The purpose of this technical assistance programme is to support access to finance for the agricultural sector in Malawi and Zambia by (i) enhancing financial institution’s capacity to assess, execute and monitor longer-term investment projects in agri-food value chains that aim to integrate smallholder farmers in the respective value chain and (ii) supporting potential final beneficiary enterprises and groups of smallholder farmers to develop market linkages through off-take and service provision agreements and enhance group capabilities to develop and implement viable investment projects.
The Programme is expected to strengthen capacities of several stakeholders, by providing guidance and tools on integrating smallholders into agricultural value chains.
Imani Development was contracted to provide technical support to ensure credit facility compliance with EIB processes and requirements, design and deliver tailor made capacity building and training to financial institutions.