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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
Total Loans $422,000 $2,047,627,740
Amount of raised Inactive loans $0 $324,550
Number of raised Inactive loans 0 187
Amount of Paying Back Loans $0 $154,885,235
Number of Paying Back Loans 0 186,826
Amount of Ended Loans $422,000 $1,851,531,775
Number of Ended Loans 13 2,491,990
Delinquency Rate 0.00% 12.00%
Amount in Arrears $0 $11,217,121
Outstanding Portfolio $0 $93,462,698
Number of Loans Delinquent 0 54,050
Default Rate 7.58% 1.82%
Amount of Ended Loans Defaulted $32,000 $33,752,545
Number of Ended Loans Defaulted 1 89,005
Currency Exchange Loss Rate 0.00% 0.47%
Amount of Currency Exchange Loss $0 $12,729,635
Refund Rate 8.29% 0.53%
Amount of Refunded Loans $35,000 $10,938,345
Number of Refunded Loans 1 9,670

Loan Characteristics On Kiva

    This Lending Partner All Kiva Partners
  Loans to Women Borrowers 42.86% 78.48%
Average Loan Size $32,643 $393
Average Individual Loan Size $32,643 $586
Average Group Loan Size $0 $1,910
Average number of borrowers per group 0 8.3
Average GDP per capita (PPP) in local country $11,100 $5,593
Average Loan Size / GDP per capita (PPP) 294.08% 7.03%
Average Time to Fund a Loan 9.3 days 9.12 days
Average Dollars Raised Per Day Per Loan $3,511.68 $43.08
  Average Loan Term 28.14 months 11.5 months

Journaling Performance on Kiva

    This Lending Partner All Kiva Partners
  Total Journals 13 1,221,287
  Journaling Rate 76.92% 41.91%
  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 26.44% PY
  Profitability (return on assets) 51.4% N/A -1.32%
  Average Loan Size (% of per capita income) N/A N/A 0.00%

Country Fast Facts

Lending Partner Staff

Maria Duarte
Christina Lukeman