The Rural Finance Initiative (RUFI) is a microfinance institution which started in South Sudan in 2008. They expanded to Uganda in 2017 to follow clients who were fleeing civil unrest in their home country. RUFI’s Uganda operations provide business loans and some cross border financial services directly to refugees living …

In a country where only 15% of people access electricity BrightLife is a new social enterprise that is bridging the gap between suppliers of quality solar and stove technologies and the poor by bringing in responsible financers like FINCA Uganda (and eventually BRAC and other MFIs) who can make these …

In 2011 with support from One Acre Fund, MyAgro founder Anushka moved to Mali to test her layaway payment model for seeds and fertilizer and training. In the face of these enormous challenges, farmers continued to make payments through their mobile phones in advance of planting season to pay for …

Bidhaa Sasa launched operations in Western Kenya in 2015. They offer affordable, high quality products to rural clients using Grameen style small group credit. Products are available on demand, year round, and are all below $100. As of 5/31/2018, the company has sold almost 12,000 products on credit to farmers …

Honduras FUNDER’s mission is to promote participatory rural business development processes through efficient and effective training, technical assistance and access to credit for rural savings banks, micro-enterprises, agribusiness and renewable energy initiatives with the objective to improve the quality of in a sustainable way.

The Fundacion Apoyo Medio Ambiente is based in Juticalpa, Olancho and has 13 branches in 10 departments around the country. Focused on group lending methodologies which make up about 63% of total clients and have 69% women at the institutional level. Strong rural presence with 72% of borrowers in remote …

SolCom (Soluciones Comunitarias) was founded in 2005 with eight local entrepreneurs that were part of the pilot started by Community Enterprise Solutions the year before to address the issue of access to energy-efficient cook stoves in rural communities of Guatemala. SolCom has since branched out into offering solar lanterns, water …

Farmerline seeks to transform smallholder farmers into successful entrepreneurs by increasing their access to information, inputs, and markets to increase productivity. Farmerline began as a mobile app for smallholder farmers that could provide real time data on weather and market prices along with farm training to improve farmer yields. However …

Buusaa Gonofaa began in 1999 as a spin off of local non-profit HUNDEE which still controls the mission of the MFI. Provides various tailored loan products to the poor including collateral-free loans to small groups of farmers in the form of in-kind agriculture inputs delivered directly to the client.

Acceso’s pioneering ‘seed to market’ approach builds the whole supply chain between smallholder farmers and formal markets, helping its producer members to build the operational infrastructure needed to get their produce to market, and then selling it for them. Acceso’s offer to members is distinctly accessible since Acceso neither charges …