Since 2017, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Feed the Future Strengthening Value Chains (SVC) Activity has worked with USAID to implement the Development Credit Authority (DCA) Guarantee with two partner banks, Equity and FINCA. In the first year of the SVC project, Equity Bank disbursed loans to several coffee cooperatives in South Kivu. In FY19, the SVC team leveraged the momentum from the success of these loans to provide more information to banks including recommendations to expand their financial services, improve their credit risk management, and deepen their knowledge of the agricultural sector (especially coffee).