Analysis of financing needs
Description
The survey’s goal was to contribute to the definition of a project that will be co-financed by AFD and the European Union and aim at supporting the improvement of the financing offer towards the agriculture sector, in addition to providing operational recommendations to contribute to improving this financing offer. The survey presented a qualitative analysis of financing needs, financing supply and perspectives, as well as of the structures providing support and advice to the agriculture sector, insofar as they can contribute to improve financing.
Services
Demand Analysis
- Analysis of secondary data and interviews of resource persons.
- Focus groups to characterize the financial services demand, their present coverage, the constraints to their access, as well as the demand for support and advisory services conducted by:
- operator type (farmer organisation/ production/ processing/ distribution or export)
- value chain: specific needs of the value chain, constraints and opportunities specific to the value chain (2 value chains: the dairy and the horticulture sectors: description of interaction between actors; actors funding needs and present coverage assessment; synthesis of funding needs by type; synthesis of provision of support services)
Supply Analysis
- Conducting interviews of resource persons to get a general vision of the supply of finance to the agriculture sector and to identify the most involved financial actors.
- Conducting interviews with the 4 to 5 most involved financial institutions to assess their offer to the agriculture sector, their strategy and the resources they allot to these activities.
Funding Gap
- Description of the funding gap and credit needs at different levels.
- Identifying the main constraints impeding coverage of funding needs.
Review Of Support And Advisory Services Providers
- Review of support and advisory services providers (BDS, advisory services to smallholders, chamber of agriculture, marketing associations, cooperatives…) providing services to actors in agriculture value chains.
- Conducting interviews with the main providers of support and advisory services to assess their supply, their sustainability and partnership opportunities, in a perspective of contributing to improving the funding of agriculture.
- The analysis of the supply of support and advisory services covered:
- Targeted sectors and types of operators;
- Types of services offered
- Access conditions
- Organization and sustainability of these structures
- Constraints and support