Our impact
Numbers without a mechanism are marketing. Every figure below is tied to how it is produced, how it is measured and where it came from.
Reach to date
1,000+
Farmers connected
Email Deck, June 2026 — Impact
150+
Rural producers registered
Email Deck, June 2026 — Impact
৳ 1.02 Cr
Mobilised into farming
Email Deck, June 2026 — Funding
70%
Women participation
Overview Deck, July 2026 — Traction
15%
Persons with disabilities
Overview Deck, July 2026 — Traction
What we are working toward
50,000
smallholder farmers reached
Particularly women and persons with disabilities living below or near the poverty line.
1,000+ connected so far — about 2% of the goal
20,000
rural input partners by 2030
Each with improved, sustainable livelihoods and access to markets.
DigiGram 2030 commitment
Up to 30%
income increase from baseline
Through fair and transparent pricing. Pilot cohorts have recorded a 20% increase so far.
Impact statement · pilot results, Overview Deck July 2026
Figures are as reported in DigiGram's June and July 2026 company decks. Independently verified figures will replace them as the measurement framework matures.
Impact statement
DigiGram Ventures Ltd. was established to deliver inclusive finance, quality and affordable inputs, periodic training and market access — in order to produce the following changes for 50,000 smallholder farmers, particularly women and persons with disabilities, living below or near the poverty line in rural Bangladesh.
Outcomes 1–4 are the delivery mechanisms; 5–11 are the changes they are intended to produce.
Impact areas
Each area is stated the same way: the problem as it stands in Bangladesh, the part of it our work addresses, and the indicator we record to show whether it is working.
We track: Household income against the baseline recorded at enrolment.
We track: Share of women and caregivers among participants, recorded per project.
We track: Share of persons with disabilities among participants, recorded per project.
We track: Training and advisory completion, recorded in each farmer's profile.
Gender and disability inclusion
Seven in ten of the people we work with are women, and more than one in seven live with a disability. That stays true only if every product is built for the constraints they actually face — time, literacy, mobility — rather than adapted for them afterwards.
Enterprises run from the homestead — livestock, kitchen gardens, crafts — with inputs delivered and output collected through the cooperative, so nobody gives up a day at home to reach a market.
Shathi Apa takes spoken questions, reads every answer aloud in Bangla and accepts a photo where words are hard. It is even written never to assume that a farmer is a man.
Cooperatives and field officers onboard, verify and visit. While a farmer's verification is pending, the app shows the name and number of their area's field officer.
Shadhin feed is produced with rural women's cooperatives and distributed through local ones such as Walia Shimul Mohila Samabaya Samity — so the jobs the chain creates go to women too.
Theory of change
01
Digital tools, capital and market access through partnerships; investment raised for rural producers and operations.
02
Inclusive projects in agriculture, livestock, crafts and eco-friendly goods; SOPs for risk mitigation; partnerships for market expansion.
03
Empowered rural producers, increased digital literacy, and expanded market access for their products.
04
Improved financial independence, reduced poverty and greater environmental sustainability for rural communities.
05
Rural economies transformed — poverty reduced, gender equality advanced, sustainable growth aligned with the SDGs.
Shathi ShebaA household with land, livestock and a decade of production can still be commercially invisible: no credit record, no published price, no buyer on paper. Shathi Sheba exists to close that gap, and the gap is measurable.
15%
have formal credit access
The other 85% depend on costly informal loans.
Source: Shathi Sheba Product Deck v0.1 — Barriers
30%
price loss at the farm gate
70% face mobility limits, so the buyer sets the price.
Source: Shathi Sheba Product Deck v0.1 — Barriers
10–15%
of women reach agri advice
Against more than 50% of men — the same extension services.
Source: Shathi Sheba Product Deck v0.1 — Barriers
60%
of rural cattle sheds sit idle
Capacity is there; capital and skills are not.
Source: Shathi Sheba Product Deck v0.1 — Barriers
The assessment separates credit risk from readiness, and readiness from the quality of the evidence behind it. A profile that is not yet financeable gets a development plan rather than a closed door — which is what turns a decline into a future applicant.
Shathi Sheba provides decision support. Licensed lenders keep approval authority.
Complete, verified and suitable for lender submission. Approval remains the lender's decision.
Financeable with project safeguards, cooperative validation or a limited ticket size.
Complete advisory tasks, documents, records or a quiz, then apply for reassessment.
A hard stop or a major risk stands until it is corrected. The reason and the appeal route are shown.
Why DigiGram
Gender and disability inclusion is a design constraint on every journey, not a reporting line at the end.
Eco-friendly goods, artisanal crafts and sustainable agriculture that a household can keep running after the cycle ends.
Producers connect directly with the funders, buyers and lenders they need, with capital, markets and training moving through one accountable channel.
Tools built for low-literacy users — voice, photos and Bangla — with real-time monitoring and transparency for every partner.
Field stories
A rural repair business runs on cash and memory: no accounts, no statement, nothing a lender can read. Recording purchases, sales and customers turned a decade of trading into an enterprise profile — and the profile, not the shop, is what a bank could finally assess.
Before the cycle, the sale price was whatever the broker offered on the day. Now the per-kilogram rate — B2B price, platform fee, logistics, vet care and the net farmer rate — is on the screen before the animal leaves the shed. The negotiation ends before it starts.
Composite accounts drawn from field observations. Named stories require the producer's consent before publication.
Methodology
Impact is measured through an Impact Monitoring and Measurement (IMM) framework covering four value drivers and eleven stated outcomes. Each project cohort has a household baseline recorded at enrolment; change is measured against that baseline, not against a national average.
We do not claim attribution for change we cannot trace to a project cohort.
Reporting and governance
Monthly project updates
To funders and partners, for every active cycle.
Annual impact report
Outcomes against the baselines recorded at enrolment.
Verified at source
Cooperative and field-officer sign-off on every recorded value.
Consent and privacy
Named stories only with the producer's consent; personal data handled under our Privacy Policy.
SDG alignment
Claiming a whole goal says very little. These are the seven Sustainable Development Goal targets our work contributes to, and the part of the work that does it.
Equal rights to economic resources and access to financial services, including microfinance, for the poor and vulnerable.
Verified enterprise profiles and lender-ready applications that bring thin-file farmers within reach of formal credit.
Double the productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, through access to inputs, knowledge, finance and markets.
Graded feed and inputs, training, finance and a committed buyer for each production cycle.
Recognise and value unpaid care and domestic work.
Home-based livelihoods designed around care responsibilities instead of in competition with them.
Give women equal rights to economic resources and access to financial services.
70% women participation, and women's cooperatives that produce and distribute Shadhin feed.
Promote the economic inclusion of all, irrespective of sex, disability or economic status.
15% of participants are persons with disabilities, and advice is spoken aloud so reading is never the barrier.
Substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.
Waste management and reduced single-use plastic across our projects.
Improve awareness and capacity on climate adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
Weather alerts and climate-smart farming advice delivered in Shathi Sheba.
Target wording paraphrased from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals framework.
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