SPIS - Toolbox - Finance - Further Reading, Links and Tools

Introduction

The Toolbox on Solar Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) is designed to enable advisors, service providers and practitioners in the field of solar irrigation to provide broad hands-on guidance to end-users, policy-makers and financiers. Risks related to system efficiency, financial viability and the unsustainable use of water resources can thus be minimized. The Toolbox comprises informative modules supplemented with user-friendly software tools (calculations sheets, checklists, guidelines). read more

Modules and tools touch upon:

• assessing the water requirements,
• comparing the financial viability,
• determining farm profitability and payback of investment in SPIS,
• sustainably design and maintain a SPIS,
• highlight critical workmanship quality aspects,
• and many more.

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Further Reading, Links and Tools

Links

• C-GAP on "Rural and Agricultural Finance" at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org (08/13/2015)
• "Agricultural Finance Support Facility" (AgriFin)/ World Bank at: https://www.agrifinfacility.org/ (08/13/2015)
• "Agricultural and Rural Finance" Making Finance Work for Africa/MicroSave at: http://www.mfw4a.org (08/13/2015)

Publications/Papers

• "Guarantee Funds: A Response to Agricultural Credit Risk – The Latin American Guarantee Fund FOGAL" by SOS Faim Belgium (2015) at: http://bit.ly/2qWQ1Af (08/13/2015)
• "Innovative Agricultural SME Finance Models" (2012) by IFC/GPFI at: http://bit.ly/2qkfMM7 (08/13/2015)
• "Scaling Up Access to Finance for Agricultural SMEs - Policy Review and Recommendations" (2011) by IFC/GPFI at:

http://bit.ly/2qnjP6u (08/13/2015)

• "Resource Book on Designing and Delivering Agriculture Financing Products-The Phillipines" by: Piyush Kumar Prasoon;

Abhay Pareek, Anant Jayant Natu; Jesila Ledesma; Neeloy Deep Barman (2014) at:http://www.microsave.net (08/13/2015)

• "Managing Risk in Financing Agriculture – Notes - Expert Meeting". Convened and co-sponsored by AFRACA, FAO, the Land Bank of South Africa/World Bank (2009) at: http://bit.ly/2qnQ1GG (08/13/2015)
• “Developing Rural Finance through Public-Private Sector Cooperation” by SOS Faim Belgium in Zoom Microfinance (2013) at: http://bit.ly/2qk3xPL (13/8/2015)
• "Credit Risk Models for Managing Bank‘s Agricultural Loan Portfolio", by Arindam Bandyopadhyay/National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, India (2007) at: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de (08/13/2015)
• "Credit Risk Models for Agriculture Loan Portfolios" AgriFin/Worldbank (2007) at: https://www.agrifinfacility.org/resource/credit-risk-models-managing-bank’s-agricultural-lo- an-portfolio (08/13/2015)
• "Agricultural Finance – Trends, Issues and Challenges" (2011) GIZ at: http://www.ruralfinance.org/fileadmin/templates/rflc/documents/06giz2011-0460en-agricultural-finance. pdf (08/13/2015)

Tools

There are no SPIS tools developed specifically for this Module, however the following tools are relevant:

• PROMOTE 01-SPIS Rapid Assessment: includes a (financial) market analysis for financing of SPIS components
• DESIGN 06- Farm Analysis Tool: to determine the profitability of the farm enterprise
• DESIGN 07- Simplified Financial Viability Tool: to calculate the financial viability of a SPIS and compare that to other alternative pumping systems (diesel and grid power)