Increasing Incentives and Reducing Risks:
How Value Chain Finance Can Increase Industry Competitiveness?
www.microlinks.org/sc/valuechainfinance

March 24-26,  2009
Join us for this interactive dialogue on microLINKS and share your experiences, learn from others, and connect with other professionals in the field.

Introduction to this discussion:  Value chain finance refers to financial products and services that flow to or through any point in a value chain in order to increase returns on investment and growth and competitiveness of that value chain. Whereas value chain finance transactions are not new (production finance could be considered “value chain finance”) the emphasis on improving finance at one point in the value chain to increase the competitiveness of the entire value chain is. With value chain finance, the risks and returns of the finance provider are considered along with the risks and returns to value chain actors.  

• Greater consensus on value chain finance’s definition; current best practice programs; and on-going challenges. And,
• A set of recommendations for practical value chain finance tools that can lead to improved best practice implementation. 

• Day One (March 24^th) –State of Value Chain Finance and Field-Based Challenges: The first day of the discussion focused on (1) the definition and use of value chain finance, (2) the current state of the practice, and (3) field-based challenges to best practice implementation. Facilitator: Janice K. Stallard, Senior Technical Director, ACDI/VOCA.
• Day Two (March 25^th)- Best Practices for Increasing Incentives and Reducing Risks: On the second day, winners of the AMAP “Innovations in Financing Value Chains” award in February 2009, discussed their work and solicit suggestions from the audience regarding concrete examples of how their projects have increased incentives and reduced risks for better value chain finance interventions. Facilitators: Megan Falvey, Director of Programs, Crimson Capital Corporation; Luis Jimenez, WOCCU/Peru.
• Day Three (March 26^th) – Tools to Deliver Successful Value Chain Finance Products -  The last day focused on successful methodologies and possible tools for advancing best practices in value chain finance. Participants are invited to contribute towards a set of recommendations for value chain finance tools that can lead to improved best practice implementation. Facilitator: Anita Campion.

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Documents

Synthesis Document    March 2009 Speaker's Corner Summary Report.pdf     Publication Date   06/2009      
Value Chain Finance Speaker's Corner Compilation Document    SC_Value_Chain_Finance.pdf     Publication Date   05/2009      
Value Chain Finance Methodology PowerPoint Presentation    USAID WOCCU VCfinance award Presentation.pdf              
Finance in the Value Chain Framework Briefing Paper    Value Chain Finance Briefing Paper.pdf     Publication Date   02/2009      
Introducing Purchase Order Financing PowerPoint Presentation    Value Chain Financing in Rural Bolivia_Introducing Purchase Order Financing_RCA.pdf              
Value Chain Finance Methodology: An interview with Luis Jimenez Galarza        Publication Date   02/2009      
Introducing Purchase Order Financing in Bolivia: An interview with Ramiro Ortega Landa        Publication Date   02/2009      

Discussions

Value Chain Finance ID: 35838

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CLOSING: DAY FOUR GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.  Thank you for a wonderful three days of discussion on value chain finance.  I learned a lot from my colleagues and want to thank you all for sharing your on-going ...	316		2
DAY THREE: INTRODUCTION OF FACILITATOR GOOD MORNING EVERYONEWelcome to our third and final day of our value chain finance discussion. Thank you for everyone's participation so far.  It has been a tremendous debate and sharing of ideas ...	340		14
RE: SUMMARY OF DAY THREE: TOOLS & RESOURCES FOR VALUE CHAIN FINANCE To summarize, today we talked about tools and resources that are available or needed to facilitate value chain finance and development. There were some new tools mentioned: . Drafts from a ...	303		1
DAY 2: Summary of morning session (WOCCU) Day 2: Summary of morning session Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences and insights on value chain finance during the morning session on day 2. Luis Jimenez, the WOCCU ...	313		1
Re: DAY THREE: INTRODUCTION OF FACILITATOR Hi Ruth,MEDA has given permission for them to be linked, uploaded and distributed, so please do go ahead.If you would like a direct confirmation, please contact Jerry Quigley jquigley@meda.orgBest ...	317		1
Re: DAY THREE: INTRODUCTION OF FACILITATOR Hi Ruth,They have not yet been translated into Spanish, but MEDA was in dialogue with an organization regard to use and possible translation - I can check into that for you and let you know.Best ...	299		1
Intro from Crimson Capital/Capacity Building Con't Thanks very much Luis and WOCU team! I work for Crimson Capital and have come into this discussion based on Crimson's work on the ARCo project in Bolivia. I think this morning's discussion ...	399		6
First Question: How can we promote the sustainability? The topic of sustainability came up in discussion a few times yesterday. What has been your experience? How can practitioners and donors promote sustainability and increase the likelihood that ...	400		9
closing Hello all and thank you very much for your sharing your experiences and comments on VCF today. I think today’s questions and discussion all stem from following dilemma: the more value cha ...	329		1
project sustainability, subsidies & project design I’d like to return to some key issues discussed over the past 2 days: Basically all of our VCF projects offer some form of a subsidy: some projects offer training to FI staff to better understa ...	300		2
Building the “human capacity” to handle value chain finance Thanks a lot for your contribution to the first question. Now, I would like to bring up an interesting topic; the human resources.Just as lending is not a core function of value chain actors (and can ...	345		6
Increasing Incentives and Reducing Risks Thank you for everyone’s excellent discussion on the definition of value chain finance.  I would like to move the discussion along and begin a dialogue on how to facilitate interventions that are ...	361		10
WOCCU Peru Project I would like to start speaking about the USAID-WOCCU-FENACREP Project.	351		3
DAY TWO: OPENING REMARKS GOOD MORNING Welcome to our second day of exciting discussions on value chain finance.  Today, we have Luis Jimenez from WOCCU/Peru and Megan Falvey from Crimson Capital Corporation as ...	329		2
Day One: Value Chain Finance Summary There has been a lively discussion on the definition and use of value chain finance today.  I want to thank everyone for their time and participation.  There will be a summary of the entire ...	385		1
Defining Value Chain Finance      This morning, I would like to get our discussion going with a quick conversation on the definition and use of value chain finance. The AMAP value chain finance briefing ...	408		13
Welcoming Remarks Hello to my fellow practitioners!  It’s great to have the opportunity to get together for three days and talk about value chain financing.   I have been working on a range of value ...	373		1
Welcome to this discussion! Welcome to this discussion on value chain finance, on March 24-26. This is the place where the various messages in the discussion will be posted. To participate and receive messages over e-mail, ...	338		1
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