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SMEs
SMEs
Supporting growing SMEs
AFD Group partners with a wide range of local public and private financial intermediaries (commercial banks, microfinance institutions and non-bank institutions, such as leasing, factoring and insurance companies) to expand the range of products and services tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises.
PROPARCO and the FISEA facility also finance SMEs with equity and quasi-equity, either via direct investments in companies or via private equity funds. By investing in these companies, we support SMEs with strong development impacts and provide the capital required for the long-term growth of companies.
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Key figures
EUR 1.5bn for microenterprises/SMEs
in partnership with financial institutionsEUR 1bn of equity
committed to invest in SMEs by 2022See and/or download documents
Our financing solutions
PRIVATE EQUITY
Via partner investment funds
- AFD Group, via PROPARCO and FISEA, invests in private equity funds for SMEs alongside other investors, for an average amount of €10 million. These funds subsequently invest in growing SMEs.
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If you are an entrepreneur looking for local investors, you can contact our partner funds directly.
Growth Capital
Direct investments by PROPARCO or via the FISEA facility
- PROPARCO invests in mature growth companies, with a turnover of over €10 million.
- PROPARCO invests on behalf of the FISEA facility in MSMEs with major impact objectives and different financial profiles (maximum tickets of €7.5 million).
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You are a growing SME and want to request an investment by PROPARCO?
Intermediated loans
Via local financial institutions- AFD Group allocates long-term loans to local financial institutions specialized in SME lending (credit lines earmarked for SMEs).
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If you are looking for a loan or micro-loan to start or develop your activity, you can get information from AFD Group’s financial intermediaries in your country.
Our support and advisory solutions
In addition to its financial tools, PROPARCO deploys a range of technical assistance (TA) services on its own account or on behalf of FISEA to help its client SMEs improve and structure their governance and internal management, and improve their environmental and social practices via advisory, training and capacity building activities.
Our emblematic projects
Explore the map to discover some of the investment funds and financial institutions that AFD Group supports in Africa.
Our local partners
To find out investment funds and financial institutions (banks, leasing companies, microfinance institutions, etc.) close to you, please select your country.
wdt_ID Name of partner Partner type Location what financing/services are available ? Eligible companies Contact 1 Access Bank Ghana Bank Ghana Financial products and services MSMEs https://www.ghana.accessbankplc.com/ 2 Access Bank Nigeria Bank Nigeria Financial products and services MSMEs https://www.accessbankplc.com/ 3 Accion Quona Inclusion Fund Venture capital Fund Egypte, Kenya, Nigeria, Afrique du Nord Financial services Fintech startups and MSMEs https://quona.com/ 4 ACEP Cameroon Microfinance Cameroon Financial products and services MSMEs/microfinance http://acep-cameroun.org/ 5 ACEP Niger Microfinance Niger Financial products and services MSMEs/microfinance http://www.ietp.com/fr/entreprises/acep-niger 6 ACTIVA Cameroon Bank Cameroon Financial products and services MSMEs https://activa-cameroun.com/index.php/fr/ 7 Adenia Capital IV Private Equity Funds Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Guinea, Mali Growth Capital 10 - €30M MSMEs http://www.adenia.com/funds-and-investment 8 ADP III Private Equity Funds Algeria Botswana Burkina Faso Ivory Coast Ghana Kenya Morocco Mauritania Niger Nigeria Mozambique Namibia Uganda Tanzania Senegal Egypt Tunisia Multi-country Africa Growth Capital 20 - €100M MSMEs https://amethis.com 10 Advans Cameroon Bank Cameroon Financial products and services MSMEs https://www.advanscameroun.com/ 11 Advans Côte d'Ivoire Microfinance Côte d'Ivoire Financial products and services MSMEs/microfinance https://www.advanscotedivoire.com/