The project required collaboration among a number of entities on three continents: the Financial
Sector Team within the Policy Division of DFID UK financed and supported the main project
(Justin Highstead); and two country financial sector programmes, FSD in Kenya (David Ferrand)
and FinMark Trust in South Africa (Jeremy Leach), financed and facilitated the country-level
information gathering processes. Country correspondents Keith Smith (South Africa) and Stefan
Staschen (Kenya) played a vital information gathering and facilitation role in each of the pilot
countries.