Opportunities

The Financing Facility for Remittances (FFR) of IFAD through its program, Platform for Remittances, Investments and Migrants’ Entrepreneurship in Africa (PRIME Africa) which is being co-financed by the European Union aims to reduce inequality and enhance financial inclusion in Africa through reduction of remittance costs and maximization of their impact. The call aims to support finance initiatives that will achieve the below objectives: Reduce international remittance transaction costs – Contribute to reducing international remittance transfer costs and increase access to and use...

Deadline: 7th July, 20121 The Alliance for a green Africa (AGRA) is currently receiving proposals for its innovation grant under its program, VALUE4HER, Africa’s first women in agribusiness integrated digital resource designed to assist women agri-enterprises transcend gender and market entry barriers, build upon digital technologies capabilities to connect, amplify and deliver customized service. The VALUE4HER Innovant grant is to catalyze, incubate, consolidate the approach for women to women supply chains, to reach women micro-entrepreneurs and or women farmers. The VALUE4HER project...

Deadline:15th June 2021 Kakuma Kalobeyei Challenge Fund (KKCF) is a five-year programme (that is currently in its first year of implementation) designed to support private sector investment and unlock the economic potential of refugees and their hosts in the Kakuma-Kalobeyei refugee-hosting area in northern Kenya. KKCF aims to attract private companies and support local entrepreneurs to create jobs and improve service provision in the Kakuma area. The program targets all private sector players, from small companies and medium-sized family businesses to social...

The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) is currently receiving proposals for country and producer organizations led agriculture projects in the context of the ongoing Covid19 global pandemic. This funding will support medium- to long-term COVID-19 response efforts for a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient recovery of agriculture and food systems in a changing climate. The Country-led modality aims to fund projects that support eligible countries to address priority public sector investments and enable private sector development opportunities in line...

The USAID’s Kenya Investment Mechanism (KIM) is looking for a Gender Finance Consultant to support its Women’s Economic Empowerment. Specifically , to conduct a Gender Opportunity Assessment (GOA) developed by Palladium with two (2) partner financial institutions. The GOA is a data-driven assessment of the business case for financial institutions to expand their focus on W-SMEs. The assessment benchmarks the FI’s gender performance against peer institutions and identifies opportunities to better serve W-SMEs. The assessment evaluates strategy, leadership and...

Are you an agri-tech startup in Africa? Is access to finance still a challenge and would you like to scale up your start up to the next level? Our partner Small Foundation and Founders Factory Africa (FFA) are looking for innovative African AgriTech startups to transform business models and improve delivery of a range of services to smallholder farmers and micro, small and medium sized enterprises in the agricultural sector. Startups across the agriculture value chain which are addressing bottlenecks...

The African Rural and Agricultural Association (AFRACA) with funding support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through its Multidisciplinary Fund (MDF) is currently implementing a ten-month project on “Financing Innovation for Sustainable Fisheries with the Private Sector” which aims to support fishing businesses in Kenya access formal micro-finance and credit resources enabling them to innovate and scale up their fishing activities. We are excited to share with you this scholarship opportunity on governance of Fisheries Activities...

Are you a smallholder farmer, farmers’ leader or an aggregator? NIRSAL PLC is calling on all smallholder farmers, farmer leaders and aggregators particularly for dry season and non-seasonal commodities to take advantage of the NIRSAL AgroGeoCoop® formation exercise which is currently structuring smallholder farmers for access to finance, trainings, markets and more. Apply today to be part of the 16,000 Agro Geo-Cooperatives that will be formed on 4 million hectares of farmland which aims to enroll approximately 8 million farmers across Nigeria...