Empowering Development
LANDT’s purpose is to provide support in improving access to finance in diverse economic contexts across the globe. We help to unlock potential of institutions, entrepreneurs and to facilitate growth, jobs and income in challenging environments.
LANDT is an international group with head office in Berlin and more than 70 staff members and advisors in different countries, including Germany, Italy, Kenya and Nigeria. LANDT strives to establish better lending opportunities through designing, setting-up and managing credit guarantee funds and TA to formal financial institutions.
Design, implementation and management of CGFs for access to finance
LANDT designs, implements and manages credit guarantee funds, which cover a share of the default risk of loans provided by PFIs to their borrowers. CGFs encourage PFIs to mobilize underutilized capital as credits, so that they can provide an easier and more accessible financing for potential MSME borrowers.
Technical Assistance to build capacities
LANDT provides tailored TA services in various forms – as TA project administrator vis-à-vis the managed CGFs and as TA services provider to CGFs, which are looking to innovate, improve their structures and beyond. The main distinction between TA and consultancy activities, is that TA is geared towards cooperation with existing CGFs, whereas recipients of consulting are not necessarily CGFs.
Consultancy to share experience
LANDT provides a variety of consulting services to expand operations and unlock potential of CGFs. LANDT conducts feasibility studies that aim to diagnose circumstances of a country to provide best possibilities for capacity building and shares its own expertise through conceptual workshops.
LANDT's Track Record Overview
LANDT’s Objectives:
LANDT’s philosophy strives to achieve sustainable impact. Through its efforts, LANDT seeks to empower the staff of its partners as well as of its own. LANDT’s objectives comprise:
Enabling progress in challenging environments:
LANDT nurtures growth of the financial sector in frontier, crisis and post-crisis markets by mobilizing and deploying funds effectively and sustainably.
Local impact through local presence:
The defining feature of LANDT’s approach is the combination of international best practice and local expertise. Whereby local experts ensure effective implementation through specific country knowledge and international experts provide the necessary supervision, coaching and secure compliance with international best practice.
Sharing expertise with methods & tools:
LANDT develops methods, systems, tools and processes which are scalable and transferable to other countries. This is done with the highest consideration of the specific environment and is fine-tuned accordingly.
Unlocking potential and facilitating growth, jobs and income. It gives me great joy to shape this work and see its impact.”
Path to Success
LANDT has a well-established method that leads it to success in challenging environments.
Design
LANDT is well-aware that every country has unique strengths, weaknesses, needs and challenges which need to be considered. What LANDT does is carefully analyzing these conditions, addressing the needs of FIs, offering the best solutions to overcome challenges and subsequently designing the best and most efficient MSME-lending program that benefit FIs, governments and international actors in MSME-financing.
LANDT’s portfolio is based on donors and investors, and its success proves that the promise is kept. With its reputation of being a reliable partner, LANDT proudly seeks more opportunities for further funding to be utilized in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, as well as other countriesin order to expand its activities of managing, designing and setting-up credit guarantee funds.
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Impact
Through critical analysis and careful selection, LANDT has established successful partnerships and is acknowledged as a reliable ally in MSME sector. Enduring the same critical mindset, LANDT seeks more international and local partnerships to widen the capacity of its credit guarantees and TA services.
With expanding its portfolio and being surrounded by reliable partners, LANDT is dedicated to presenting more encouraging solutions to formal FIs. While remaining an invisible partner to the citizens, LANDT concurrently looks out for the business owners’ benefits who are highly motivated, yet lacking opportunities to develop their businesses through formal credits. LANDT is not here just to leave a footprint in the MSME sector, but to walk along in good and bad times with the ultimate goal of economic growth and prosperity in society.
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