Advans Myanmar is a microfinance institution founded by Advans Group in 2015 with the mission to provide easily accessible financial services to underserved clients in Myanmar. The organization is the newest affiliate of the broader Advans Group, a global microfinance network currently operating in nine countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Apollo Agriculture is an agricultural fintech company based in Kenya that helps small-scale farmers improve their incomes through a package of services, including high quality inputs, technical assistance, agronomic advice, insurance and financing.

Arnur Credit mainly serves farmers and household plot owners and entrepreneurs in southern Kazakhstan. The majority of its borrowers live in rural areas and make a living from agriculture. The institution has flexible products tailored to the needs of those populations and a wide network of offices to cover far away villages where employment opportunities are limited. MCE was one of the first MIVs to lend to the institution in 2010.

Baobab Nigeria (formerly Microcred Nigeria) is a subsidiary of the Baobab Group, a leading financial inclusion network of microfinance institutions that provide a wide range of digital and mobile solutions to over half a million individuals and small enterprises across Africa and China.

Burlap & Barrel is a single origin spice company based in the US, sourcing a variety of spices across developing and developed markets around the world. The organization started by selling primarily to wholesale customers, and has increasingly focused on retail sales through its own ecommerce website.

Burlap & Barrel is focused on building long-term, mutually beneficial trade relationships with its partner farmers. Transparency and traceability are key aspects of Burlap’s approach, which seeks to bring farmers into greater positions of power within a value chain that was designed to exploit them.

Elet Capital, an MFI based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, focuses on serving low-income rural entrepreneurs with formal financial services that would otherwise be unavailable.

Financiación Amiga S.A.S. (Finamiga) is a small microfinance institution based in Cali, Colombia, which serves a niche market through motorcycle financing for productive use — specifically targeting micro-entrepreneurs and farmers that need vehicles to transport their goods.

Banco para la Asistencia Comunitaria FINCA S.A. (“Finca Ecuador”) was established in 1993 by Finca International in an effort to provide financial services to the most impoverished and underserved segments of Ecuador through Finca’s signature product, village banking.

FINCA Kosovo seeks to be the leading provider of microfinance services throughout Kosovo with a strong focus on low-income clients and micro-entrepreneurs. FINCA Kosovo is a part of the FINCA International microfinance network.

FINCA Zambia is a deposit-taking microfinance institution with the mission to support micro and small enterprises across the country through access to financial services that help clients to build businesses, acquire assets, and improve their living conditions.

Finance for Development LLC (FinDev) is a non-bank financial institution that was started in 1997 by Oxfam Great Britain with a commitment to serving underserved populations with a range of financial products.

Georgian Credit is an microfinance organization (MFO) founded by Georgian individuals in 2006 with the mission to provide financial services to small and medium-sized businesses, primarily in the agricultural sector, in rural areas of Georgia.

IDEPRO is a Bolivian microfinance institution with a strong position in the most remote regions of the country. The organization contributes to the financial inclusion and development of female and male entrepreneurs in microenterprises often overlooked by traditional banks.

IMON International was one of MCE’s first loan recipients in 2006, and maintains its strong commitment to alleviating poverty by serving the country’s most vulnerable populations through a variety of financial products and services, including traditional loans, education and green loans, savings accounts, remittance transfers, and mobile banking.

Mali Shi buys and processes shea kernels to export shea butter to international markets. Shea is an important source of income for rural communities in Mali with thousands of women involved in the collection and processing of the fruit; there is therefore significant potential for job creation and higher incomes. Mali Shi’s objective is to source 100% of the shea kernel directly from cooperatives and producer associations, which consist almost exclusively of female producers.

Microcredit Foundation Mikra (“Mikra”) is an MFI with a mission to responsibly provide the poorest but economically active population, mostly women, with access to high-quality and affordable financial, educational, and related services needed to reduce poverty, encourage self-employment, and develop micro-entrepreneurship.

Moringa Connect is a moringa processing and marketing business that operates in Ghana and the United States, which sources moringa seeds and leaves from thousands of Ghanaian smallholder farmers, processes the products locally into moringa oil and powder, then exports them or sells them in the Ghanaian market.

Naasakle International LLC (Naasakle) is a family-owned, vertically integrated shea processing and marketing business founded in 2000 that operates in Ghana and the United States, utilizing a direct “picker to consumer” model to connect Ghanaian women shea pickers with global consumer markets.

Natural Extracts Industries Ltd. (NEI) is a for-profit social enterprise based in Moshi in northern Tanzania that works to accelerate the economic growth of smallholder farmers by adding value to their crops through sustainable agricultural practices and providing access to global markets.

Optima Servicios Financieros (“Optima”) is a non-bank financial institution (NBFI) in El Salvador with a focus on micro-loans below US$15,000, factoring, and larger business loans, primarily in urban and peri-urban areas of the country.

The Organic Village is a Dutch-based entity that provides support to The Organic Valley, a Nepalese SME engaged in the cultivation, sourcing, transformation and exportation of organic herbs and spices. The Organic Valley was established in 2003 by a Nepalese entrepreneur and former UNDP officer who saw an opportunity to implement market-based approaches to empower rural communities in Nepal.

Perennial Foods Group (PFG) is a Mauritius-based holding company with two subsidiaries, Green Way Farms in Ethiopia and Perennial Foods UK. The goal of the group is to build up competitiveness at the Ethiopian smallholder level by training, sourcing, processing and exporting a range of fresh and dried agro-ecological products to countries in the EU, UK and Middle East. All of PFG products are certified organic or in transition.

Prograin Organic is a for-profit social enterprise based in Chisinau, Moldova, which works with smallholder farmers to produce and source organic grains and export them to clients in the organic food and organic feeding sectors in the European Union. Prograin Organic is the first company in Moldova to promote organic agricultural products.

Proximity Finance (Proximity) is the microfinance company owned by Proximity Designs, a social enterprise that designs products and services to improve the livelihoods of underserved rural families in Myanmar. Proximity is the only fully integrated player for agricultural microfinance in Myanmar, serving smallholder farmers with access to finance, technology, and knowledge.

Sierra Agra is a for-profit social business in Sierra Leone that works to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and strengthen the mango value chain by purchasing from smallholder farmers and processing mangoes into a commercial product that can be sold locally and internationally.

Sunfunder is a solar financing business that unlocks capital for solar energy in emerging markets and improves the lives of those living without reliable access to electricity.

Tolaro Global is a cashew nut processing business based in Parakou, a small town in Northern Benin. Founded in 2010, Tolaro sources raw cashew nuts directly from local farmers and transforms them for export.

Victory Farms Limited is a tilapia fish farm based in Homa Bay, Kenya. The business, which began operations in 2016, aims to become the country’s leading sustainable fishery through its operations on Lake Victoria.

Villa Andina is a Peruvian social enterprise that works with rural communities in different regions of Peru to source native organic products directly from smallholder farmers and provide technical assistance to improve their yields and farming incomes.