Value Chain Financing Next Steps

• Develop Insurance and guarantee products– Lenders– Buyers

• Improve Farmer negotiating capacity• Contracts• Policy advocacy to address policy issues

identified• Continuous capacity building of institutions

Summary Points (1)

• Policy advocacy – address policy bottlenecks, have a mechanism/task group– Credit– Contracts enforcements– Guarantees– Others

• Government (national, local) to address external environment issues– Prices– Security– Others

Summary Points (2)

• Institution capacity/capacity building (of value chain players)– Value chain, value chain financing, others– LGUs, other players

• Client/farmer/target group level capacity building – Entrepreneurship– Technical– Negotiations– Financial Literacy– Others

• Insurance products development– Household/producer– Businesses

Summary Points (3)

• Guarantee System Integration/Rationalization• Continue value chain models development,

evaluation, dissemination, replication/expansion– Best practices– Big brother – small brother – Etc…– Financing models– Value chain managers

Summary Points (4)

• Fast track credit information availability– Credit bureau– Better understanding of value chains and

value chain financing mechanisms

• Mechanisms for value chain stakeholder information sharing, collaboration at local level– Use existing councils