Our key programmes in 2025

ADA leverages inclusive finance to improve the living conditions of vulnerable populations with a focus on strengthening agricultural and forestry value chains, supporting young entrepreneurs and giving vulnerable households access to basic services.

In the year 2025, this will mainly be achieved via the following key programmes:

• SSNUP (Smallholder Safety Net Upscaling Programme), an international smallholder farmer support programme coordinated by ADA that aims at increasing the productivity and resilience of smallholder farmers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. SSNUP co-finances technical assistance projects designed and set up by impact investors to support smallholder farmers and value chain actors such as SMEs, agricultural cooperatives, MFIs and other agricultural financial intermediaries. 
   
• F2.0 is an online platform to give smallholder farmers and cooperatives easier access to financing. The platform connects smallholder farmers and cooperatives with MFIs to give them access to tailored and efficient agricultural financing. In addition, streamlined input and stock management increases the profitability of the cooperatives, strengthens income security for farmers and reduces risk for the MFIs.
   
• The Inclusive Climate Finance Initiative (ICFI) strives to channel international climate funding and impact investment to the people who need it most. To this end, the programme aims to both increase the supply of financing on the one hand and to facilitate the adaptation of vulnerable populations to climate change on the other hand. The programme is being implemented through regional projects in Asia and Fiji as well as in Central America and the Dominican Republic with international and local partners.
   
• ADA’s programme for strengthening forestry value chains takes into account the specific needs of small-scale foresters. To this end, ADA aims to connect different actors and to provide tailored financing and training to different types of forestry professionals such as forest owners and micro to medium-sized wood-processing businesses.
   
• The Green Energy for Rural Development programme (EVER) seeks to secure access to energy and to increase the impact thereof by supporting solar mini-grid operators. ADA also helps the operators’ customers use the energy productively by promoting entrepreneurship through energy-efficient equipment and financial services.