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Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion for Strengthening Climate Resilience
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In collaboration with Tecnológico de Monterrey, KIT Institute is implementing a project funded by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, entitled “Financial Inclusion for Strengthening Climate Resilience: Exploring Adaptation Strategies and Supply Chain Impacts on Latin American Coffee Farmers.” As part of this project, KIT Institute conducted a comprehensive literature review to examine existing adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture, with a particular […]

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What is the development impact of vertical coordination in agricultural value chains in LMICs?
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This literature review examines how vertical coordination—tighter corporate control across agricultural value chains—affects development outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Having reviewed 19 academic studies on evidence-based outcomes of vertical coordination, the focus of the analysis is on three main impact areas: (1) local economic development, (2) local job creation, and (3) the inclusion of […]

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EmpowHER
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Through tailored training and support, this programme aims to equip VSLAs to meet the criteria for formal financial institution approval, enabling farming households to access essential savings and loan services that could drive income growth and economic resilience.

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Demand-side research on migrant remittances
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In 2020, an estimated 3.6 percent (281 million people) of the global population were migrants. The officially recorded flow of remittances from migrants to low- and middle-income countries reached USD 540 billion in 2020. Remittances represent a large component of GDP for many receiving countries and are a major supporting income stream for many households. […]

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Applying a Gender Lens to Cocoa Cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire
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Women living in cocoa growing communities in Côte d’Ivoire are disproportionately excluded from participating in cooperatives or benefiting from them. To address this gender inequality, a gender lens was applied to Rabo Partnership and Barry Callebaut’s ‘Empowering the Middle Program’. Specific entry points and activities were designed to promote women’s inclusion and elevate their status […]

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Why a segmentation strategy matters for serving the women’s market
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Insights from Access Bank market research Financial Service Providers are increasingly realising that needs and preferences differ across the female economy. Differences vary depending on women’s age, class, ethnicity, marital status, religion, wealth, stage of business, profession, location and other socially defined characteristics and markers. These factors all influence and impact the way different women […]

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Studying the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers in Africa
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AATIF provides technical assistance to smallholder farmers in strategic value chains in which their investees and pipeline companies operate. KIT was asked to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic affected vulnerable groups in eight value chains across Ivory Coast (cocoa, cashew), Kenya (dairy) and Zambia (maize, wheat, cotton, soybean, sunflower). Obtaining an early overview of the effects of the pandemic on smallholder farmers and their incomes will […]

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OeEB Gender Action Plan
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Beginning in 2019, KIT worked with the Austrian Development Bank to develop a 5-year Gender Action Plan to highlight key steps and targets for integrating gender into the bank’s investment processes, for different sectors and portfolios. OeEB is committed to contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 5 on Gender Equality and the empowerment […]

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Gender Integration with Climate Fund Managers
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KIT Royal Tropical Institute supported Climate Fund Managers (CFM) to integrate gender into their investment process. KIT conducted desk-based gender assessments of the renewable energy sector in 14 countries across African and Asia. Guided by this assessment, KIT worked with CFM to develop a gender integration action plan for CFM’s Climate Investor One financing facility. […]

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The Power of Partnerships Event
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On 12 March 2018, KIT Royal Tropical Institute, FMO, Better Future and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted an event on how we can make finance work for women entrepreneurs. Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands offered the keynote speech at the event. “Around 80 percent of formal, women-owned MSMEs do not have […]

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Better Serving Women, Youth and Migrant Entrepreneurs with the NASIRA Programme
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KIT Royal Tropical Institute – in consortium with Access Alliance – is a shortlisted service provider under a four year agreement to support FMO’s financial institution clients, participating in the NASIRA Programme, to (better) serve women, young- and migrant entrepreneurs. What is NASIRA? In December 2018, FMO and the European Commission signed an agreement for […]

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Strengthening Access Bank’s W-Initiative
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In partnership with Palladium, KIT Royal Tropical Institute is supporting Access Bank to become the bank of choice for women. Understanding the women’s market in Ghana, Rwanda, Zambia & Nigeria The W Initiative is Access Bank’s approach to segmenting and serving the women’s market and positioning itself as the bank of choice for women. Launched […]

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