VALUE4HER Climate Adaptation Evidence and Finance Readiness Facility for Women-Led Agribusiness SMEs
This initiative helps women-led agribusinesses across Africa organize and communicate their climate adaptation evidence to improve climate finance readiness and business resilience.
Overview
The VALUE4HER Climate Adaptation Evidence and Finance Readiness Facility seeks to address the gap where adaptation practices implemented by small and medium-sized agribusinesses are not captured in formal climate adaptation evidence systems or investment materials. Anchored in AGRA’s VALUE4HER platform and implemented through a partnership with CGIAR—specifically the Alliance of Bioversity International-CIAT and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)—the facility helps women-led agribusiness SMEs identify, organize, strengthen, package, and communicate the climate adaptation evidence they already generate.
The initiative combines practical support mechanisms, such as small grants and technical assistance, to help businesses make better use of existing operational information like production records, market information, and climate-risk data.
Benefits
- Access to small grants that complement technical assistance and evidence-development activities.
- Technical assistance focused on climate adaptation evidence, data organization, impact measurement, climate-risk assessment, and evidence packaging.
- Participation in climate adaptation masterclasses led by CGIAR technical expertise.
- Support in transforming scattered business information into structured evidence products.
- Climate finance readiness support to better engage with potential investors and financial institutions.
Eligibility
- Leadership: The business must be led by women or majority-owned by women.
- Business Model: Applicants should have a functioning and established business model with registered or formally operating status.
- Climate Relevance: The SME must demonstrate either existing climate adaptation practices or meaningful exposure to climate risks.
- Operational Evidence: Applicants should possess existing information that can be organized into useful evidence, such as production, market, or operational records.
- Finance Interest: An established interest in using adaptation evidence for climate finance, investor engagement, or business growth.
- Geography and Sector: Eligible businesses must operate within Africa across agricultural and food-system value chains, including production, processing, aggregation, input distribution, logistics, advisory services, and market access.
How to Apply
Interested candidates can submit applications through the official portal. Applicants are advised to verify the official Expression of Interest announcement for complete submission guidelines.
Deadline
The implementation period spans August through December 2026, but the source text does not state a specific application or Expression of Interest deadline.