FIDELITY BANK GHANA LIMITED: CALL FOR PARTNERSHIPS: Empowering Sustainable Investments for a Just and Greener Future

FIDELITY BANK GHANA LIMITED

CALL FOR PARTNERSHIPS

 Empowering Sustainable Investments for a Just and Greener Future

Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited (“Fidelity” or the Bank), the largest privately-owned Ghanaian bank, is requesting for partnership proposals from local and international funders, development partners, and charitable organizations to implement innovative, impact-focused projects in Ghana targeting the Sustainable Development Goals. We aim to promote Ghana’s just transition journey by supporting key sectors including green economy, creative arts and culture, gender empowerment and micro, small and medium enterprises.

The Bank also intends to scale its corporate social responsibility activities geared towards underprivileged communities and vulnerable groups especially the youth, women and persons with disabilities and is keen to collaborate with like-minded charitable and philanthropic organizations.

Our Areas of Focus

This partnership will concentrate on the following thematic areas that align with Ghana’s development priorities and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:

1. Green Economy Initiatives: Support the transition to a sustainable green economy by funding and implementing environmentally friendly projects across Ghana’s green taxonomy including renewable energy, waste management, sustainable agriculture, and climate resilience.
2. Access to Affordable Financing for MSMEs: Provide innovative, concessionary financing solutions to MSMEs to enhance their growth, productivity, and competitiveness. Projects will focus on increasing access to financial and non-financial resources for entrepreneurs and MSMEs in underserved sectors and regions.
3. Gender Empowerment and Equality: Promote gender equality by funding initiatives that enhance the economic empowerment of women and girls, including access to financial resources, skills training, and leadership opportunities.
4. Creative Arts and Culture Industry Support: Strengthen the creative arts and culture sector, which has an untapped potential to drive economic growth, innovation, and cultural development. Support will target entrepreneurs, artists, and innovators in areas like fashion, music, film, sports and digital media.
5. Diaspora Connections: Leverage the global Ghanaian diaspora network to foster investment, knowledge transfer, and partnerships that create sustainable impact in the country.
6. Supporting Vulnerable Communities: Under the Bank’s Orange Impact Initiative, Fidelity Bank is constructing and refurbishing dilapidated educational infrastructure and WASH amenities for underserved youth in underprivileged communities. Under the EmpowerAll Initiative, the Bank is facilitating skills development and training for persons with disabilities as a pathway to inclusive employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

Why Partner with Fidelity Bank?

As a leading privately-owned indigenous bank in Ghana, Fidelity Bank currently serves about 3 million customers across 81 branches and 137 ATMs with over 8,000 agent points nationwide. Established in 1998 as a Fidelity Discount House, the bank has grown into a leading Tier-1 financial institution ranked 5^th in terms of total assets in Ghana’s banking industry. Fidelity has a strong focus on innovation and sustainability, offering value-added products and services to underserved entrepreneurs, MSMEs and corporates to foster inclusive growth. The bank has 1,259 staff and is a trusted partner with proven experience in implementing high-impact, SDG-aligned projects in Ghana. Over the past 3 years, the bank has successfully implemented impactful initiatives with partners including:

• Mastercard Foundation's BRIDGE-in Agric Program: Empowering agribusiness SMEs and young entrepreneurs with affordable financing solutions and capacity building for job creation.
• Orange Corners Innovation Fund: A partnership with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the Kingdom of Netherlands Embassy to support young entrepreneurs and start-ups with low-cost blended financing and technical assistance for economic growth.
• Accion gender-empowerment program: Partnership with global non-profit, Accion, to boost gender-intentionality of financial products and services and reduce barriers for women accessing financial services.
• Digitizing rural remittances and financial literacy: In partnership with the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Fidelity facilitated the digitization of rural remittances in the Brong Ahafo and Central regions and rolled out an innovative financial literacy scheme to rural beneficiaries.
• Leveraging financial inclusion to stem irregular migration: In partnership with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), under the “Boosting Green Employment and Enterprise Opportunities in Ghana” (GrEEn), Fidelity Bank enabled access and usage of financial services for youth, women and returning migrants in the Ashanti and Western regions of Ghana.

Our expertise, local market knowledge, and extensive networks across Ghana will ensure a strong partnership that is both impactful and sustainable.

What We Are Looking for

We seek partners who share our commitment to driving meaningful change in Ghana’s sustainable development agenda. We are looking for:

• Development Funders: Organizations that provide financial resources to implement SDG-related projects with an emphasis on sustainable growth, innovation, and impact.
• Technical Partners: Institutions with specialized knowledge and experience in implementing green economy projects, providing financial and non-financial resources to entrepreneurs and MSMEs.
• Philanthropic, charitable organizations and NGOs: Organizations that can help mobilize grants and concessionary funding to create synergies and amplify the impact of projects targeting the SDGs.

Proposal Submission Guidelines

Please submit a brief concept note proposal (max 1-2 pages) outlining specific interest for collaboration. The proposal should include:

• Overview and background of your organization and alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
• Potential resources to be contributed to the collaboration
• minimum financial commitment of 50% of total project cost is expected
• can include capacity building or technical assistance support
• Expected KPI outcomes and impact of the proposed project
• Work plan and timelines for implementation

We are also open to project co-creation, joint implementation or serving as fund manager to support new or existing project(s) of an interested party.

Please submit your interest and proposal by 5:00pm GMT on March 31^st, 2025, to: sustainability@myfidelitybank.net 

Together, let us join hands to build a more sustainable, equitable and greener future by tackling some of the most pressing development challenges in Ghana.

About Us: Fidelity Bank (Ghana) Limited is the largest privately-owned indigenous bank in Ghana serving about 3 million customers across 81 branches and 137 ATMs. Established in 1998 as Fidelity Discount House, the bank has grown into a leading Tier-1 financial institution ranked 5th in terms of total assets in Ghana’s banking industry. Fidelity has a strong focus on continuous innovation and provision of value-added products and services to micro-entrepreneurs, SMEs and corporates to foster inclusive growth. More at: https://www.fidelitybank.com.gh