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Rural Finance and Investment Insights: December 2020
Note from the editor
As we all experienced, in one way or another, 2020 has been a year full of opportunities and challenges. Global food production is undoubtedly among the most challenging ones. Addressing this challenge will require significant investments in the agrifood sector. Access to finance will be critical in enabling these investments.
While we are heading towards the most magical time of the year, we have prepared for you some useful reference material for holiday readings with the hope to contribute to improving access to finance for agrifood value chain actors including small farmers, women and youths.
We wish you a Merry Christmas, happy holiday and a prosperous New Year!
Highlights of the month
Digital Transformation of Rural and Agricultural Finance Program (RAFP)
The Boulder Institute of Microfinance, in partnership with the Capacity Building in Rural Finance (CABFIN) Partnership, is pleased to announce its first Online Masterclass series, featuring sector leaders who will present their experience and concrete cases.
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THE RFILC’S STUDY REVIEW SERIES
This new blog series aims to provide an in-depth review and commentary on some of the most notable publications in the domain of development finance and financial inclusion that have recently emerged.
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Agricultural finance and the youth: prospeacts for financial inclusion in Kenya
The study sets out to analyze the core constraints and opportunities associated with the provision of tailored financial services to young Kenyans while showcasing the essential role that key supporting actors can play in fostering the provision and uptake of such services.
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Call for Application: RfA: Investment projects focused on agro-processing in Northern Uganda (START Funding Facility for SMEs)
START Facility is inviting proposals for commercially viable investment projects focused on agro-processing / value addition. Priority will be given to enterprises contribute to economic empowerment of women and youth, refugee hosting areas and leverage the refugee potential for local development as well as to projects that aim at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities.
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Library
- Upscaling and Integrating Gender Savings Groups Into the Formal Financial System
- Integrating Forcibly Displaced Persons Into a National Financial Inclusion Strategy
- Digital Financial Services Supervision in Bangladesh
- Malawi Financial Inclusion Refresh
- Weathering the Storm II: A Case Study of Vitas Palestine
- How Can Developing Countries Reduce Financial Exclusion? A Critical Review of Nigeria’s Financial Inclusion Strategy
- Demand analysis on remittances in West African Francophone countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal
- Savings Groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on Financial Inclusion
- How risky is too risky? The impact of risk perception on uptake of agricultural insurance
- It’s a matter of faith: the role of trust in agricultural insurance
- A Research and Learning Agenda for the Impact of Financial Inclusion
- Blended Finance in the LDCs 2020
- Agricultural finance and the youth: prospeacts for financial inclusion in Kenya
- State of the Digital Financial Services Market in Zambia 2019
Learning
Events
- Call for Application: RfA: Investment projects focused on agro-processing in Northern Uganda (START Funding Facility for SMEs)
- Evaluation and Support for Improving Inclusive Green Finance for MFIs – The Green Index
- Inclusive Finance India Initiative
- Dialogue to implementation--“Remittance families”
- Global Forum on Remittances, Investment and Development (GFRID)