Webinar | Unlocking Finance for Farmer Organizations
đź“… Date: 6 November 2025
🕑 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 (CET)
đź“Ť Location: Zoom (registration required)
🎤 Speakers
James Masau
Senior Project Officer – Agriculture, Oikocredit
James will share Oikocredit’s experience in working with farmer organizations, lessons from financial readiness assessments, and how AgriGRADE tools help de-risk agri-lending.
Martha Irungu
BDS and Inclusive Finance, Africa Turnaround Limited (ATL)
Martha brings hands-on experience in enterprise development and capacity building. She’ll speak about ATL’s approach to strengthening cooperatives and linking them to markets and finance.
About the Webinar
Farmer organizations are critical players in strengthening rural economies, but access to finance remains one of their biggest hurdles. Join us for a focused conversation on how professionalization, data, and targeted support can unlock financing opportunities for these organizations.
This webinar brings together insights from the AgriGRADE program in Kenya and Tanzania, sharing field-tested strategies and lessons learned from working directly with farmer organizations and financial institutions.
Whether you’re a development practitioner, financier, or agri-business stakeholder, this session will give you practical insights into what makes a farmer organization finance-ready—and how partnerships can accelerate access to capital.
Who Should Attend
- Financial institutions
- NGOs
- Donors
- Agri-businesses
- BDS providers
- Farmer organization leaders
What You’ll Learn
- What “finance-readiness” really means for farmer organizations
- Common challenges and practical interventions that work
- How to use data to guide investment decisions
- Real stories from the field—what’s working, and what’s not
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