Linking agri-businesses with the finance community, social
impact funds, through which women-agri- entrepreneurs can
develop and upscale their businesses
Agri-business B2B Partnerships, engaging the private sector in
the drive to bring new agri-equipment, food processing
technology, packaging to the agri-value and food supply chains
in Africa
The AWE Impact Investment Hub provides agri-businesses with
technical capacity building. and support at all stages of their
growth cycle. Through the work of our members, field experts, and
investment team, we:
Identify and assess risks for women led agri-business projects.
Assess and assist women ensuring their projects have a scalable
social, environmental and climate-resilient business model.
Provide technical assistance, in the form of training and
coaching to support women agri-entrepreneurs to raise capital
and reach bankable status.
Accompany our AWE investees throughout their financing journey.
Provide a platform for public and private investors and
investees to discuss projects.
Undertake market studies and gap analysis for funds or private
companies to assess the situation of women-led value chains they
are considering for investment.
Support agri-businesses who wish to invest in strengthening
their supply chains with a gender lens.
Provide financial and agri-business market advice on how to
position agri-products, run an ethical and sustainable
agri-business and agri-service positively impacting women.
Pillar 2:
We link women in agri-business to the finance community
The AWE Impact Investment Hub holds a valuable pipeline of
projects ready for investment. Through the work of our investment
and technical advisory team, we:
Link our most promising agri-business entrepreneurs with the
finance community, social responsible investors that commit to
our principles of investing for impact.
Work with international financial service providers providing,
debt, equity, mezzanine finance as well as insurance products.
Pre-vet the projects with AWE technical experts before
presenting them to any investment officers.
Defend the interests of the agri-businesses and only facilitate
access to socially responsible investors who wish to accelerate
their gender lens investment portfolio.
Serve as a bridge between the public investment and private
investment by sourcing, vetting, carrying out risk assessments
through our network of experts in African Caribbean and Pacific
countries.
Work with local commercial banks with a gender lens and interest
in growing their agri-business portfolio and women SME customer
base.
Bridge the investment risk gap by securing institutional funds
and first loss guarantees through local financial institutions.
Pillar 3: B2B Agri-business and Food Technology
Partnerships
The AWE Impact Investment Hub encourages private sector actors to
become partners. Through the work of our field experts and
technical advisory team, we:
Facilitate B2B partnerships with agri-business buyers and
suppliers of agricultural technical equipment or know-how and
provide access to production & processing technology.
Establish partnerships geared towards agri-enterprise
modernisation and competitive needs.
Assist European SME’s, Agri-business companies with identifying
possibilities of adaptation of their technologies to meet the
needs of the African, regional, local, agricultural sector.
Work with private companies wishing to increase their
gender-focus and impact.
Boost the gender lens in support provided to commodity
agri-value-chains ie cocoa and coffee.
Provide government and public relations support, to ensure
compliancy and alignment with trade policies and raise awareness
amongst.