KEY MESSAGES
- Description: Juhudi Kilimo is a social company founded in 2004 which provides 21 000 small Kenyan farmers with loans and technical assistance to access more productive agricultural assets
- Specificity: Accompaniment of loan beneficiaries (training to good practices, to finance,...)
- Impact: Doubling of the productivity
FUNCTIONING
COMPLETE AND ADAPTED CREDIT SOLUTION:
Acquisition of different assets to support agricultural development
> through loans: dairy equipments, poultry, irrigation, horticulture...
Loans adapted to farmers' possibilities
> Between $ 100 and 700 over 12 months on avg.
> Set-up of payment guarantees per group of 14 farmers
> Integration of an insurance
Training of farmers to good agricultural practices
> as well as accounting and finance
SCOPE
KENYA
21 000 farmers reached in 2015
BUDGET
$ 2,3 M in 2014
($ 1,6 M in 2013)
IMPACTS
Agricultural productivity
Doubling of the productivity (4 times more milk for a cow of hybrid vs. local race)
Climate change
Training to sustainable soil and water management and financing of solar lamps
Sustainable dev. goals
+ $ 1 000 of additional annual income by client on average (+100% increase)
NEXT STEPS
Invest in mobile payment to reimburse the loans (cost and fraud reduction)
Finance farmer training provided up to now for free by the NGO Swiss Contact
