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About Grooming Centre
Founded in December 2006, Grooming Center is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) under Certificate Number CAC/IT/NO 24198. The organization was established to address the lack of financial services available to the large number of economically active impoverished individuals in many parts of Nigeria who engage in small-scale trading and micro-productive activities.
The Center is the product of a group of microfinance professionals’ steadfast dedication to creating a dynamic, rapidly expanding company that will take the lead in enhancing the impoverished’s access to financial services. This membership group provides a variety of financial services right to its members’ doorsteps in order to carry out a radical action agenda.
The Grooming Center is a national organization with a global focus that is committed to providing financial services and resource mobilization to the underprivileged entrepreneurs who have little to no access to traditional financial services.
The Center relies on international best practices to run its operations and provide services. These practices were developed by ASA Bangladesh, a market leader in microfinance services, and were brought to Nigeria through the UNDP-supported MicroStart program. This allows the Center to function as a viable organization.
Qualification Requirements
How to qualify
1. Application Requirements
The candidate must be enrolled in a Nigerian postsecondary institution as an undergraduate or graduate student, with a research project focused on any of the following topics: financial inclusion, microfinance, social enterprise, rural development, technological advancement, digital finance, youth development, women in development, or any other research project with the goal of uplifting people out of poverty.
 2. Research Areas
The focus of the research study must be relevant to the Nigerian context, practical, innovative and should be capable of promoting any of the above areas of interest, in the Nigerian space.
3. Competence
The study needs to have a high degree of creativity, innovative thinking, and data inclusivity.
(Age, gender, religion, or ethnicity are not impediments to application).
4. Academic requirement
The candidate must be enrolled in a Nigerian university or polytechnic that has received NUC/NBTE approval.
A written and signed recommendation from the applicant’s project supervisor is required.
5. Submission process
- A research concept that is between ten and fifteen pages long, containing an introduction, literature review, research technique with references, and a page featuring the candidate’s biography, is required of the application. After the study is over, the candidate will also turn in a final soft copy of the research project. (For a guide, see the abstract).
6. Opening And Closing Dates
- Submission opens on the 16th of July 2024 and closes on 20th September 2024
Download the Application Abstract
You can easily organize your research application paper by using the format provided by the abstract guidance. Make sure your research application material adheres to the abstract.
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