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Rural Finance via Value Chain Actors & Financial Institutions

Learn how the Value Chain Framework can enhance financial services for enterprises. Explore Value Chain Finance's role in fueling businesses and engaging with actors to innovate products and reach new markets. Discover examples and benefits of Value Chain Finance initiatives.

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Rural Finance via Value Chain Actors & Financial Institutions

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  1. THE VALUE CHAIN FRAMEWORK AND RURAL FINANCESEEP Annual Meeting October 2005 Bob Fries ACDI/VOCA

  2. KEY MESSAGES 1.The Value Chain Framework is useful forexpanding financial services and for developing enterprises. 2.Value Chain Finance is not new. It helps to fuel many enterprises. Can you believe it’s happened without us? 3.Financial institutions can learn from and engage more with value chain actors in order to develop new products and reach new markets.

  3. WHAT IS A VALUE CHAIN? Global Retailers National Retailers Sector-specific providers Exporters Wholesalers Processors/Traders Cross-cutting providers Producers Financial (cross cutting) Input Suppliers

  4. e.g., Credit bureaus, Auditors, Tech service providers Macro-Level The Enabling Environment e.g., Policy Legislation, Regulation, Supervision Meso-Level Financial Infrastructure Micro-Level e.g., Banks, MFIs, Insurers Retail Providers Clients In assessing financialmarkets… The greatest distinction between value chain and financial sector approach occurs at the core levels: • Clients • Retail Providers

  5. WE OFTEN THINK ABOUT FINANCING VALUE CHAINS VIA FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BANKS BANKS BANKS CREDIT UNIONS Non-Bank Financial Inst. BANKS CREDIT UNIONS NBFIs MicroFinance NGOs Global Retailers National Retailers Exporters Wholesalers Processors/Traders Producers Input Suppliers

  6. In Assessing Markets with VCA • Demand:Focuses on most relevant financial services demanded because they help targeted enterprises to take advantage of opportunities for growth • Supply:Identifies range of service providers, building on their records, perspectives and relationships

  7. VALUE CHAIN FRAMEWORK AND FINANCE Global Retailers Financial Services • Overdrafts/ lines of credit • Investments, loans or savings to fund upgrading • Working capital to purchase inputs or products • Seasonal production loans National Retailers Exporters Wholesalers Processors/Traders Producers Input Suppliers

  8. x BARRIERS TO ENTERING THE RURAL MARKET Costs and Risks • Dispersed market • Cost of infrastructure, communication and information • Seasonality • Shared production and price risks • Historic Subsidies • Limited collateral Financial Service Providers Producers

  9. VALUE CHAIN FINANCE - THREE EXAMPLES Contract Farming/ Outgrower Schemes • Loans linked to purchase agreements • High value • Trader Credit • Loan between buyer and seller • Grains and high value Warehouse Receipts • Loans backed by receipts issued by safe, secure warehouse

  10. VALUE CHAIN FINANCE - TRADER CREDIT • Benefits • Inputs and product sales • Higher yields • Bulk input purchases • Tap future production for collateral Global Retailers National Retailers Exporters Wholesalers • Learning • Business information used to screen customers Processors/Traders • Lessons for Financial Sector • Loan terms and structure reflect economic activity • Financial Sector can increase trader credit through loans to larger VC actors Producers Input Suppliers

  11. VALUE CHAIN FINANCE - OUTGROWER SCHEMES • Benefits • More secure product and market • Higher yields and quality • Bulk input purchases & product sales • Contracts for collateral, loan and sales terms, and product specs Global Retailers National Retailers Exporters Wholesalers • Learning • Business relations screen,train and monitorcustomers Processors/Traders • Lessons for Financial Sector • Loan terms and structure reflect economic activity • Financial Sector can increase trader credit through loans to larger VC actors Producers Input Suppliers

  12. VALUE CHAIN FINANCE - WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS Processors/Traders Receipt Warehouse Bank Producers • Benefits • Extended sales season, higher prices, lower losses • Bulk sales, sight-unseen transactions • Collateral based on secure product, legal receipts • Learning • Grading standards • Receipts provide screening and security to banks Producers

  13. VALUE CHAIN FINANCE LIMITS & POWER RELATIONSHIPS Power / Learning / Benefit • Exploitative pricing – Cotton in Ghana • Market information – Tea in Kenya • Trader competition – Traders in Zimbabwe

  14. Vertical transactions Make money on VC products Presence and depth of outreach Terms, conditions and risk/cost management fit economic activity Working capital to smaller players Embedded financial services – lower marginal costs, production and marketing benefits Horizontal transactions Financial products Outreach Potential Sound financial practices and technology Working capital to larger players, investment capital Efficiency of unbundled services VALUE CHAIN ACTORS & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSTHEIR RELEVANCE AND COMPLEMENTARY ROLES Rural Finance Through…. Value Chain Actors Financial Institutions

  15. Micro-Level Retail Providers e.g., Credit bureaus, Auditors, Tech service providers Clients Macro-Level The Enabling Environment e.g., Policy Legislation, Regulation, Supervision x Meso-Level Financial Infrastructure e.g., Banks, MFIs, Insurers IN CONCLUSION: TO EXPAND RURAL FINANCE AND ENTERPRISE GROWTH… Think outside between the boxes Investment Loans Upgrading Investment Loans Upgrading Financial Market Assessment Value Chain Analysis Financial Market Assessment Value Chain Analysis Financial Intermediation Embedded Services Financial Intermediation Embedded Services Financial Institutions Buyers and Processors Financial Institutions Competitiveness Cost recovery & risk management Buyers and Processors Banks and Producers Banks and Processors Competitiveness Cost recovery & risk management Banks and Producers Banks and Processors Financial Sustainability Economic Growth Financial Sustainability Economic Growth

  16. VALUE CHAIN FINANCE THANK YOU

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