Impact
Auxfin's Timeline
2022
- NutritionCoach scaled to 40,000 households
- FinanceCoach developed, piloted and ready for scaling
- Number of field activators passed the 800 mark
- Sales of fertilisers through UMVA platform increased to 7.6 Billion BIF (3.8 million EUR)
- VSLA App launched in Burundi and Uganda, in collaboration with CARE
- Director AUXFIN Burundi speaks at the conference “Space for Food Security: on the right track”
- Partnership agreements signed with 2 commercial banks in Uganda
- AUXFIN and Tree Aid win the Challenge Fund for Youth Employment in Burkina Faso
2021
- AgriCoach used by > 400,000 households
- Collaboration started with CABI Plantwise, adding pest and disease information to the AgriCoach
- Successful completion of GAP4ALL project with Netherlands Space Office
- HealthCoach reaches > 100,000 households
- AUXFIN established in Uganda
- Fair Agro Food wins the Challenge Fund for Youth Employment to start digitizing the gum value chain in Sudan with AUXFIN and ECOSIA
- Director AUXFIN Burundi pitches at the Food Systems Summit Dialogues
- NutritionCoach launched and piloted
- Successful pilot of seed sales on UMVA platform with 3,446 kg of seeds sold
- Scoping mission Burkina Faso
- UMVA Remittances celebrates 10th anniversary
2020
- Burundi 1,4 million families registered
- Roll out plan to double from 4,000 to 8,000 groups
- TMEA grant a project for safe trade of seed related to COVID-19
- Collaboration with ICCO of FinanceCoach started
- Nicash founded, with the intention to connect the groups to the rural financial services
- RABO ACORN Carbon Credits pilot, first Carbon Credit project in AUXFIN
- UNICEF NutritionCoach project started
- WFP local sourcing further developed
- Scoping mission Uganda
- New UMVA tablet designed and manufactured
- AgriCoach used by 20,000 households with proven positive impact
- COVID-19 version of HealthCoach made available
- Offline app technology for all our apps introduced for low/no connectivity areas
- Full Value Chain management solution implemented, including input distribution, collection, validation and direct payment
2019
- AgriCoach V1a successfully launched in Burundi on the UMVA tablet.
- 3.300 farmers/households are using the weatherforecast to better plan their agricultural activities
- Smart farming geodata platform implemented into the UMVA system
- REGISTRATION APP launched for on line and off line use
- MAPPING APP launched for on line mapping
- GIZ awards grant to AUXFIN and partners for IDDEA project in UGANDA
- UMVA PAYMENT APP and POS APP used for rainmetering in Burundi
- JEANNE tool for communication and chatbot used for M&E
- Scoping mission Sudan
- start potato supply chain Kenya
- Waterwatch included
2018
- NSO awards grant to AUXFIN and partners for GAP4A project in Burundi
- UMVA and PosteCash Senegal announce interoperability
- AUXFIN and UMVA present at IFAD marketplace in UN headquarters in New York.
- Launch of UMVA in Mali with support from Mastercard Foundation's Fund for Rural Prosperity
- Connecting UMVA solutions with GEO DATA
- UMVA PAYMENT APP and POS APP
- JEANNE tool for communication and chatbot, with incident reporting
2017
- AFDB commissioned market study for the introduction of UMVA in Mali, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso
- Introduction of UMVA in Italy with support from IOM
- Scoping mission in Lebanon to enable Cash Assistance with UMVA
- Burundi growing to 170.000 families (1 million people)
- POSTE-CASH with UMVA link with 3000 access points in Senegal
- UMVA COOP fase 1 implemented
- GEO developed
2016
- SALPOST introduces POSTUMVA in Sierra Leone on 16th of June, the international day of family remittances
- UMVA projects in Burundi reach 30.000 families
- CAP solution introduced, with 6 pillars
- UMVA AGENT introduced
2015
- AfDB provides a grant to our partner in Senegal to leverage the UMVA service towards financial inclusion
- Study to use UMVA in refugee camps in Kurdistan
- Introduction of community activation in Burundi
2014
- Rabobank funds our partner in Senegal to introduce the UMVA service across its branch network
- Introduction of UMVA in Belgium and the Netherlands
- Creation of AUXFIN Burundi
- First implementation for payment process on the PSEB fertilizer project
2013
- Introduction of UMVA in France
- Development of UMVA LOAN solution
- school registration system installed in Nepal
2012
- Introduction of UMVA in Spain
- UMVA Bank developed with focus on SACCO’s
2011
- Birth of AUXFIN International to boost the implementation of the UMVA solutions
- Launch of UMVA pilot in Senegal with support from IFAD
- UMVA Client developed with focus on international transfers