LadyAgri: Driving Gender-Inclusive Financing

Industry: Agriculture & Supply chain
Solution: Survey Analysis and Statistical Modeling
Impact: Data-driven financial inclusion strategies for women-led cooperatives

Overview
LadyAgri is an organisation dedicated to empowering women in agriculture. In Côte d’Ivoire, they wanted to better understand the financial challenges faced by women-led cassava cooperatives—and tailor support accordingly. They partnered with Ishango to transform raw survey data into actionable insights.

The Challenge
LadyAgri had collected hundreds of responses from women’s cooperatives but needed support in cleaning, analysing, and extracting trends that could guide impactful interventions. They were also looking for a partner who could understand both the technical and contextual dimensions of their work.

The Ishango Approach
Our data scientists applied both statistical and natural language processing techniques to analyse quantitative and qualitative responses. We developed a set of reusable data processing scripts and uncovered key barriers to financial access based on gender, region, and business structure.

The Result
LadyAgri used the insights to design more targeted financial support programs and strengthen advocacy for women farmers.