Smallholder Farmer Resilience through Innovative Financing Project

About this project

This project aims to build on the existing work by UNDP in the agriculture sector and leverage the findingsfrom UNDP Sri Lanka SDG Investor Map, to implement an innovative agro-pastoral farming model, linkedto agriculture focused, inclusive financing products for 1000 women beneficiaries in the Northern SriLankan districts of Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi. The project will improve the productive capacity of womensmallholder farmers, improve access to finance and enhance community resilience and theresponsiveness of food systems. The program also aims to create pathways to sustain the initiativebeyond the project by building investor confidence through the creation of investible pipelines to mobilizeprivate capital for the development of food systems.

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty
• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality

Published by

United Nations Development Programme · Multilateral

Countries

Sri Lanka

Sectors

Agricultural developmentAgricultural land resourcesAgricultural alternative development

Funded by

Visa Inc., Lacoste, CHRYSALIS, CITI FOUNDATION, GREEN CLIMATE FUND, ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, PRIVATE SECTOR

Implemented by

UNDP

Accountable

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Published by United Nations Development Programme to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41114-PROJECT-01001340.

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