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Special issue - Public development banks tackling global challenges
This special issue, published in collaboration with the EDFI association on the occasion of the first Finance in common world summit of November 2020, aims to highlight the increasingly important role...
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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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AFD Group invests $10 million in African Rivers Fund III to support SMEs in the DRC, Uganda and Angola
After having already invested USD 5 million in the African Rivers Fund (ARF) in 2016, AFD Group renews its support to the XSML management team by investing USD 10 million in its third fund, African Ri...
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Embracing the Challenges of Sustainable Industrial Development : Latest issue of Private Sector & Development
The industrial sector is often said to be essential to economic development, but it is also a source of much controversy (environmental impact, labor law compliance, creation of decent jobs, etc.). Th...
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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 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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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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Voices for Change – Jeremy Awori, Ecobank
In this new episode of Voices for Change, Jeremy Awori, CEO of Ecobank, explains how Ecobank acts as a bridge between international investors and opportunities in Africa, building on sustainable partn...
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How the Respublica group is improving access to affordable student accomodation in south Africa
With almost 10,500 beds spread over 9 campuses, Respublica group is one of South Africa’s leading student accommodation providers. Its residences are renowned for the quality of their buildings, their...
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Voices for Change - Grégoire de Padirac, Digital Africa
In this episode of Voices for Change, Grégoire de Padirac, CEO of Digital Africa, reflects on Digital Africa’s commitment to supporting African innovation and shares a strong belief: the solutions to...
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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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Preserving biodiversity, the private sector in action
The current epidemic reminds us of the strong correlation between the multiplication of epidemics and the biodiversity crisis. This crisis is, along with the fight against climate change, the environm...
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Enda, a driver for the economic inclusion of Tunisian women
Enda has been the leading microfinance institution in Tunisia and the Arab world since 1995, by demonstrating that microcredit is a powerful driver for poverty reduction and economic development. Toda...
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G7 DFI and multilateral partners to invest over $80 billion into African businesses over the next five years
The G7 DFIs, the IFC, the private sector arm of the African Development Bank, EBRD and the European Investment Bank today announced that they were committed to investing $80 billion in the private sec...
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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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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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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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