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Senegal: Gade Gui launches table egg production with support from Proparco

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In Dakar, Proparco has granted a long-term structured loan to Gade Gui , one of the leading companies in the poultry industry and a key player in Senegal’s food security. This marks Proparco’s first direct transaction with an SME in West Africa through its new “SMEs Scale Up” facility.

The total financing provided by Proparco to Gade Gui amounts to 2.5 billion CFA francs (around €4 million) for the construction and operation of a laying chicken hens farm (growing, laying, sorting, and packaging). The facility will eventually produce over 80 million high-quality eggs.

This operation also supports Gade Gui -already recognized as a major player in Senegal’s broiler chicken industry- as it expands into the local table egg production segment.

In a context of demographic growth and rapid urbanization, ensuring access to affordable and high-quality animal protein is a key factor for food security. Expanding table egg production capacity -the most affordable source of animal protein- strengthens Gade Gui’s contribution to improving food availability for the Senegalese population.

The equipment and technical support are provided by NTD France, an international leader in high-quality poultry farm installations based in the Gers region of France.

We are very pleased to count Proparco among our financial partners for this flagship project that contributes to food security in Senegal. Gade Gui has demonstrated its ability to operate according to the highest international standards and reaffirms its daily commitment to providing quality food products to Senegalese consumers while creating jobs.

Adama Sène Cissé

  • President of Gade Gui

We are proud to support the impressive growth of Gade Gui, which continues to expand successfully across several segments of Senegal’s poultry value chain. This project highlights Proparco’s strong commitment to supporting food security in West Africa and to directly financing fast-growing SMEs. Our new ‘SMEs Scale Up’ facility is designed to back future national and regional champions with long-term, flexible financial instruments adapted to their needs.

Sadio Dicko

  • Proparco’s Regional Director for West Africa

To encourage the emergence of national and regional champions, Proparco now finances SMEs planning major productive investments -particularly in the agro-industrial sector. The “SMEs Scale Up” facility offers structured debt financing (up to €5 million) to established and profitable companies that struggle to access long-term, flexible funding suited to their growth trajectories, including long maturities and grace periods.

As part of these financings, Proparco mobilizes its technical and commercial teams based in regional offices to work closely with clients -supporting them with project structuring, sequencing, financial forecasting, and enhanced legal due diligence.

Our goal with the ‘SMEs Scale Up’ facility is twofold: first, to provide appropriate financing for large-scale projects that require significant implementation and ramp-up time; and second, to conduct an in-depth review of the project to ensure that our clients’ management teams have strong risk control capabilities. Over time, we see our clients strengthening their internal systems, and completing a first direct development finance loan always opens up major new opportunities for them, which is highly rewarding.

Jean-Baptiste Jouve

  • Head of Corporate Financing for West Africa at Proparco