Key micro-level achievements have included:

• Promoting innovative approaches to finance agriculture. These include warehouse receipt financing system, a guarantee scheme for maize cooperatives, weather index insurance and unlocking finance for coffee wet mills through use of technology in partnership with coffee exporters;
• Supporting financial institutions to set up specialised agriculture finance units;
• Promoting the use of pro-poor methodologies (e.g. savings led methodologies like Village Savings and Loans Associations) to reach the most excluded;
• Setting up and operationalising the Microfinance Challenge Fund;
• Supporting the management and expansion of agency banking;
• Promoting financial inclusion for the youth through financial education and mobilise financial services;
• Facilitating payments of tea small holder farmers in partnership with SACCO and TIGO.

Key meso-level achievements have included:

• Developed financial education curriculum and supported its integration into the primary and secondary school curriculum;
• Partnered with the Microfinance, Insurance and Bankers associations to promote the development of the financial sector;
• Institutional capacity building of financial institutions to improve their operational and management systems;
• Umurenge -SACCO automatisation and capacity building on management and governance.

At the macro level, AFR  supported the development of key government policies and strategies as follows :

• National Microfinance Strategy;
• National Financial Education Strategy;
• Alignment of the Financial Sector Development Programme II (FSDP II) with the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) Format;
• FinScope survey for 2008 and 2012,
• National Rural Agricultural Financial Service Strategy;
• Feasibility study on Crop Yield and Livestock Insurance;
• Understanding the demand and supply of refinancing in Rwanda;
• National Electronic Payments Strategy;
• Development of interoperability policy and guidelines;
• Assessment of the feasibility of informal pensions;