Innovation & Tools

Our action groups support financial innovation and impact measurement to scale investment in agrifood systems

Action Group 1: Financial Innovation

Group Leads: Acumen and CSAF

Action Group 1 (AG1) supports innovation in evidence-based finance vehicles through technical assistance and learning. It also develops an investment pipeline with climate and nature impacts by sharing experiences from the Connector.

Past Meetings: AG1

Session Theme
InsuranceGenderLocal Financial InstitutionsImpact Investing
Member Lead
UNDPRoot Capital & AcumenAceli Africa & AV Ventures Acumen

Financial instruments supported by AG1 through the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance

InvestHer Climate Resilience Bond

The InvestHER Climate Resilience Bond is Uganda’s first gender and climate bond and among the few in Africa designed to mobilize finance to address both challenges in the agricultural sector. Supported by the Grameen Foundation, the bond is designed to increase the accessibility and affordability of credit for growth-stage agri-SMEs and rural agri-MSMEs.
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IREN AGRI

The IREN AGRI initiative sets out to accelerate agricultural transition and financial inclusion across agricultural commodity chains in Africa, starting with Côte d’Ivoire and neighboring West African nations. It is a partnership between the French banking group Société Générale and Ksapa, a mission-driven corporation that provides scalable solutions to catalyze a fair and efficient transition through its SUTTI solution to improve the livelihoods of smallholders.
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Action Group 2

Tools, Methods and Knowledge Co-Creation

Action Group 2 (AG2) promotes the use of evidence-based physical climate risk and climate and nature and impact assessment for investment decisions.​ It integrates practitioner experiences into knowledge products for circulation within the wider ecosystem.

Previous Meetings

Tool Demonstrated
OneSF AnalyzerAcumen Resilience Agriculture Fund (ARAF)LendXSConnector Impact Assessment Methodology
Member Lead
CGIARAcumenFinancial AccessCLIC

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