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Europe’s huge opportunity: mobilising the private sector for development
“Team Europe” is a space that allows for strengthened cooperation across European development finance actors. For the European DFIs, strengthened cooperation with EU institutions will be key to enabli...
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Credo Bank Attracted EUR 16.5 million from Proparco to Support MSMEs in Georgia
The five-year investment facility aims to provide post pandemic support to micro, small and medium sized enterprises in Georgia, as well as building further resilience to cope with regional uncertaint...
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Proparco and Digital Africa join forces to provide a range of financing solutions for startups "Made in Africa...
As part of its 2022-2025 roadmap, Digital Africa will support 200 African startups at different stages of their growth with a wide range of offers at their disposal. Thanks to a joint and sustainable...
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The European Union and France are supporting the development of responsible financial inclusion in Madagascar,...
On the occasion of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which began on January 1 and ends on June 30, 2022, Proparco and the European Union (EU) are continuing their partnership...
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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M Series A, fueling expansion across Africa and the Middle East
Africinvest and Proparco lead round with the participation of Wamda Capital as startup democratizes tech education across Africa and Middle East
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Proparco increases its support to Ivorian MSMEs
On the occasion of the first visit to Côte d'Ivoire of Proparco's new CEO Françoise Lombard, Proparco granted 6 portfolio guarantees to Société Générale Côte d'Ivoire, Ecobank Côte d'Ivoire and Advans...
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Proparco invests $12m in Africa frontier-market investor Maris, under the FISEA+ initiative
Proparco, through AFD Group’s FISEA+ initiative, has just closed a $12m equity round with Maris Limited, an impact investor with expertise in frontier markets in East and Southern Africa.
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With Microinvest, Proparco is supporting Moldova’s economic fabric hard hit by the war in Ukraine
With a €8 million loan allocated to the microfinance institution Microinvest via its subsidiary Proparco, AFD Group is supporting Moldova’s private sector which is facing major challenges due to the e...
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Proparco makes $25M investment into small-scale renewable energy capacity buildout in sub-Saharan Africa
French Development Finance Institution Proparco invests 25 MUSD in Serengeti Energy, a Sub-Saharan hydro and solar-specialized independent power producer which develops, constructs, owns and operates...
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Proparco makes a proposed equity investment of USD 10M in MUA
Proparco is set to make an equity investment of USD 10M, becoming MUA’s largest international institutional shareholder. This investment is a strong vote of confidence in MUA’s regional growth ambitio...
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European DFIs in a troubled world: strategic actors of the European financial architecture for development
In a rapidly changing world threatened by the risk of irreversible climate change, major crises and an increasingly polarised world order, Europe has to articulate its external actions in a more strat...
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Proparco invests via FISEA+ in the new European solidarity financing fund for Africa, FEFISOL II
Launch of the new European solidarity financing fund for Africa, FEFISOL II, with a first closing of 22.5 million euros and a technical support envelope of 1 million euros. Following the success of...
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2021 Results : €2.3 billion in commitments to strengthen the private sector's contribution to the Sustainable ...
In 2021, for the third consecutive year, Proparco has deployed more than €2 billion in annual commitments. Last year, Proparco's priority was to continue to support its clients to limit the impact of...
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Proparco invests USD 25M in GEF Latam Climate Solutions Fund III
Proparco has committed USD 25 million in a first closing of USD 96 million alongside the EIB and private investors. This is Proparco's second investment with GEF, a global asset manager, specialized i...
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Proparco marks its first operation ever in Moldova with a €8 million loan to Microinvest
The partnership, signed during AFD Group CEO Rémy Rioux’s first visit in Moldova, demonstrates the Group’s commitment to supporting Moldova and its private sector, which faces major challenges due to...
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2021 results in five key points
Despite the economic difficulties related to the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2021, PROPARCO returned to growth by increasing its commitments and strengthening their impacts. With €2.3 billion of financing a...
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Building a collaborative recovery
Collaboration among European DFIs has continued to grow during the pandemic and has helped these institutions achieve their investment objectives based on complementary expertise, networks and capacit...
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Proparco supports BRAC International Microfinance’s capital markets programme
The international arm of one of the world’s largest development organisations, BRAC, has launched a capital markets debt programme that will secure financing for its microfinance operations for the co...
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New issue of the magazine Private Sector & Development: #37 Faced with the crisis: what prospects for the priv...
The 37th edition of Proparco's Private Sector & Development (PS&D) magazine, produced with the association EDFI, gives a voice to European development finance institutions and presents their responses...
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Innovative responses to Covid-19 for private sector recovery in Africa
In Africa, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have been the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in the biggest contraction in Africa in the last 25 years. While large-scale e...
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