WASHINGTON /PRNewswire/
-- As CGAP celebrates ten years of successfully highlighting
exceptional photography from amateurs and professionals from around
the world, its 2015 annual Photo Contest is now open for
entries.
Experience the interactive Multimedia News Release
here: http://www.multivu.com/players/English/7267353-cgap-photo-contest/
Submit your entries to the
2015 CGAP Photo Contest
online before September 9,
2015.
Over
the past decade, the CGAP Photo Contest has documented the
remarkable ways that access to formal financial services can
improve poor people's lives. Much has changed and evolved
throughout these years and innovative platforms such as digital
financial services offer both hope and challenge to the over 2
billion unbanked people around the world.
To
focus on the changing financial inclusion space, this year's
contest will focus on four key themes: digital financial services;
women's use of financial services; microfinance for small business
enterprises; and smallholder farmers and their families.
Submissions may represent a range of products, institutions, and
approaches within these themes, and may touch on a broad variety of
social, economic, developmental, and technological issues. Entries
are welcomed from all regions, in both rural and urban
settings.
Past
winners include stunning and creative images that have been
featured in top global media. The Guardian credited the 2014
contest, which received nearly 5,000 entries from 95 countries,
with "raising awareness about the importance of increased access to
financial services," while Business Insider said the contest
highlights "uplifting photos of entrepreneurs in the developing
world."
Several prizes will be issued in 2015, including a first, second,
and third prize, as well as regional winners and a People's Choice
winner determined by popular vote. The voting will take
place between
September 10 and September 17.
Help
show the world, through photography, the "face" of financial
inclusion and how increased access to financial services can
improve the lives of the poor. Submit your
photos and share
this announcement with your networks.
About CGAP
CGAP (the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) is a global
partnership of 34 leading organizations that seek to advance
financial inclusion. CGAP develops innovative solutions through
practical research and active engagement with financial service
providers, policy makers, and funders to enable approaches at
scale. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP combines a pragmatic approach
to responsible market development with an evidence-based advocacy
platform to increase access to the financial services the poor need
to improve their lives. More atwww.cgap.org.
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