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Agri-Value Chain Growth Fund
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MSME development fund
Backing the entrepreneurs building tomorrow’s economies
LEAP Fund is Leaders International’s regional facility for micro, small and medium enterprises — pairing grant funding with hands-on business development so MSMEs in Palestine, Jordan and Tunisia can grow, compete and create jobs.
Offices on the route
- AmmanJordan
- RamallahPalestine
- TunisTunisia
- BrusselsBelgium
Why the fund exists
Money on its own does not grow a business.
Every LEAP grant travels with the advisors, certification and buyers behind it — which is why we measure a grant by whether the business is still growing three years after it clears.
The fund, on the record
- Operating countries
- 3
- MSMEs supported
- 200+
- Priority sectors
- 4
- Parent organisation track record
- 20+ yrs
Who can apply
One ladder, three rungs
Support is sized to where a business already stands. Each rung has its own ceiling, its own evidence and its own call windows — you apply to the rung you are on, not the one above it.
Entrepreneurs
Idea proven, first customers landing
- Pre-revenue to early revenue
- A model that can scale beyond the founder
- Registered, or registering during the grant
Microbusinesses
Trading, owner-operated, ready to formalise
- 1–9 employees
- At least one full year of trading
- Books good enough to plan from
Enterprises
Established, scaling or exporting
- 10–250 employees
- Two or more years of operations
- A market to enter, or a line to upgrade
Where we work
Three countries, one coordinating office
Programmes run out of the country teams; Brussels handles EU coordination and donor partnerships.
Amman
Jordan
Nationwide — entrepreneurship, tourism and supply-chain growth.
Ramallah
Palestine
West Bank and Gaza — MSME resilience, agri-value chains and digital livelihoods.
Tunis
Tunisia
Coastal and inland regions — sustainable tourism and manufacturing.
Brussels · HQ
Belgium
Brussels — headquarters, EU coordination and donor partnerships.
Portfolio
What the money did
Every grant is reported back through the business it funded.
Tunisia
Mogods Trail Experiences
A community-based operator in Tunisia’s north-west built a trail season that runs beyond the summer — and pays nine guides from the villages it crosses.
500+Visitors hosted
Jordan
Nashama Digital
An Amman software firm turned a tool it had built for one logistics client into a product two regional markets now pay for.
12Jobs created
Palestine
Wadi Farms Cooperative
An olive-oil cooperative in the northern West Bank scaled its processing line and passed EU export certification — and raised what its member households earn per season.
+40%Production capacity
Working together
Who stands behind the fund
LEAP Fund is delivered with donors, ministries, financial institutions and the private sector — and rests on twenty years of Leaders International partnerships.
LEAP Fund partners
Leaders International partners
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