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Development finance institutions in DRC to increase their collaboration on the ground
Fifteen Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) met and vowed to work closely together to support the country’s private sector.
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Africa Forward Inspire & Connect | Business Forum | May 2026
More than 2,000 African and European business leaders, investors and public decision-makers will gather in Nairobi on May 11, 2026, for the Africa Forward Inspire & Connect business forum.
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The ARIA initiative: enabling DFIs to extend their vital role to Africa’s frontier markets
Development finance across Africa is unevenly distributed, with 25 of its smallest economies receiving only 4% of investments since 2010. Yet, the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator initiative (...
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Getting the mining sector to work for Africa: the role of DFIs
The role played by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in the rapid development of Africa 's mining sector has seen a slight downturn. This can be explained by the strong presence of private inves...
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The key role of private players in providing access to affordable housing in South Africa
South Africa’s private sector participates in real estate projects that provide low-cost, sustainable housing for the poorest sections of the population and for students. These building programmes red...
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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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Ventures Platform Secures $64M First Close for Pan-African Fund II to Power Africa’s Next Tech Wave, with supp...
Ventures Platform, Africa’s leading seed-stage fund, has announced the $64 million first close of its second fund, VP Pan-African fund II, aimed at deepening seed investments, catalysing Series A roun...
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Pioneer role of DFIs in sub-Saharan Africa
Growth in emerging markets is currently leading the financial development institutions (FDIs) to re-focus their efforts on low-income countries – bringing sub-Saharan Africa to the fore once again. FD...
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Good governance: accelerating growth and sustainable development
Good governance principles and a management infrastructure are vital to reflection on sustainable development requirements and to ensuring they are properly applied. It is the very essence of a partic...
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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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Overview of new solutions to support small business
In Africa, SMEs account for 90% of private companies and provide jobs for 70% of the rural population. They play a key role in job creation and in the continent’s economic development, however, when...
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The private sector and pharmaceutical industry in Africa
Providing access to quality medicines still poses a number of challenges in Africa. Distribution channels are often fragmented, with a large number of intermediaries or parallel channels, which often...
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At the New Africa-France Summit, a design thinking session paves the way for the creation of a community of en...
During the New Africa-France summit, which was held on 8 October in Montpellier, a design thinking and co-construction session took place on 5 and 6 October in Paris gathering some 40 African and Fren...
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(Français) Hôtellerie en Afrique subsaharienne : quels impacts sur le développement durable ?
Il semble essentiel d’accompagner le secteur hôtelier en Afrique subsaharienne au regard de son attractivité. Ce secteur particulièrement dynamique en Afrique présente de nombreux impacts en matière d...
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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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Digitisation in Africa: Channelling Funding to SMEs
Could innovation emerge from near destruction? Would the digitisation that led to the global financial crisis preclude SMEs from obtaining the finance they needed to continue playing the crucial role...
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Developing and investing in frontier markets to achieve the SDGs
How FMO is working (providing technical assistance) and investing in frontier markets to develop opportunities into financeable projects.
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USD 200+ MILLION CAPITAL INCREASE FOR TCX
Within the framework of the Finance In Common Summit, several development finance institutions and the European Commission join forces to protect households and enterprises in the poorest countries ag...
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“Investment in agriculture as a key poverty reduction lever”
The World Bank’s World development report was first published in 2008. It was co-written by Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet among others and it highlighted agriculture as “an essential developm...
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From required scale to scaling up
Jean-Michel Severino, Chairman of Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), believes that the priority remains investing in support of the formal African enterprise sector, which is best placed to resolve th...
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