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To support Africa’s transition, PROPARCO invests in the private sector in all business sectors. Its financing specifically targets the development of essential infrastructure for opening up territories, economic activity and improving living conditions for people (conventional and renewable energies, roads, ports, rail networks, airports…).

Choose Africa is the French initiative to support African start-ups, VSEs and SMEs implemented by Proparco and AFD. In Ghana, this support has notably enabled New Crystal Hospital and Sinel Specialist Hospital to develop their activities. In July 2021, Proparco signed a new partnership with Ecobank to enable the pan-African bank to offer up to fifty million Ghanaian Cedis (7.4 million euros) in term loans to micro, small and medium enterprises affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

DTRT Apparel is a Ghanaian apparel company that now employs nearly 2,500 people. It received support from the Verod Capital fund, which provided funds and expertise to accompany the company's development and increase its impact. Proparco supports thousands of companies in Africa directly or through investment funds like Verod Capital.

Located in Akuse, in the Eastern Region of Ghana, Legacy Girls’ College provides quality and affordable education to 400 girl students. From 2015, the school is looking to form a new generation of Ghanaian women with core values like Integrity, Responsibility and Excellence. To finance its expansion, Legacy Girls’ College is supported by Oasis African Fund, in which the FISEA fund, managed by Proparco, has invested.