Donors & international cooperation

Donors, cooperation agencies, international organisations

Donors, cooperation agencies and international organisations finance and provide technical support to agropastoral development projects.

Definition in the architecture : Financing and technical support for agropastoral development projects

Your activities

What you do

  • Finance agricultural, livestock and rural development programmes and projects
  • Provide technical assistance and strengthen the capacities of value chain actors
  • Structure guarantees and concessional financing for investments
  • Support sector public policy through dialogue and advocacy
  • Back research, data production and vocational training
  • Co-finance rural infrastructure and agricultural developments
Your role in the value chain

A donor or cooperation agency receives priorities from its principal, requests from the State and local authorities, and proposals from operators and engineering firms. It delivers funding, grants, technical assistance and guarantees. Within the Produce – Process – Export chain, it unlocks the investments the market does not finance on its own, secures the upgrading of export value chains to required standards and supports the structuring of producer organisations and processing units. Its appraisal requirements shape how projects are prepared.

Where are you found?

Country offices are based in Yaoundé, with project offices in Douala and in the intervention regions: the Sudano-Sahelian zone of the North and Far North, the highlands of the West and North-West, and the forest zone of the East and South. Some programmes cover the whole CEMAC area.

Your place in the ecosystem

Why your business matters in Cameroon and Central Africa

Cooperation partners play a decisive role in financing agricultural transitions in Cameroon and Central Africa. They support food sovereignty, climate adaptation, youth employment in rural areas and the structuring of export value chains. Their backing often determines the feasibility of rural infrastructure, cold chains and the compliance systems required by regional and European markets. Their demands regarding governance, environmental and social safeguards and measurable results raise the quality of projects and the credibility of national operators. They also bring regional and international experience that helps local actors avoid known pitfalls.

Services delivered
Types of intervention
TI03 · Public finance, guarantees & investmentTI07 · Partnerships & advocacyTI02 · Public policy & subsidiesTI04 · Value-chain support & extensionTI05 · Land planning & infrastructureTI06 · Research, data & training
What your directory profile should declare

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Priority areas and value chains of interventionInstruments used: grants, concessional loans, guarantees, technical assistanceRegions and countries covered by ongoing programmesAccess modalities and eligibility criteria for project developersEnvironmental, social and governance safeguard requirements
Networking challenges and opportunities
  • Identify bankable projects and credible developers in priority value chains
  • Rely on sound technical and financial studies to appraise funding requests
  • Coordinate interventions with the State, local authorities and other partners
  • Ensure the sustainability of financed projects once external funding ends
  • Support value chain compliance with regional and international standards
Why be listed

What the directory brings to your organisation

Visibility across the value chain

Being listed as an institutional partner makes your programmes, calls for proposals and eligibility criteria visible to actors along the whole value chain.

Access to partnership opportunities

Engaging with XP-NOVA gives you access to an engineering consultancy able to prepare, structure and monitor projects that meet your requirements.

Integration into the regional ecosystem

The AGROVITA ecosystem offers you a coherent entry point into the value chains of Cameroon and CEMAC, with identified and qualified partners.

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Your listing in three steps

The directory is not a mere listing: each profile is positioned within the architecture (sub-domain, actor, value chain), checked by XP-NOVA, then published. You keep control of your profile after publication.

  1. The form

    You enter your organisation, your position in the architecture — pre-filled from this page —, your value chains, your area of operation and your contact details. Your profile is created as pending and you receive your access.

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  2. Verification by XP-NOVA

    The XP-NOVA team reviews your profile: consistency of the position in the architecture, reality of the declared activity, completeness of the information. If there is a reservation, the reason is sent to you and you can complete.

  3. Validation and publication

    Once validated, your profile is published in the directory available to members, under your actor code. You update it from your area: contact details, logo, capacities, description.

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