Uloma Ogba

New York, USA

Uloma is a gender and learning specialist with over eight years of experience in financial inclusion. She has been working with UNCDF since 2016 in various coordination and lead roles and, more recently, as a Gender and Financial Inclusion Consultant at MarketShare Associates.

Uloma co-founded Give Girls A Chance, which helps low-income Nigerian girls and young women acquire education and skills training. She also founded Launch Africa, a career consultancy for young Africans engaged in international development.

She holds two MSc degrees in Medical Informatics (University of Amsterdam) and Medical Physics (Purdue University), and a BSc in Physics (Benedict College).

Resources by Uloma

Articles and Case Studies

Customizing digital remittances for blue-collar migrant workers in the UAE: Harnessing the power of customer archetypes

This second article on UNCDF's partnership with RAKBANK and Edenred focuses on demand-side research findings that draw on 355 phone surveys and 11 qualitative interviews with blue-collar migrant workers in…

Country and Regional Diagnostics

Diagnostic Report: Regional Harmonization of Remittances in the IGAD region

At the request of the IGAD Secretariat, UNCDF has worked with the Secretariat and other public and private stakeholders to conduct a regional diagnostic assessment of existing remittance arrangements, laying…

Migrant Money Notes

Designing Gender-Smart and Migrant-Centric Digital Remittances

Adopting a migrant-centric and gender-smart approach is about taking a long-term view of the context in which the remittance business operates and understanding how deliberate and upfront investments in reaching…

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