CALL FOR INFORMATION
FINANCIAL INNOVATION FOR SMALLHOLDER FARMING FAMILIES
Deadline for submission is March 7, 2014. Please reply to all the questions below and send your
responses to smallholders@cgap.org.
Section I. About your organization
1. Full name of organization
(and website if available)
2. Type of organization (e.g. producer
organization, NGO, credit union or
cooperative, bank, non-bank financial
institution, retail business, value chain
actor, other)
3. Date organization started operations
(MM/YYYY)
4. Contact person (name, title, years of
employment in organization, phone
number and email address)
5. Secondary contact within the
organization, if available (name, title
and email address)
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6. Whom do you reach?
Please indicate approximately the share of each segment as a % of your total clients and the number of years
you have spent working with each segment.
Approximate Share
of Clients (%)
Non-Commercial Smallholders
•
•
•
Farm for subsistence and produce
for household consumption
Grow staple crops and/or hold
livestock
Generally supplement income with
off-farm activities
….%
Smallholders in Loose Value Chains
•
•
•
Generally grow staple crops for
household consumption
Regularly generate small surpluses
sold in local/informal markets
No stable relationship exists
between producer and buyers
…%
Commercial Smallholder Farmers
•
•
•
Grow cash and
higher value crops
Operate in “tight” value
chains where producer-buyer
relationships are strong
There is generally one or a few
buyers and no side-selling
….%
Other Rural Clients
•
Could include enterprises in rural
areas not dedicated to farming
activities (agriculture or livestock
raising)
…%
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Years Served
Section II. Tell us about your approach to serving smallholder families1
7. Please describe your product/service or business model targeting smallholder farming
families. Explain why you are targeting them, what obstacles your product/service aims to
overcome and how you succeeded. Please include a description of the solution, the
methodology and channel used, the date of introduction, and the specific characteristics of
the product/service your organization introduced. Also outline what challenges remain. You
may write up to 1000 words (per product/service).
8. What is the current scale of the product or service you are offering smallholder families?
a) Number of clients:……of which …% men and ….% women
(if you do not have gender break down, please give an estimate)
b) Geographic reach of services:
service offering nationwide in……………. (name country)
service offered in the following areas……….
c) Value of outstanding portfolio of the product or service:………..
(please specify the currency)
9. Do you know for what purpose smallholder families primarily use your product or service?
Yes /
No
If yes, please tick what is applicable:
Agricultural production for market
Meet household needs
Support non-agricultural enterprise activity
Other, please specify…
10. Is the product or service you are offering financially viable?
Yes /
No /
Not yet, but on a path to achieve it /
Don’t know
In case you have more than one product/service, please respond to questions 6-10 for each of
them.
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11. Has your organization received technical or financial support to develop the product or
service?
Yes /
No
If yes, please check what for (all that apply):
Product development
Market research
Guarantee
Credit line for on-lending
Operational subsidies
Education/training of clients in uptake of product/service
Other, please specify………………………
12. If you’ve received external support, who provided it? (Name of organization, contact
person, telephone and email)
Section III: Sharing learning
13. What are some of the key lessons other providers could learn from your experiences
(positive or negative)? You may write up to 200 words.
14. Has your experience already been featured or evaluated in some way?
Yes /
No
If yes, please indicate how or where we can learn more.
15. Would your organization be willing to work with CGAP researchers to develop a detailed
case study?
Yes /
No
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