Publications and media
Factsheet Proparco
PROPARCO, AN INSTITUTION SERVING THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR 40 YEARS
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AFD - OVERVIEW
Building a more just and more sustainable world for all – a world in common – requires successfully achieving five main transitions, both over here and over there: energy, digital, territorial, demogr...
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Proparco Key Figures - 2016
THE PRIVATE SECTOR, AN ESSENTIAL DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH Proparco has sustained the momentum for the fifth year in a row, growing by 21% approving financing of close to €1.5 billion for businesses...
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Special issue - Private sector and digital innovation: catalyts for development
This special issue of Private Sector & Development magazine, published to mark Proparco’s 40th anniversary, focuses on how digital technology can help to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals...
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Forty years of actions supporting economic development
In this anniversary book, we highlight 40 projects that depict a portion of Proparco’s history. They were chosen because they have graced the pages of our annual reports, or have left a lasting mark o...
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Senergy, the largest solar power plant in Senegal / Immersion 360° PROPARCO
The Senergy photovoltaic power plant project combines the expertise of three French energy specialists: the Meridiam investment fund, the specialist solar energy constructor Solairedirect and Schneide...
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Golden Rice, leading actor of rice in Cambodia / Immersion 360° PROPARCO
Golden Rice was founded in 2009 and is Cambodia’s leading exporter of high-end jasmin rice. In 2013, Proparco granted the company a special loan of 10 million dollars over five years to help Golden Ri...
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MA's Food, sustainable agriculture in Sri Lanka / Immersion 360° PROPARCO
The Sri Lankan company MA’s Food was founded in 1986 and specialises in producing foods using spices and coconut. The company sources its food locally, preferably from smallholders whom it helps to ad...
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EXPANSION OF THE PUCMM UNIVERSITY OF SANTO DOMINGO / IMMERSION 360° PROPARCO
EXPANSION OF THE PUCMM UNIVERSITY OF SANTO DOMINGO / IMMERSION 360° PROPARCO In 2015, Proparco granted a 16 million dollar loan to the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra University (PU...
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AFD - Panorama 2016
With pragmatism and determination, AFD teams are currently working on more than 2,500 development projects across the world - supplying water to parched land and people in Jordan and electricity to th...
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PROPARCO's activity Report 2016
2016 was a significant year for Proparco: implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on financing for development, and the Paris Climate Agreement which...
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3 questions to Matthew Boadu Adjei, Founder & CEO of Oasis Capital Ghana Limited
This fund invests in SMEs in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire that help to improve access to essential goods for vulnerable sections of the population. AFD Group wishes to partner this initiative and it has ju...
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Cobra : the wind power challenge in Peru
PROPARCO, the French development finance institution, has raised a total of 69 million dollars to finance these projects, with a co-financing from its German and Dutch counterparts, as well as from th...
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The Assets of Tereos for Sustainability in the Agro-industry
This project in support of the Tereos Group is in many ways one of the most important in our Brazilian portfolio. First of all because it provides support to a key sector in the Brazilian agro-industr...
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HCor : Innovation as a tool to improve hospital care
The context of the project is the increasing demand for healthcare in Brazil, resulting from the demographic growth and ageing population, but also due to the fact that more Brazilians now have access...
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Private Sector & Development #27 - Vulnerabilities and crises: what role for companies?
Over two billion people throughout the world are currently living in countries in which development is being stymied by situations that are rife with conflict and violence. The growing number of both...
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Ethics Charter - AFD Group
Agence Française de Développement is a government body carrying out public policy, primarily overseas. Given this mandate, AFD as an organization, and each of its staff members as well, must consis...
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The AFD Carbon Footprint Tool for projects - User’s Guide and Methodology
AFD (Agence Française de Développement) aims to promote low-carbon development through the projects it finances, in line with France’s commitment to combat climate change and AFD’s strategic orientati...
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video - Vulnerabilities and crises: what role for companies? edition no. 27 of Proparco’s magazine
In its June – September 2017 issue entitled, “Vulnerabilities and crises: what role for companies?”, the Private Sector & Development review looks at the various different issues related to private se...
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Guatemala: Low-cost solar lighting for rural communities
In Guatemala, 1.6 million people live without access to electricity, especially in rural areas and continue to use candles, oil lamps and other diesel generators. The Guatemalan start-up Kingo Energy...
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