2016. Prior to that, they also pursued a Master's degree in Business Administration and Management, General at Ambrose Alli University from 2003 to 2005. In addition, Abdulkareem attended the Federal University of Technology Minna, although specific details regarding their degree and field of study are not available.
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NIRSAL Connect
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing system for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) was launched in 2011 and incorporated in 2013 by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a dynamic, holistic USD500 Million public-private initiative to catalyse the flow of finance and investments into fixed agricultural value chains. NIRSAL seeks to address the causes of low funding levels in the agriculture sector, including lack of understanding of the sector, perceived high risks, complex credit assessment processes/procedures, and high transaction costs.