Agritech Can Empower Women to Build Stronger, Inclusive Value Chains

by CIDR Pamiga | Blog article

Though often overlooked by financial service providers, women play an outsize role in making Côte d’Ivoire the world’s largest producer and exporter of cashew nuts. From producing to picking and processing cashews, women are key actors throughout the country’s cashew...

Improving health for cocoa growers and their families

by CIDR Pamiga | Farming

In Ivory Coast, CIDR Pamiga helped set up a health microinsurance scheme for growers and their families, working with major cocoa companies.  CIDR Pamiga’s goal, working in a public-private partnership, was to offer protection to people excluded from...

Orb Energy: funding and supporting an impact company working in solar energy

by CIDR Pamiga | Energy

CIDR Pamiga is keen to use its funds to invest in the share capital of promising companies, helping them scale up and maximize their impact on development in different countries. It works with Orb Energy, an Indian company specializing in solar energy, helping it to...

Flood prevention via integrated water resources management (IWRM)

by CIDR Pamiga | Blog article, Sustainable development

Better regulation of rainwater upstream to put a stop to flooding downstream. This is the challenge the people of Benin are tackling, with assistance from CIDR Pamiga. Simple solutions to limit human and financial losses. From September to November, southern Benin is...

Fluidifying the financing chain for solar energy

by CIDR Pamiga | Energy

In Uganda and Ethiopia, CIDR Pamiga is working alongside actors from the solar energy sector to make impact investments easier and ramp up access to renewable energies. CIDR Pamiga’s programme in Uganda and Ethiopia is designed to help actors in the solar energy...