As part of its strategic priority to provide vulnerable households and young entrepreneurs with access to basic services and renewable energy, ADA is actively seeking new partnerships with other development and local actors in these sectors.
The FAR course strengthened participants' agricultural finance skills and helped them develop innovative solutions for rural financial inclusion, notably through an online course by IFAD's Tara James on climate risks and agricultural insurance.
In partnership with the Luxembourgish Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade (MFA) and the MAIN network (Microfinance African Institutions Network) based in Togo, ADA (Appui au développement autonome) is launching a call for applications for host countries for the next edition of the African Inclusive Finance Week (SAM) in October 2025.
The stakeholders of the ADA-coordinated Smallholder Safety Net Upscaling Programme (SSNUP) met in Luxembourg for a two-day workshop on 18 and 19 March to take stock of the first phase of the programme and to plan the next one.
Between 2021 and 2023, the microfinance institution Chamroeun Microfinance Plc. - investee of Oikocredit - successfully implemented a project co-funded by SSNUP to improve farmer cooperatives' investment readiness in Cambodia.
In 2022, with funding from the SSNUP, responsAbility launched a successful project, providing coffee producers from two Peruvian cooperatives with a mobile application to access agricultural and weather information.
