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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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Clime Capital launches SEACEF II, an innovative fund to boost low-carbon transition in Southeast Asia
Clime Capital has just closed its second fund, bringing together philanthropic, public and private capital. Its aim is to invest at a very early stage in businesses that contribute to accelerating the...
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AFD Group further reinforces its support for South Africa’s low carbon ambition
AFD Group and FirstRand Limited’s wholly owned subsidiary FirstRand Bank (‘the bank”) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering the provision of a $100 million loan to help the South African...
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France and United States Partnership Attracts Private Capital to the DRC
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) formed a strategic partnership to develop key economic value chains and improve the...
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Joliba Capital and LBO France announce the first close of Joliba Capital Fund I
The fund will target investment opportunities across Francophone countries in Western and Central Africa to develop small and mid-cap regional champions seeking growth capital and operating expertise.
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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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Helping the pharmaceutical industry meet health challenges in Africa
With 13% of the world’s population and 24% of the global burden of disease – but 6% of health expenditure and only 3% of the world’s pharmaceutical output, Africa faces the challenge of access to qual...
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Choose Africa: 3 billion euros committed by AFD Group to support 26,000 start-ups and MSMEs
Four years after the Ouagadougou speech in which French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed France's commitment to supporting the entrepreneurship revolution in Africa, AFD Group has exceeded the ini...
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ICM complaint #21-001 - Preliminary Review Report
On 25 February 2021, the Complaints Offices of FMO, DEG and Proparco (collectively, “the DFIs”) received a complaint containing allegations of harm caused by the New Liberty Gold Mine (“Complaint”), a...
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Embracing the challenges of sustainable industrial development
The new issue of the magazine Private sector and Development focuses on the challenges of sustainable industrial development . While industry is a source of much controversy, it is also frequently tou...
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Orange becomes the strategic partner of the French Development Agency (AFD) Group for digital technology
The Orange Group and the French Development Agency (AFD) have announced the signing of a framework partnership agreement making Orange the leading player in digital technology at VivaTech 2025. This g...
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Equity investment to bring to scale: An interview with two financed SMEs
As we have repeated on a number of occasions in this issue – and the different articles have borne this out – access to funding is one of the key challenges and obstacles to the development of SMEs in...
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Financing and supporting the transition to clean public transporation in Colombia
The challenge facing Colombia in its transition to clean energy (including electric) public transportation is largely structural: transportation networks are managed independently by the cities, resul...
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Private Sector & Development #33 - Harnessing the private sector to reduce gender inequality
Despite increased awareness since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and the progress made, women worldwide still face a multitude of inequalities. The 33rd Private Sector & Development focuses o...
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AFD Group and the European Commission collaborate to support public and private investments in Africa
On the occasion of the 7th edition of the EU-Africa Business Forum (EABF) and on the sidelines of the EU-AU Summit, the Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement, Rémy Rioux, signed...
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Choose Africa Resilience
This brochure presents Choose Africa Resilience programme to support the economic recovery of African businesses. Through the Choose Africa initiative launched in 2019, Agence Française de&nb...
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How Qualagric Asbl is supporting the development of the cassava sector in DRC
In 2023, Proparco provided Qualagric Asbl, a leading Congolese agri-operator, with a funding and technical assistance of EUR 400,000 to support the development of the cassava value chain in Democratic...
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Report - Access to Finance for the Film Industry in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica
Ce rapport, intitulé "Access to Finance for the Film Industry in the Dominican Republic and Jamaica", se concentre sur l'accès au financement pour l'industrie du film en République dominicaine et en J...
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Replay webinar: "Success Stories in the Creative Industries in Africa and Other Emerging Markets"
This webinar explored how innovative financing mechanisms, such as the CREA Fund—implemented by Proparco and supported by the European Union through the CreatiFI initiative—are empowering the growth o...
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How the Calgro M3 group is targeting South Africa's least well-off people
Calgro M3 is a group specialising in building affordable housing in South Africa. It is also the country’s first private developer to design and build “integrated real estate projects” comprising resi...
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