The summit will focus on strengthening agricultural value chains, enhancing rural finance mechanisms and promoting sustainable farming practices to drive economic resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This course delves into the synergy between agriculture value chains and green finance, equipping participants with the knowledge and skills to create sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems. 

This program is designed to equip practitioners in microcredit, microfinance and rural banking with tools and strategies to drive financial inclusion and economic growth in underserved communities.

This blog summarizes cross-cutting findings from a series of case studies highlighting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Village Enterprise’s and SEWA’s climate-smart innovations from the FinEquity Community that use financial coupled with non-financial interventions that are seeing to improve women’s resilience to climate events. What are we learning?

This blog is part of a FinEquity blog series highlighting how organizations in the Community of Practice are thinking about improving women’s resilience to climate events through inclusive finance, analyzing some recent trends, and providing some recommendations for those supporting innovators on this journey.

In partnership with Agora Microfinance, Synergy Seeds, and the Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Africa, ACRE Africa kicked off a financial literacy training program aimed at empowering 85,000 smallholder farmers across Zambia by December 2025

The objective of this study is to explore how to facilitate data-driven financing by consolidating fragmented farmer data into a centralized platform.

Claire Lossiané of YIKRI, winner of the 2023 European Microfinance Award, reflects on the MFI’s programs to combat malnutrition.

Reflections on the climate session held in the FinEquity Africa Annual Convening 2024 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, exploring challenges and proposing what will be required for approaches with effective design and delivery of climate-smart financial solutions that will help women build resilience.  

This case study shares extensive recommendations to the trader, its financial investors, the government, and other stakeholders based on the findings.