Opportunities

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...

Deadline: 7th May 2021 AGRA is seeking concept notes from credible organizations that offer sustainable, scalable, and innovative solutions that improve the reliability and provide assurance on the financial statements of Agricultural SMEs. These solutions might include financial management and record keeping tools, audit solutions, alternative financial reporting systems, digital record keeping, etc. More reliable financial statements increase the chance of Agri SMEs to access funding and investment opportunities. Do you have a solution to these questions? What innovative solutions can support SMEs to...

Self Help Africa is currently managing the AgriFI Challenge Fund on behalf of the EU. This is an €18M fund to support agricultural businesses to increase their sourcing capacity through working with smallholder farmers. The organization is looking for a dynamic proactive and result oriented individual to head the AgriFI- Value Chain Implementation Team and provide strategic leadership technical oversight and direct management of the programme – in particular the EUR 18M challenge fund. Essential1. In depth knowledge of agricultural finance, banking...