CGAP and IDH Launch Call for Expressions of Interest: Accelerating Business to Empower Rural Women in Agriculture (ABERA)

CGAP and IDH, the sustainable trade initiative, launched a call for expressions of interest on 11 March 2025 for financial and agricultural service providers looking to boost business performance while delivering services that improve rural women’s climate resilience. The initiative is seeking providers who see inclusive finance as key to commercial viability and have practical ideas on how to use financial services to increase the climate resilience of smallholder women farmers.

Selected providers will be invited to join ABERA, Accelerating Business to Empower Rural women in Agriculture, which is a collaboration between CGAP and IDH. ABERA is a cohort of financial and agricultural service providers that aims to improve the climate resilience of providers and the rural women they serve through innovations in inclusive finance in a way that makes business sense.