summary
Digitised national scholarship disbursement platform enabling instant digital payouts for 80,000+ students across Senegal institutions.
Case study
From 3-Week Delays
to Instant Payouts
How SesaPay digitised national scholarship disbursement for 80,000+ students across Senegal, powered by the Idea to MVP Launch Programme™ and a scalable fintech platform.
Live platform
Idea to MVP Launch Programme™
80K+
Beneficiaries served
500+
Institutions
60%+
Efficiency gain
The challenge
Manual workflows, costly delays
SesaPay needed to distribute national scholarships to 80,000+ students across Senegal. Manual verification workflows caused 2–3 week payout delays, reconciliation errors, and limited transparency for all stakeholders in the scholarship payment system.
What we built
A secure, backend-strong SaaS platform
Engineered through the Idea to MVP Launch Programme™ to handle national scale from day one, delivering a secure fintech disbursement platform for institutions and government stakeholders.
- ✓Digitised verification across 500+ institutions
- ✓Automated approval and disbursement workflows
- ✓Direct integration with the SesaPay mobile wallet ecosystem
- ✓Real-time transaction tracking and monitoring
- ✓Centralised administrative dashboard for scholarship payment management
~2min
Disbursement time (was 2–3 weeks)
80K+
Student beneficiaries successfully supported
60%+
Operational efficiency improvement
500+
Institutions digitised
Idea to MVP Launch Programme™
A live, transaction-ready fintech SaaS platform powering real users at scale.
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