Access to financing and capacity building for smallholder farmers and climate-vulnerable communities across Kenya remains a top priority for Moto Hope Capital in our climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. With renewed focus on restorative value chains that align environmental sustainability with economic growth, we are ensuring sustainability, resilience, inclusivity, and prosperity, one smallholder farmer at a time.
To this end, represented by our Senior Credit Manager, Mr. Peter Njoroge, we were honored to attend the Kenya Matchmaking and Blended Finance Event on 29–30 May 2025 at the E4Impact Entrepreneurship Center, Kenya. This timely event was organized under the AFR100 (African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative).
The event, which focused on unlocking access to funding and technical assistance for forest and smallholder farm producers and enterprises, with a special emphasis on restoration-based, value-added innovation in the Kerio Valley Landscape, was a welcome value add to us.
Day 1’s Matchmaking saw entrepreneurs working in forest restoration and climate solutions pitching their ventures to potential investors in dedicated deal rooms.
While Day 2, themed Blended Finance, had investors and financiers discussing blended finance models and enabling policies to support landscape restoration and climate resilience efforts.
Moto Hope Capital participated in the deal room sessions for three growth-stage enterprises, provided feedback in the investor plenaries, and contributed to the policy formulation roundtable discussions.