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$200-$40K
VisionFund International provides loans, insurance, financial literacy, business training, market-access support, and mobile-enabled financial services for rural entrepreneurs, smallholder farmers, savings group members, and small businesses. Its financing ranges from $200 to $40K. In Africa, the extracted geographic focus includes Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia, with specific attention to vulnerable communities and South Sudanese refugees.
Accessing Capital
The Finance Accelerating Savings Group Transformation programme (FAST) scales the business potential of World Vision Savings Groups by lending capital.
Accessing Markets
The CrediEnterprise programme enables FAST clients to access tailored credit and support, including market-access.
Insurance Protection
Bespoke insurance products safeguard the investments of clients, their health, family and businesses.
Resilience Building
Recovery Lending programmes and Climate Insurance help small businesses continue to grow during and after crises.
Digitisation
Mobile technology is used to make financial services accessible to the unbanked.
Knowledge Enablement
Financial literacy and business training help turn a loan into a legacy.
Mindset Shift
The Empowered Worldview Programme enables communities to recognise skills within, and opportunities without.
Faith & Development
Part of the THRIVE framework focus areas.
Child Wellbeing
Part of the THRIVE framework focus areas.
Women's Economic Empowerment
Part of the THRIVE framework focus areas.
Climate & Agriculture
Part of the THRIVE framework focus areas.
Disaster & Fragile Context
Part of the THRIVE framework focus areas.
Microfinance subsidiary of World Vision
Reporting support, capacity building, peer learning network
Confirm current funding cycle is open. Review reporting burden. Check geographic restrictions.
Applicants should show a clear fit with VisionFund’s target groups, especially smallholder farmers, rural entrepreneurs, savings group clients, and vulnerable communities. It helps to demonstrate how financing between $200 and $40K would support business growth, resilience, market access, or recovery after crisis.
1999
Active Since
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Deploying
Multiple grantees across Africa