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Quad Tee Corporation

Workshops and Capacity Building

Training that builds capacity

Tailored workshops, from a single day to a full week

Quad Tee delivers transformative workshop training, a growing area of our expertise. Whether a session runs for one day or an entire week, we tailor it to your goals.

Workshops are dynamic platforms for learning and engagement, for your team and for the wider ecosystem.

Participants signing in at the PADEO access to finance validation workshop facilitated by Quad Tee

PADEO Access to Finance Validation Workshop

Participants contributed insights on proposed intervention areas, learnings from presentations and discussions, breakout sessions and possibilities for cooperation within the PADEO Access to Finance programme.

Participation was diverse, including commercial banks, impact funds, insurance providers and fintechs. Discussions highlighted the need for innovation, data infrastructure and collaborative solutions to improve access to finance for smallholder farmers.

Related work: systems thinking for PADEO
Workshop venue set up for the Platform Economy training for fintech companies in Kampala

Platform Economy Workshop (Cohort 2)

Quad Tee led the second Platform Economy workshop in Kampala, a collaboration with FSD Uganda and FITSPA. Over two days, local fintech companies explored the platform economy, from business models and technology to fundraising.

Engagement was high, with lively debate on topics such as AI.

Read: Platform Economy, the future?

Facilitation of Various Workshops

South Sudan Visit for the Feasibility Study of IBLI

Fisheries Systems

System Analysis of the Horticulture Business in Uganda

Platform Economy Master Class

Refugee Youth Financing

Digital Platform Economy in Western Uganda

OUR PRIORITY SECTORS

Agriculture and SME Finance

Empowering Smallholder Farmers and Agriculture SMEs: A substantial portion of sub-Saharan Africa’s workforce is employed in agriculture, predominantly in smallholder farming. Addressing their financial challenges, we’ve supported development partners in designing and implementing innovative solutions. Advising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, our approach has been multifaceted, involving systems analysis and mapping, financial market assessments, stakeholder engagement, and designing strategic interventions. The interventions incorporated climate finance, livestock finance, digital adoption and risk-sharing mechanisms to enable access to finance and lower the cost of lending for farmers through a value chain approach supported by market linkages to agriculture SMEs.

Climate Finance and Climate Risk Mitigation

Through strategic interventions, we have explored climate risk mitigation solutions, including Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in South Sudan, aimed at helping pastoralist communities safeguard their livestock against drought-related losses. Our research examined the feasibility of IBLI by assessing local institutional capacity and community willingness to adopt the model, demonstrating its potential to enhance food security and sustain livelihoods. Additionally, we have been instrumental in fostering private sector involvement in climate-sensitive industries such as fisheries in Lake Turkana. By conducting systems analysis and identifying key leverage points, we have delivered valuable insights to address both economic and environmental challenges in these regions. Our approach combines climate finance, digital innovation, and market-driven strategies to enhance access to finance, reduce climate vulnerabilities, and foster long-term economic resilience.

Transforming Access to Finance through Digital Solutions

The digital finance landscape is evolving rapidly, reshaping the economic participation of smallholders, small and medium businesses, youth, and women. Our involvement in projects such as Mercy Corps AgriFin, FSD Uganda’s Platform Economy, and Chomoka with CARE International reflects our commitment to developing and implementing cutting-edge digital finance solutions. As part of our efforts to revamp access to finance, we have engaged various financial sector actors, including development partners, impact investors, commercial banks, and fintechs. Through this collaboration, we have identified a range of financing facilities and, with the help of technology, launched the Sustainable Business for Uganda (SB4U) Platform’s Access to Finance Portal, funded by the European Union. This initiative aims to tackle information asymmetry, a significant barrier hindering SMEs’ access to finance, by highlighting the diverse funding sources available and guiding SMEs on how to approach different funders.

Women and Youth Finance: Unlocking Potential

With a large youth demographic facing high unemployment rates, we’ve focused on unlocking their economic potential. Through technical assistance to Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works program, we have been instrumental in providing youth with access to credit and financial literacy, thereby fostering entrepreneurial growth, economic participation and job creation. We did this by re-designing the program’s delivery processes, developing new products for SMEs and developing the credit guarantee operating model.

Expanding Horizons

Looking ahead our goal is to create impactful actionable solutions that drive meaningful change in the marketplace that address real challenges across various sectors, including climate finance, digital innovation, financial inclusion and enterprise growth

Risk Sharing Funds and Credit Risk Guarantees

Access to finance often stalls because lenders see smallholders, young entrepreneurs and SMEs as too risky to serve. We help development partners and financial institutions design risk-sharing mechanisms that shift part of that risk away from lenders, including risk sharing funds and credit guarantee facilities. Our work covers the design of the operating model, eligibility and pricing, and the roles of partner banks and other financial institutions. For the Mastercard Foundation’s Young Africa Works program, we developed the credit guarantee operating model. In agriculture, we built risk-sharing mechanisms into interventions advised to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, helping lower the cost of lending to farmers.

Systems Thinking and Analysis

We use systems thinking to understand why markets and sectors do not work for the people who depend on them. Through systems analysis and mapping, we identify the actors, incentives, constraints and relationships that shape a sector, and the leverage points where a targeted intervention can create lasting change. We have applied this approach to agriculture finance for PADEO, to the horticulture sector in Uganda, and to fisheries around Lake Turkana. The result is a shared picture of the system that stakeholders can act on, and interventions built on evidence rather than assumptions.

Market Systems Development

We take a market systems approach to inclusive finance: we look beyond individual beneficiaries to the wider market they operate in. That means working on value chains, market linkages between smallholders and agriculture SMEs, and the financial services, data infrastructure and support functions around them. We engage the private sector, financial institutions, fintechs, impact investors and development partners so that solutions are commercially viable and can continue beyond project funding. Our aim is to strengthen how the market itself works, so that change lasts.

Feasibility Studies

Before a new financial product or model is scaled, we test whether it can work. Our feasibility studies assess market demand, institutional capacity, community willingness to adopt, regulatory and operating conditions, and likely impact. Our study of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in South Sudan is an example: it assessed local institutional capacity and community willingness to adopt the model, and showed its potential to strengthen food security and livelihoods among pastoralist communities.

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We design and facilitate training on access to finance, digital finance and the platform economy for financial institutions and development partners.

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