Assessment of opportunities to digitize payments and improve access to finance in agricultural value chains in Tunisia
Context & objectives:
IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, promotes sustainable private sector growth and is the largest multilateral provider of financing for private enterprise in emerging markets.IFC aims to increase access to financial services in Tunisia in the agricultural sector by providing financial institutions and the whole financial ecosystem with advisory services and facilitating investment services.IFC hired Matine to carry out an opportunity assessment of digitizing payments and improving access to finance in 3 agricultural value chains (dates, olives, tomatoes) in Tunisia. In addition of sizing the opportunity, a key output of the study is to design of concrete use cases that can be implemented in collaboration with market players (farmers, agribusinesses, agritech, financial institutions...).
