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Ghana : Our financing and support solutions for Start-Ups and SMEs
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 territorie...
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COP28: "We need to strengthen climate finance and adaptation"
With COP28 taking place in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December 2023, Arnaud Uzabiaga, Head of Proparco’s Impacts Division, explains how Agence Française de Développement's private sector arm is ramp...
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"Acting in fragile contexts": the 41st issue of Private Sector & Development magazine is available
Proparco is publishing the 41st edition of its Private Sector & Development magazine, devoted to fragile contexts. If no action is taken, fragile countries will account for 80% of the world’s poverty...
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FILIERE DECHETS
Proparco and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) are going to conduct a study on waste management and treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa, Morocco and Egypt. The objective is to identify projects...
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Sahyadri
Alongside impact investors, Proparco has invested in Sahyadri Farms, a leading Indian agricultural company. The investment will allow the company to implement concrete measures for climate change adap...
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Covid-19: how AccèsBanque Madagascar supported small businesses after the crisis
AccèsBanque Madagascar, a commercial bank created in 2006 by AccessHolding and present throughout Madagascar, has helped its customers deal with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. AccèsBanq...
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Appui UIB PME
L'Union Internationale de Banques (UIB) is one of Tunisia’s main private banks. PROPARCO is providing a financial budget for technical assistance to support UIB for the design and implementation of a...
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Kashf - Microfinance empowering women entrepreneurs in Pakistan
Enabling women to become actors of social and economic change in Pakistan is the number one objective of the Kashf Foundation, which has specialized in microfinance for more than 20 years. In 2017, Pr...
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, the ARAF fund is strengthening the climate resilience of smallholder farmers
Financed by several partners and development finance institutions – including Proparco, via AFD Group’s FISEA+ facility –, the ARAF fund targets the issues of food security and climate change. It inve...
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Digital accessibility
An accessible website is one that allows people with disabilities to access and use its content and features easily. Proparco is committed to improving the accessibility of its internet, intranet, ext...
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WIOCC 2024
Proparco, alongside IFC, has allocated financing to the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) group, one of the main connectivity providers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The objective is to finance WIOCC’s...
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Ituverava
PROPARCO is supporting the project for the Ituverava photovoltaic power plant via a EUR 90m loan (of which 40m are syndicated). It is located in the State of Bahia and will be the 2nd largest solar po...
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Al Amana
Al Amana is Morocco’s leading microfinance institution and a pioneer in the management of social performance. With this loan, Proparco is renewing its commitment to Al Amana to support its growth and...
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IEFCL - Equity
The loan allocated by Proparco will allow IEFCL to build and operate the largest fertilizer plant in Nigeria, near Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta. This site is expected to produce 1.4 million tons o...
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Armenia: generating efficient agriculture and clean energy
Initiatives by farmers, local people and businesses in Armenia to maintain and develop rural areas are growing, with the support of AFD Group. We report on two projects supported by Proparco, the Grou...
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Annapurna Finance: microfinance helping to empower Indian women
The Indian microfinance institution Annapurna Finance, specialising in social loans, has long been supported by Proparco. It serves a predominantly female population in rural areas where there is a lo...
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In Southeast Asia, GreenYellow makes full use of solar energy
GreenYellow is a French company specialising in the energy transition and an expert in decentralised solar photovoltaic production. Created in 2007 and supported by Proparco, it helps its customers re...
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SONATA 2016 2018
Sonata is an Indian microfinance institution specialized in solidarity loans. Its 740,000 clients are all women. Proparco made its first equity investment in SONATA in 2016 and subsequently made an...
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HARDAP
PROPARCO has allocated a EUR 37m guarantee to South Africa’s Standard Bank to cover the loan earmarked to finance the construction of a photovoltaic farm with an installed capacity of 37 MW. This 1st...
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Nachtigal
The Proparco and AFD Group loan is contributing to financing the construction of strategic infrastructure for Cameroon: a 420 MW run-of-river hydropower plant. The Nachtigal power plant will eventuall...
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