Purchase Order Finance in Bolivia: Innovations in Financing Value Chains

In an effort to capture and disseminate innovative practices in the field of value chain finance, ACDI/VOCA, under the AMAP BDS  Knowledge and Practice II task order, solicited submissions for a competition from practitioners implementing value chain finance programs. The Innovations in Financing Value Chains competition was held in December 2008, and two selected winners were honored at an awards ceremony in February 2009. This case study details the methodology and experience of one of the winners, Crimson Capital/Chemonics' Rural Competitiveness Activity, which introduced a transaction-driven form of working financing capital to several value chains in Bolivia.