SEEP partnered with ACCION, American Refugee Committee, Caja Nor, EDA Rural Systems, IDEI, Kenya BDS, MEDA and ABW in its Strategic Alliances for Financial Services and Market Linkages in Rural Areas Practitioner Learning Program. The USAID-funded program explored and tested strategic methods for facilitating rural access to financing, thus enabling rural farmers to overcome financial constraints by investing in capital upgrades. One learning product was produced as a result of the PLP grant.

• The Missing Link in the Value Chain: Financing for Rural Farmers and Microentrepreneurs (2005)
• Making Risk-Sharing Models Work with Farmers, Agribusinesses, and Financial Institutions (2007)
• Rural Finance for Value Chains Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2006)
• Rural Finance for Value Chains Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2006)

Donor: USAID

Partner Organizations: ABW, ACCION, American Refugee Committee, Caja Nor, EDA Rural Systems, IDEI, Kenya BDS, MEDA