How we work
We support coffee & cocoa producer organizations to become professional businesses by offering a customized approach to all our projects and initiatives. By combining our expertise and network for professional technical assistance, with the online accessible Beyco trading platform, and our Progreso Fund to finance the small organizations that are not yet able to have other sources of access to finance, we are able to support smallholder farmer organizations holistically.
Technical assistance
Technical assistance has been Progreso’s core activity since the start in 1998. Progreso works with coffee and cocoa producer organizations on their path to become sustainable businesses and reliable supply chain partners. To do so, Progreso provides a collection of trainings and consultancy assignments for these organizations.
This approach is divided in three pillars:
A. General training on any aspect related to coffee and cocoa trade
B. Individual advice and support for organizations to strengthen their position
C. Coaching and implementation of a developed action plan with an individual organization
While the three steps together create the highest impact, it is possible to pick & mix. Our program is tailored for each organization and depends on the local situation and possibilities. We always analyse the current situation and plan together with the organisation depending on their needs. Our intention is always that internal capacity is strengthened so organisations can stand on their own feet.
General trainings can be conducted with individual organizations, but it can also be conducted in groups.
We offer the following training modules:
0. Business Management: what is the business and what is important.
1. Organization: How is a coop organized, what is important within an organization
2. Administration: Why and what is important in the administration
3. Product: Why and what is important to really know your product. It is never just ‘coffee’ or ‘cocoa’.
4. Promotion and Marketing: what to think of and why
5. Price: Pricing the product, negotiation and Price Risk Management
6. Exporting: Everything related to exporting coffee directly, required documents, instructions, insurance etc.
7. Contracting: what are different types of contracts, incoterms, definitions etc related to contracts.
8. Finance: What different types of finance exist, options and required documents for finance
For individual advice and support we analyze with the organization what their current level of knowledge is, and we make a plan of action to further strengthen their organization and/or specific activities. This is often related to a specific topic within the coffee and cocoa trade with a clear objective to be reached within 1-3 months.
Coaching and implementation is a long-term trajectory in which a full business analysis is done with an organization and a holistic plan of action is developed to support the organization to becoming a professional business. These projects are unique for every organization, taking into account access to finance, access to markets, quality improvements, capacity building, sustainability and diversification.
BEYCO Access to market and access to finance
Beyco is a blockchain based coffee trading platform developed by Progreso Foundation. It is developed to respond to the needs from coffee buyers, sellers and impact investors to be directly connected and facilitates traceability in the coffee value chain.
Through Beyco buyers traders/service providers and sellers from all over the world can connect with each other online, establish sales and sign export contracts and trade their coffee on Beyco. By trading on the platform, data is stored safely and can be shared with partners and other Beyco users with flexible and customizable levels of visibility.
With the platform we do not only provide a tool for efficiency and transparency in the coffee value chain, but we also facilitate the digital connection between buyers, sellers and financiers to overcome the producer organizations’ biggest barrier: to have access to markets and finance at the same time. Beyco platform facilitates the creation of commercial and financial track records for sellers, buyers and financial institutions.
Recently the financier profile has been added to Beyco to gain efficiency for financial institutions in understanding risks, selecting verified prospects and providing credits.
Independent and transparent
Beyco is the first online coffee trading platform developed by a foundation. Beyco optimizes coffee trading activities and creates transparency on indicators that both buying and selling parties agree such as quality, certification, precise origin, and farmers involved in these trades within the global supply chain, while providing access to finance for producer organizations related to their green coffee contracts. Next to Beyco platform we have a Beyco farmer app and dashboard, which work both offline and online.
Beyco is active for 4 years now and over 400 cooperatives, 50 service providers/traders, 160 buying organizations and several social lenders are actively using it.
Beyco in short:
Traceability
Build up a track record and generate trust among all stakeholders in the supply chain.
Access to markets
Find new sellers or buyers and digitise existing connections.
Independent
Beyco is owned by Progreso Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization
Efficiency
Get access to a real-time overview of available coffees, your purchases and sales.
Access to finance
Have coffee export contracts financed easily.
Transparency
Decide which information you want to share and with whom.
Progreso Fund
The Progreso Fund facilitates high-risk initial microcredit with ticket sizes below the threshold of social lenders. With the insights and understanding we obtain through our technical assistance activities, we our risk in providing these small loans. The Progreso Fund targets organizations that have potential to grow, but do not have access to finance yet.
Through the Progreso Fund organizations are able to start trading and build a track record. We also connect the coffee and cocoa producer organisations to the most reliable markets, to be able to grow further in market share. Once the organizations grow larger and have a track record, we link them to social lenders for further continuation of their business path.
Interested in finding out whether your organisation would be eligible for support from the Progreso Fund? Email our Progreso Fund Coordinator [of relevante collega] here [emailadres hyperlinked
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How we work
We support coffee & cocoa producer organizations to become professional businesses by offering a customized approach to all our projects and initiatives.
By combining our expertise and network for professional technical assistance, with the online accessible Beyco trading platform, and our Progreso Fund to finance the small organizations that are not yet able to have other sources of access to finance, we are able to support smallholder farmer organizations holistically.
Technical assistance
Technical assistance has been Progreso’s core activity since the start in 1998. Progreso works with coffee and cocoa producer organizations on their path to become sustainable businesses and reliable supply chain partners. To do so, Progreso provides a collection of trainings and consultancy assignments for these organizations.
A. General training on any aspect related to coffee and cocoa trade
B. Individual advice and support for organizations to strengthen their position
C. Coaching and implementation of a developed action plan with an individual organization
While the three steps together create the highest impact, it is possible to pick & mix. Our program is tailored for each organization and depends on the local situation and possibilities. We always analyse the current situation and plan together with the organisation depending on their needs. Our intention is always that internal capacity is strengthened so organisations can stand on their own feet.
can be conducted with individual organizations, but it can also be conducted in groups.
0. Business Management: what is the business and what is important.
1. Organization: How is a coop organized, what is important within an organization
2. Administration: Why and what is important in the administration
3. Product: Why and what is important to really know your product. It is never just ‘coffee’ or ‘cocoa’.
4. Promotion and Marketing: what to think of and why
5. Price: Pricing the product, negotiation and Price Risk Management
6. Exporting: Everything related to exporting coffee directly, required documents, instructions, insurance etc.
7. Contracting: what are different types of contracts, incoterms, definitions etc related to contracts.
8. Finance: What different types of finance exist, options and required documents for finance
For individual advice and support we analyze with the organization what their current level of knowledge is, and we make a plan of action to further strengthen their organization and/or specific activities. This is often related to a specific topic within the coffee and cocoa trade with a clear objective to be reached within 1-3 months.
is a long-term trajectory in which a full business analysis is done with an organization and a holistic plan of action is developed to support the organization to becoming a professional business. These projects are unique for every organization, taking into account access to finance, access to markets, quality improvements, capacity building, sustainability and diversification.
BEYCO Access to market and access to finance
Beyco is a blockchain based coffee trading platform developed by Progreso Foundation. It is developed to respond to the needs from coffee buyers, sellers and impact investors to be directly connected and facilitates traceability in the coffee value chain.
Through Beyco buyers traders/service providers and sellers from all over the world can connect with each other online, establish sales and sign export contracts and trade their coffee on Beyco. By trading on the platform, data is stored safely and can be shared with partners and other Beyco users with flexible and customizable levels of visibility.
With the platform we do not only provide a tool for efficiency and transparency in the coffee value chain, but we also facilitate the digital connection between buyers, sellers and financiers to overcome the producer organizations’ biggest barrier: to have access to markets and finance at the same time. Beyco platform facilitates the creation of commercial and financial track records for sellers, buyers and financial institutions.
Recently the financier profile has been added to Beyco to gain efficiency for financial institutions in understanding risks, selecting verified prospects and providing credits.
Beyco is the first online coffee trading platform developed by a foundation. Beyco optimizes coffee trading activities and creates transparency on indicators that both buying and selling parties agree such as quality, certification, precise origin, and farmers involved in these trades within the global supply chain, while providing access to finance for producer organizations related to their green coffee contracts. Next to Beyco platform we have a Beyco farmer app and dashboard, which work both offline and online.
Beyco is active for 4 years now and over 400 cooperatives, 50 service providers/traders, 160 buying organizations and several social lenders are actively using it.
Beyco in short:
Traceability
Build up a track record and generate trust among all stakeholders in the supply chain.
Access to markets
Find new sellers or buyers and digitise existing connections.
Independent
Beyco is owned by Progreso Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization
Efficiency
Get access to a real-time overview of available coffees, your purchases and sales.
Access to finance
Have coffee export contracts financed easily.
Transparency
Decide which information you want to share and with whom.
Progreso Fund
The Progreso Fund facilitates high-risk initial microcredit with ticket sizes below the threshold of social lenders. With the insights and understanding we obtain through our technical assistance activities, we our risk in providing these small loans. The Progreso Fund targets organizations that have potential to grow, but do not have access to finance yet.
Through the Progreso Fund organizations are able to start trading and build a track record. We also connect the coffee and cocoa producer organisations to the most reliable markets, to be able to grow further in market share. Once the organizations grow larger and have a track record, we link them to social lenders for further continuation of their business path.
Interested in finding out whether your organisation would be eligible for support from the Progreso Fund? Email our Progreso Fund Coordinator [of relevante collega] here [emailadres hyperlinked