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2019 RESULTS AND IMPACT:

View Fund progress across its participant portfolio.

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CHALLENGE FUND PLAYBOOK:

A new Innovative Agri-Finance Challenge Fund Playbook is now available.

The Impact of Musoni

An in-depth analysis of the impact Musoni Kenya’s Kilimo Booster loan programme.

Blog: The Fund and COVID-19:

How the Fund and participants are adapting to COVID-19.

COVID-19 RESPONSE:

Syecomp launches a health advisory helpline for farmers in Ghana.

COVID-19 RESPONSE:

Farmerline is using mobile voice messaging to combat COVID-19.

FUND IMPACT:

Learn more about the impact achieved so far by projects supported.

Projects Supported

APA Insurance

An insurance company providing insurance to rural Kenyan farmers.

Apollo Agriculture

An agribusiness using a digital approach to smallholder agricultural finance.

Banque Atlantique Côte D'Ivoire

Developing innovative access to finance and micro-insurance for the unbanked.

Baobab+ Mali

A digital finance company addressing the issue of micro & SME financing.

Biopartenaire

Improving farmers' access to credit to drive sustainable cocoa production.

Compuscan

Providing risk management solutions to its clients in Uganda.

Copia Global

Opening up e-commerce channels to the underserved.

CRDB Microfinance Services

A microfinance company offering both wholesale and retail microfinance services.

Dodore Kenya

Enabling farmers to increase their farm profit and agricultural production.

Easy Solar

Providing consumer financing for solar powered lighting and appliances.

Empresa de Comercialização Agricola

Empowering smallholder farmers to become financially independent.

Enviu

Enviu has a 14-year track record of running projects and building social ventures in the domains of financial inclusion, circular economy, and food security.

Equity Bank Congo

Equity Bank Congo is a commercial bank registered in the Democratic Republic of Congo and regulated by Central Bank of Congo.

FarmerLine

Watch how Farmerline uses innovative ways to support Ghanaian farmers through their digital platforms and face to face interactions.

FarmerLine

Connecting farmers to information, finance and supply chains across Africa.

Finserve Africa

Providing mobile banking services in Kenya.

First Access

Using data to improve financial access for farmers in emerging markets.

FutureLink Technologies

Developing financial technologies for SACCOs & Microfinance Institutions.

Ibero Uganda

Enabling Ugandan coffee farmers to access comprehensive financial products.

Inuka Africa

Working to increase farmers’ incomes through optimizing milk production.

Juhudi Kilimo

Unlocking access to finance and credit for rural smallholder farmers.

Kifiya

Enabling digital financial services in Ethiopia.

Letshego

Providing convenient banking services for rural consumers in Mozambique.

Lima Kwanza

Supporting Tanzanian smallholder avocado farmers through increasing incomes and bankability.

M-Kopa Solar

Developing affordable solar home systems for rural consumers in East Africa.

Musoni Kenya

Financially empowering rural communities through mobile technology.

Olam Uganda

An agri-business offering loans and extension services to smallholder farmers.

Prepeez Technology

Prep-eez is a community level technology driven social impact company incorporated in 2010 that works to enhance agriculture through ICT and telecoms solutions.

Prosema

Improving the lives of 37,000 sesame farmers with digital support for financial and non-financial services.

Prothem Usine

Prothem Usine SA is the largest privately-owned tea processor in Burundi. Prothem provides financial services to farmers through its subsidiary SOCADE Microfinance. SOCADE provides farmers with credit, transaction services, and risk mitigation instruments.

Pula Advisors

Pula is an insurance and technology company with a radically different approach: Pula targets people who have never bought insurance before, starting with smallholder farmers.

Rwanda Trading Company

An agribusiness focused on raising incomes of coffee farmers in Rwanda.

Savonor

Connecting Kumoso farmers with financial services through an innovative out-grower scheme.

SolarNow Services Uganda

Offering flexible financing to farmers in rural, off-grid areas.

Sprint Money

Utilizing mobile banking technology to raise productivity and incomes for rural farmers.

Stewards Globe

A seed company that is producing improved seed using an out grower scheme.

Syecomp Ghana

Providing assistance to rural farmers to access credit services and advisory services that help boost yields and profits.

Twiga Foods

Providing fruit and vegetable vendors with a mobile-based ordering platform.

2019 RESULTS AND IMPACT:

CHALLENGE FUND PLAYBOOK:

The Impact of Musoni

Blog: The Fund and COVID-19:

COVID-19 RESPONSE:

COVID-19 RESPONSE:

FUND IMPACT:

Fund at a glance

Impacting 16.1 million beneficiaries (over 3,200,000 households) across Africa

US$ 40,000,000 disbursements matched by US$ 97,000,000 from participants

Over 146 financial products and services made available

Over 2,200,000 people benefiting from capacity building

Creating over 2,600 direct jobs through participant projects

Projects Supported

APA Insurance

Apollo Agriculture

Banque Atlantique Côte D'Ivoire

Baobab+ Mali

Biopartenaire

Compuscan

Copia Global

CRDB Microfinance Services

Dodore Kenya

Easy Solar

Empresa de Comercialização Agricola

Enviu

Equity Bank Congo

FarmerLine

FarmerLine

Finserve Africa

First Access

FutureLink Technologies

Ibero Uganda

Inuka Africa

Juhudi Kilimo

Kifiya

Letshego

Lima Kwanza

M-Kopa Solar

Musoni Kenya

Olam Uganda

Prepeez Technology

Prosema

Prothem Usine

Pula Advisors

Rwanda Trading Company

Savonor

SolarNow Services Uganda

Sprint Money

Stewards Globe

Syecomp Ghana

Twiga Foods

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Featured Project

FarmerLine