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Partnership for Making Finance Work for Africa - Agricultural Finance -. GTZ Financial Systems Development Robin Hofmeister. 1. Financial System as Economic Engine . 2. Insufficient Finance for the Private Sector .
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Partnershipfor Making Finance Work forAfrica - AgriculturalFinance - GTZ Financial Systems Development Robin Hofmeister 1
Insufficient Finance for the Private Sector Increasing the level of credit going to the private sector to 25% of GDP - still a low income country level – will provide more than USD 70 billion of additional investment resources to African firms and households. 3
Variety of Approaches to Foster AgricFinance • Approaches • Agricultural Value Chain Finance • Agricultural Insurance • Smart Subsidies • RiskGuarantees • New Technologies • Innovative Financial Products • Risk Management Techniques • Financial Literacy • etc. Central Banks Commercial Banks Agribusinesses Knowledgescatteredamongstakeholders Microfinance Banks Development Partners Agric Banks etc. 4
Objectives of Partnership “Making Finance Work for Africa” • Knowledge Management / Communication Platform • Peer-to-Peer Network (> 1500) • Advocacy / Outreach • Donor Harmonization (Donor Mapping etc.) 5
MFW4A Priority: Agricultural Finance • MFW4A Priorities: • Legal, regulatory and judicial environment • Financial infrastructure • Role of Government in the Financial Sector • Comprehensive Financial Sector Policies • Diagnostics and Surveys • Financial Literacy • Agricultural Finance • New Financial Products and Innovation • Long-term Finance MFW4A Partnership Forum • About 350 Financial Sector Champions: • Government • Private Sector • Donors • Experts • Associations 6
MFW4A Activities on Agricultural Finance IdentificationofExistingKnowledgeon AgriculturalFinance Generation of New Knowledge on AgriculturalFinance MFW4A Communication Platform 7
MFW4A Activities on Agricultural Finance Internet www.MFW4A.org www.ruralfinance.org Events on AgriculturalFinance PolicyDialogue 8
Example: GTZ Studies on Agricultural Value Chain Finance • StructureofAssignment • Set offourreports on agriculturalvaluechainfinancein • Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopiaand Burkina Faso • Summaryreportwithsynthesizedfindings • MFW4A Communication Platform • Review ofdraftreportsby MFW4A community • Sharing offirstresults • MFW4A partnersbuildingownassignmnents on firstresults • Publicationof Final Results • Homepage • Conferences • etc. www.MFW4A.org 9