Agora Partnerships
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Status update — December 16, 2024
Kiva and Agora Partnerships have agreed to end their partnership after nearly 10 years and more than $400,000 in loans raised to Social Enterprises. This partner has repaid its outstanding balance to Kiva in full, and these funds have been distributed to lenders. We thank Agora Partnerships for the years of collaboration and wish them success in their future endeavors.
Partner Description:
Agora Partnerships is a nonprofit organization that works with early-stage social businesses across Latin America that are too large to be considered microenterprises, but too small for investments from traditional financing institutions. These for-profit businesses are finding innovative ways to solve social and environmental challenges. They lack access to the knowledge, networks, and capital they need to grow their businesses and their impact.
Agora supports these businesses through the Agora Accelerator, an 8 month program in which selected businesses receive customized consulting services focused on driving investment into the company, access to a global community of investors, mentors, and peers, and opportunities to network with and pitch to investors. Agora has facilitated more than 14.5 million in financing to dozens of businesses that have participated in their Accelerator program.
A unique lending approach:
Through funding on Kiva, Agora Partnerships will be able to directly provide loans to some of the companies it supports. Loans will range from traditional short-term working capital loans to encourage growth and sustainability to more innovative longer term and cash flow/revenue based lending products customized to the particular needs of the companies.
Some of the loans will also include an “in-kind” community reinvestment so that the borrowers can reinvest funds in their communities. The latter is based on a model that has been successfully implemented by Agora Partnerships for one of its partners in Nicaragua.
Repayment Performance on Kiva
This Lending Partner | All Kiva Partners | ||
Start Date On Kiva | May 5, 2015 | Oct 12, 2005 | |
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Total Loans | $422,000 | $2,061,041,065 | |
Amount of raised Inactive loans | $0 | $311,410 | |
Number of raised Inactive loans | 0 | 365 | |
Amount of Paying Back Loans | $0 | $151,019,205 | |
Number of Paying Back Loans | 0 | 179,653 | |
Amount of Ended Loans | $422,000 | $1,864,416,345 | |
Number of Ended Loans | 13 | 2,517,078 | |
Delinquency Rate | 0.00% | 11.65% | |
Amount in Arrears | $0 | $10,591,703 | |
Outstanding Portfolio | $0 | $90,885,235 | |
Number of Loans Delinquent | 0 | 34,499 | |
Default Rate | 7.58% | 1.83% | |
Amount of Ended Loans Defaulted | $32,000 | $34,067,325 | |
Number of Ended Loans Defaulted | 1 | 91,294 | |
Currency Exchange Loss Rate | 0.00% | 0.47% | |
Amount of Currency Exchange Loss | $0 | $12,915,654 | |
Refund Rate | 8.29% | 0.55% | |
Amount of Refunded Loans | $35,000 | $11,263,070 | |
Number of Refunded Loans | 1 | 9,868 |
Loan Characteristics On Kiva
This Lending Partner | All Kiva Partners | ||
Loans to Women Borrowers | 42.86% | 78.51% | |
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Average Loan Size | $32,643 | $393 | |
Average Individual Loan Size | $32,643 | $585 | |
Average Group Loan Size | $0 | $1,914 | |
Average number of borrowers per group | 0 | 8.3 | |
Average GDP per capita (PPP) in local country | $11,100 | $5,592 | |
Average Loan Size / GDP per capita (PPP) | 294.08% | 7.03% | |
Average Time to Fund a Loan | 9.3 days | 9.14 days | |
Average Dollars Raised Per Day Per Loan | $3,511.68 | $43.02 | |
Average Loan Term | 28.14 months | 11.5 months |
Journaling Performance on Kiva
This Lending Partner | All Kiva Partners | ||
Total Journals | 13 | 1,228,446 | |
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Journaling Rate | 76.92% | 41.93% | |
Average Number of Comments Per Journal | 0.00 | 0.02 | |
Average Number of Recommendations Per Journal | 0.00 | 0.55 |
Borrowing Cost Comparison (based on 2017 data)
This Lending Partner | Median for MFI's in Country | All Kiva Partners | ||
Average Cost to Borrower | 8% APR | N/A | 27.12% PY | |
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Profitability (return on assets) | 51.4% | N/A | -1.71% | |
Average Loan Size (% of per capita income) | N/A | N/A | 0.00% |
Country Fast Facts
- Country:
- Colombia
- Capital:
- Bogota
- Official Language:
- Spanish
- Population:
- 46,245,297
- Avg Annual Income:
- $11,100
- Labor Force:
- agriculture: 17%, industry: 21%, services: 62%
- Population Below Poverty Line:
- 32.70%
- Literacy Rate:
- 93.60%
- Infant Mortality Rate (per 1000):
- 15.02 deaths
- Life Expectancy:
- 75.25 years