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ACDI/VOCA helps to expand financial services to small enterprises and rural households. We identify and support critical changes that facilitate access by reducing the cost and increasing the efficiency of financial intermediation with farmers, micro and small enterprises and rural residents.
Because these changes reflect local financial market conditions, varying over time and from place to place, our systems approach to financial services is varied as well and includes a wide range of activities:
- advocating for and obtaining changes in laws and regulations
- developing new, and partnering with existing, local commercial banks, cooperatives and non-bank financial institutions
- engaging value chain actors and allying them with financial institutions in order to reduce the cost and risk of agricultural finance
- expanding collateral through warehouse receipts and inventory credit systems
- building institutional capacity, disseminating best practices and supporting local partner efforts in financial and risk management, new product development, internal controls, financial analysis, management information systems and funding diversification
Current Projects
- Afghanistan – Agricultural Credit Enhancement (ACE)
- Ethiopia – Agricultural Growth Program-Agribusiness and Market Development (AGP-AMDe)
- Global – Financial Integration, Economic Leveraging, Broad-Based Dissemination Program (FIELD-Support Program)
- Kyrgyzstan – Women’s Leadership in Small and Medium Enterprises Program
- Russia – North Caucasus Agricultural Development Project
- South Sudan – Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets (FARM)
- Tajikistan – Productive Agriculture Project
- Zambia – Production, Finance and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+)
A Selection of Past Projects
- Afghanistan – Agriculture, Rural Investment and Enterprise Strengthening Program (ARIES)
- Afghanistan – Community Development Agriculture Program (CDA)
- Azerbaijan – Central Area Economic Opportunities (CEO) Program
- Azerbaijan – Enterprise Development and Training Program (EDTP)
- Azerbaijan – Rural Credit Project
- Azerbaijan – SME Support through Financial Sector Development Project
- Bolivia – Agrocapital
- Cape Verde – Microfinance Technical Support Project
- Central Asia – Central Asia Micro Finance Alliance (CAMFA)
- Central Asia – Central Asia Microfinance Alliance (CAMFA) II
- China – Planning Assistance for Rural Credit Cooperatives
- Egypt – MicroStart
- Egypt – Rural Cottage Industries Development Project
- Global – SEGIR Financial Sector II: Support for Economic Growth and Institutional Reform
- Honduras – Farmer Access to Credit
- Honduras – Financiera de Cooperativas Agropecuarias (FINACOOP)
- Iraq – Access to Credit Project
- Kazakhstan – KazMicroFinance LLC (KMF)
- Kyrgyzstan – Technical Assistance to the Bai-Tushum Financial Foundation
- Moldova & Ukraine – RAISE PLUS Agricultural Policy, Legal and Regulatory Reform Project
- Philippines – Cooperative Marketing Project
- Russia – Cooperative Development Program (CDP)
- Russia – Mobilizing Agricultural Credit Program (MAC)
- Russia – North Caucasus Rural Credit Cooperatives & Agribusiness Development Program (NC-RCC&AD)
- Russia – Sakhalin Regional Microcredit Program
- South Africa — Community Entrepreneurship & Business Initiative (CEBI)
- South Sudan – Generating Economic Development through Microfinance in Southern Sudan (GEMSS)
- Tajikistan & Uzbekistan – Ferghana Valley Regional Microfinance Program (FVRM)
- Ukraine – Grain Warehouse Receipt Program
- West Bank/Gaza – Small and Microfinance Assistance for Recovery and Transition Program (SMART)
