The SANASA Entrepreneur Financial Expertise Center (SEFEC) is the central incubator of the SANASA network for value chain development and business incubation. It aims at promoting the sustainable growth and development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) through the provision of customized financial and nonfinancial products and services, with a focus on women entrepreneurs, youth and small farmers in rural areas.
Currently SEFEC is working with 200 cooperative societies, geared to improve the income of smallholder farmers by incubating businesses that are market aligned. The business incubation team of SEFEC and the financial advisory team of SEVA consultancies programme of SANASA International work in unison to support building local economies in a sustainable framework.
SEFEC started in 2017 under a 5-year project implemented by DID, an international development consultancy firm affiliated to the Desjardins Co-operative Financial Group in Canada. The initiative was funded with the assistance of the Canadian Government( Global Affairs of Canada). Although the project ended in 2021, SANASA International continues the best practices and the pilot work that began with SEFEC, while retaining a core team affiliated with SEFEC as a consultancy pool.
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This project helps stabilize and strengthen farm organizations through institutional capacity building and policy advocacy. The overall goal is to contribute to an enabling environment for rural poverty reduction through instrumental support to rural smallholders and their organizations at national, sub-regional, and regional levels in Asia and the Pacific. The project’s specific objective is to ensure that farmer organizations are professionally capacitated to provide sustainable demand-driven (business and technical) services to their members and engage in effective policy dialogue towards improved livelihoods and incomes of smallholder farmers/ producers in Asia and the Pacific. In Sri Lanka, as the National Implementing Agency of APFP, SANASA International assists the Eco Ape Cooperative Network and 200 cooperative societies to provide better service to smallholder farmers to build sustainable businesses. The project is currently working with farmers attached to 8 value chains.
A consultation meeting was organized by SANASA International to validate the findings of the two research studies undertaken by SANASA Campus on the policy environment…
A meeting was organized by SEFEC to initiate a dialogue and potential partnership with service providers and industry leaders in the Kithul Industry. The meeting…
On the 18th of October, a training was organized for the leaders of farmers organizations and cooperatives who are attached to the 8 collective businesses,…
The opening ceremony of the newly constructed Bibila Ambagolla Pepper Processing Center was held on February 7th. Officials representing Sanasa International, MONLAR, the Department of Export Agriculture, the Cooperative Department, and eco APE Cooperative network participated in this event.
