The African Inclusive Finance Week, SAM 2025 will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on October 13th -17th 2025 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, KICC. The five-day event will feature conferences, training and workshop opportunities, an Investor Fair, an Innovators’ Village and field visits.
A SSNUP-coordinated perception survey of project beneficiaries showed that cooperatives gained improved access to financing from the microfinance institution Chamroeun while the farmers enjoyed better crop yields thanks to better inputs and training.
For the three young Matute brothers, the Cacao Embassy journey began in the family kitchen. In 2018, Pablo, the youngest, was organising tourist visits to cocoa farms. To gain the farmers’ trust, he bought cocoa beans from them, which he stored at his parents’ home. However, the beans were difficult to preserve because of their strong smell.
ADA leverages inclusive finance to improve the living conditions of vulnerable populations with a focus on strengthening agricultural and forestry value chains, supporting young entrepreneurs and giving vulnerable households access to basic services.
The project by responsAbility expanded Arya.ag’s storage, financing and market access services to more farmers and their cooperatives via dedicated trainers and a digital platform.
The SSNUP programme co-financed a project by impact investor Oikocredit that supported the microinsurance broker Inclusive Guarantee in distributing agricultural index insurance products to smallholder farmers in Senegal. SSNUP commissioned an in-depth survey to follow up the project based on interviews with smallholder farmers and other project stakeholders to gain a better understanding of the results and the impact.
