African member associations will receive increased funding in the upcoming Women's World Cup based on performance.
Winners will take home $4.29m and delegations will earn $1.56m for participating in the group stage in the tournament that will be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand later this year.
Should the African teams progress beyond the group stages, there is an increased $1.87m and $2.18m on offer for the federations in the last 16 and quarter-finals respectively.
Fifa has made it clear to national federations that it expects that the amount retained by member associations will be reinvested in their footballing activities, including coaching staff, grassroots projects, youth national teams and women's football capacity-building programmes.
This move will help improve the game on the African continent, according to Asisat Oshoala, a two-time European Women's Champions League winner with Barcelona.
"This means Fifa will monitor these funds and make sure they're channeled to the right places and players can also benefit from it individually," she said.
The tournament will begin on July 20, with Nigeria opening its campaign against Canada in Melbourne a day later before facing Australia and the Republic of Ireland in Brisbane.
Nigeria is the only African team to have played in all eight Women's World Cups since 1991, but the Super Falcons have failed to translate their continental dominance to the world stage.
Their best performance at the World Cup came when reaching the quarter-finals in 1999, while they also reached the knockout stages in 2019, losing 3-0 to Germany.
For their second appearance on the World Cup stage, South Africa have been paired in a tricky Group G against Sweden, Italy and Argentina.
Debutants Zambia will be facing 2011 world champions Japan, Spain and Costa Rica in Group C.
Africa's other representative Morocco will battle two-time World Cup winners Germany, Colombia and South Korea in Group H.
Players from teams who reach the last-16 stages each receive $60,000, while $90,000 will be paid to those in the quarter-finals.
