Investment Readiness and Impact Delivery Support for Climate-Smart Cocoa Sourcing
I4DI is supporting Sucden to access concessional finance through AfDB’s ACFM/TAF facility, providing targeted advisory on proposal structuring, technical alignment, and partner coordination. The work forms part of I4DI’s broader approach to bridging DFIs and borrowers through impact infrastructure.
Income Impact Assessments for Clean Energy and Agri-MSMEs
I4DI is conducting rapid impact assessments for Shell Foundation to determine how clean energy and cold chain innovations are affecting net incomes for smallholder farmers and microentrepreneurs in India and Nigeria. By blending rigorous data methods with participatory insights, this work sheds light on what meaningful income uplift looks like, and what it takes to achieve it, across diverse and underserved communities.
Empowering Smallholder Farmers in India – Shubh Samriddhi Project in India
I4DI is thrilled to announce our new collaborative venture with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as an expansion of our partnership with Mars Inc. on the Farmer Income Lab. This project will help impoverished smallholder households reach a livable income through alignment between government priorities and private-sector interests to serve smallholder farmers and agribusiness SMEs in a gender equitable way.
Through this initiative, I4DI will provide focused MLE support to the Shubh Mint project in Uttar Pradesh, India. This initiative is a pivotal step towards transforming procurement practices and integrating smallholder farmers into inclusive and economically viable supply chains, marking a significant leap towards equity for the region’s agricultural community.
I4DI & Livelihoods Venture: A New Era in Impact Assessment & Operational Excellence
Livelihoods Venture (LV), committed to amplifying its impact through its Funds, projects, and investments, recognizes the transformative potential of strategic alignment. They have thus teamed up with I4DI to enhance LV’s impact pathways and revamp their MEL system. I4DI has already commenced with an in-depth analysis of LV’s existing MEL systems. Through a series of […]
Global Development Alliance to Improve Farmer Livelihoods and Support a Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Cocoa Industry in Indonesia
Through the Advancing Cocoa Agroforestry towards Income, Value, and Environmental Sustainability (ACTIVE) partnership, USAID, Mars, Inc., and I4DI are using their collective resources to address key cocoa supply and deforestation challenges that are negatively affecting farmers in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Final Evaluation of the USDA FFPr Exporting Quality (EQ) Project – USDA
I4DI is conducting a final evaluation of the USDA FFPR Exporta Calidad/Exporting Quality Project in the DR, implemented by IESC, that has worked since 2015 to improve agricultural productivity and trade in avocados, pineapple, cocoa, Asian vegetables, and greenhouse vegetable value chains. Through targeted capacity building on product quality and production efficiency, IESC aims to […]
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Partner for Cocoa Project – L3F
I4DI is engaging with L3F to implement and test the effectiveness of bundles of interventions designed to support cocoa smallholders in Ghana. The objective is to build productive and profitable family farming enterprises that secure a decent standard of living and make cocoa farming attractive to the next generation of farmers through the testing of different development models and approaches.
Evaluation of the USDA FFPr Trade Safe (Trasa) – USDA
I4DI conducted baseline, midline, and endline studies, and provided IESC and USDA the performance monitoring data required to annually track actual results against planned targets, validate and revisit assumptions that were made in the project design. I4DI also monitored the assumptions during the project implementation, and identify potential threats to project success. The project included […]