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The tie-up between Proparco and Digital Africa will strengthen the Choose Africa initiative in supporting earl...
To meet the needs of entrepreneurs, particularly at the start of their ventures, the Choose Africa initiative will now offer African startups financing and assistance tailored to early-stage developme...
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Launching a New Global Industry Body that Convenes the Entire Spectrum of Investors to Promote Gender Lens Inv...
Some of the largest household names in the global investment industry today announced that they would be backing a new industry body set up to promote investment in women.
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Proparco 2020 Sustainable Development Report: A focus on Proparco’s project monitoring, its impact on gender ...
How does Proparco monitor the real impact of its projects? What impact do they have on female employment, and what measurement indicators has Proparco adopted? What does its extra-financial offer “PRO...
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G7 DFI and multilateral partners to invest over $80 billion into African businesses over the next five years
The G7 DFIs, the IFC, the private sector arm of the African Development Bank, EBRD and the European Investment Bank today announced that they were committed to investing $80 billion in the private sec...
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Global gender finance initiative sets ambitious new $15 billion fundraising goal after securing more than doub...
Over 200 businesses in the developing world received investment over the last three years.
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The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) joins the Finance in Common Initiative
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) enters the Finance in Common System (FiCS) by signing the Joint Declaration of all Public Development Banks in the World. This new endorsement of the global...
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AFD Group and EBRD to strengthen cooperation
Addressing key development challenges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Groupe Agence Française de Développement (AFD), throu...
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Choose Africa launches the FISEA+ facility: a new EUR 210m investment capacity for African MSMEs
In 2009, AFD Group set up the FISEA facility with the objective of promoting economic growth and the creation of start-ups and MSMEs on the continent. As the initial investment capacity of EUR 250m ha...
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Save the date: on 8 June, PROPARCO invites you to its digital broadcast “Choose Africa On Air”
The “Choose Africa On Air” digital broadcast on 8 June will bring together economic players, entrepreneurs, experts and financial partners to share their experiences and exchange ideas live. You wi...
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GICAM, Proparco and AFD join forces to draft Central Africa's first code of good governance for companies
The signing of a partnership between GICAM and AFD Group will enable the work undertaken since January 2020 to continue within the framework of the Good Corporate Governance Initiative. The Code of Go...
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International Collaboration of DFIs agree new steps to increase the resilience of economies threatened by the ...
The Group of G7 Development Finance Institutions working together under the DFIs+ Adaptation and Resilience Collaborative has put forward a practical plan to the G7 on actions to accelerate investment...
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2020 annual results : €2 billion of commitments, major impacts on development and a mobilization in response t...
This morning, AFD Group presented the figures for its activities in 2020. Despite an exceptional context marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, Proparco, the Group’s private sector financing arm, has topped...
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Choose Africa takes a new step!
Since the launch of the Choose Africa initiative in 2019, AFD Group has been mobilizing to support start-ups, VSEs and SMEs in Africa. In response to the crisis triggered by Covid-19, it is strengthen...
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Choose Africa: AFD Group mobilizes an additional 1 billion euros to support MSMEs affected by the crisis in Af...
To mark the 3rd anniversary of the Ouagadougou speech during which the French President, Emmanuel Macron, announced a strong commitment by France alongside African entrepreneurs, AFD Group has committ...
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Finance in Common: read the main announcements and declarations of the Summit
All the public development banks will meet for the first time on November 11th and 12th to discuss major international issues. This international event will take place within the framework of the 3rd...
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Bridge Fund by Digital Africa
Promoted by Digital Africa and deployed by Proparco, the Bridge Fund by Digital Africa is intended to be an appropriate response to the challenges confronting young innovative African companies, whose...
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China: Proparco signs two new projects to support women microentrepreneurs in rural areas and finance electri...
PROPARCO has just signed two new loans in China. The first USD 20m loan has been allocated to CD Finance, China’s main microfinance institution in rural areas. It will be exclusively earmarked for acc...
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Proparco at a glance
With €2.5 billion in commitments and €1.7 billion in signatures, Proparco has continued its strong growth in 2019 in the service of the private sector and sustainable development. A total of 85 new pr...
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The SIBC accelerates and commits itself alongside entrepreneurs operating in Africa to address the Covid 19 cr...
After being imagined and incubated by the AFD Campus du Développement, the Social & Inclusive Business Camp (SIBC) will be piloted over the next three years by I&P Conseil and its partners - African M...
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Proparco, IFC to Collaborate More Closely to Deliver Stronger Development Impact and Accelerate COVID-19 Recov...
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Proparco have agreed to collaborate more closely to create markets, mobilize private sector investment, and support economic recovery in developing countries...
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