USAID Invest DRC Cocoa and Coffee Sector Guides

These reports, produced by USAID’s Investment Facilitation Activity in the DRC (USAID Invest, or the Activity), provide an overview of the cocoa and coffee sectors in the DRC. The reports highlight production trends, challenges, and opportunities.…

Resource - Technical Brief

USAID’S DRC Investment Facilitation Activity Capital Map Report 2021

This capital map report provides an overview of the landscape of investors in the DRC, a high-level analysis of key investment trends in the DRC and examines potential risks investors face and subsequent mitigation strategies.
Resource - Capital Map Report

Engaging the Private Sector to Achieve Health Outcomes

Private sector engagement is critical to achieving inclusive growth and ensuring sustainable health outcomes.
Resource - Fact Sheet

Blended Finance Technical Briefs Primer

Chemonics International’s Private Sector Engagement team, in collaboration with Dalberg and KOIS, has developed a series of technical briefs to enrich the technical knowledge of the development community around blended finance in the areas of agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes. This primer provides a targeted, high-level overview of blended finance mechanisms to contextualize these sector-specific technical briefs.
Resource - Technical Brief

Effectively Utilizing Repayable Grants to Help Facilitate Market Creation

Key Insights From the International and Development Finance Institutions on How to Harness Repayable Grants to Build Financial Ecosystems and Nascent Businesses
Resource - Paper

Blended Finance Technical Briefs

Chemonics’ Center for Private Sector Engagement, in collaboration with Dalberg and KOIS, developed technical briefs on blended finance in the areas of agricultural finance, gender lens investing, healthcare services, health supply chains, and sustainable landscapes.
Resource - Technical Brief

Technical Brief: Helping Rural Financial Institutions Expand Rural Service Delivery

Through five working principles, USAID’s Rural Finance Initiative served as central change agents by providing highly customized advisory services, mixing expertise from the Colombian financial sector and the development community. This reached more than 750,000 rural clients and mobilize $999 million in financial services.
Resource - Technical Brief

Strengthening the Agricultural Lending in the Democratic Republic of Congo

This agricultural lending toolkit outlines a package of resources to support banks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other emerging economies to increase their comfort with and capacity to extend agricultural lending.
Resource - Toolkit

Intermediary Business Models for Improved Market System Processes and Relationships

The goal of the technical brief series on the Feed the Future Uganda Commodity Production and Marketing (CPM) activity is to share learning, scalable approaches, and practical steps for the agriculture sector growth in Uganda.
Resource - Technical Brief

Final Report: Pakistan FIRMS Project

The Pakistan FIRMS Project solidified the viability of small- and medium-sized businesses, their labor force, and the financial institutions that support them.
Resource - Project Report

A Facilitation Approach to Youth Workforce Development and Entrepreneurship

The Feed the Future Uganda Youth Leadership for Agriculture Activity bridged the gap between youth and the private sector by using a facilitation approach.
Resource - Technical Brief

Maximizing Business Value from Sustainability Investments Table

In Nigeria’s agricultural sector, USAID’s Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites project improved productivity, incomes, resilience, and access to diverse quality foods. The project played a key role in scaling up agricultural technology interventions to meet market demand and alleviate rural poverty.
Resource - Fact Sheet