Our Impact

At Nest we are driven by the opportunity to transform lives through socially and environmentally impactful investments. Consequently, we embrace the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across all our projects. As Nest partners with businesses across the African continent, your savings and investments are directly impacting the lives of millions of creditworthy entrepreneurs and SMEs who have limited access to business capital.

See how your savings partnership with Nest is changing the world…

Our SD Goals

As we embrace across our projects

SDG 1: No Poverty

We provide support to the financially excluded communities via their commercial activities.

Cooperatives

The rural communities are more in tune with embracing agricultural production and creating informal cooperatives to guide and cater to their mutual interest and needs.

Some of these cooperatives are involved in:

  • Cash crop farming: rice, tomatoes, soya beans, millet and peppers
  • Retail trading: resale of food and grocery items
  • By-product production: Milling and oil processing
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SDG 2: Zero Hunger

The culmination of earning income and harvesting enough produce ensures that there is sufficient food for the farmers and other members of their community.

Agropreneurship

With a majority of our current beneficiaries being from mostly farming communities, we realized the bigger challenge in terms of capacity to store and transport efficiently.

Some of our financing has gone towards enabling the:

  • Practice of smarter storage and handling measures to ensure that the yield is delivered in the volume it is dispatched.
  • Optimizing capacity for supply chain vendors.

SDG 3: Good health & well-being

Through our continuous involvement in providing finance to the unbanked, the beneficiaries are better equipped to live viable & healthier lives.

Lifestyle

As a result of the earlier rounds of financing we provided, the beneficiaries are better equipped to live viable & healthier lives.

Some of these cooperatives are involved in:

  • Cash crop farming: rice, tomatoes, soya beans, millet and peppers
  • Retail trading: resale of food and grocery items
  • By-product production: Milling and oil processing
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SDG 5: Gender equality

Reviving a sense of worth and confidence by micro trade financing

Women Empowerment

Supporting female entrepreneurs with micro-funding that enables them to engage in trade, even in situations where women are only allowed to trade in and around their homes.

Our partnership with the women groups has also allowed them to regain a sense of personal pride in the fact that they can also be contributors to their family and the society at large.

Activities common here include

  • Food crop milling & grinding for sale or as a service
  • Retail trading: resale of food and grocery items
  • By-product production: Milling and oil processing

SDG 17: Partnership for the goals

Reviving a sense of worth and confidence by micro trade financing

Association and Capacity Building Partnerships

Our most diverse partnership comes in the form of the Cooperative Financing Association of Nigeria.

Through them we were able to achieve an initial round of business financing for a range of micro businesses in Abuja.

Benefits of the partnership have included:

  • Providing microfinance to over 500 micro businesses
  • Enlightenment opportunity at their National Summit
  • Submission of a partnership bid for an agency Application that drives financial inclusion by use