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Proparco and Digital Africa join forces to provide a range of financing solutions for startups "Made in Africa...
As part of its 2022-2025 roadmap, Digital Africa will support 200 African startups at different stages of their growth with a wide range of offers at their disposal. Thanks to a joint and sustainable...
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2021 Results : €2.3 billion in commitments to strengthen the private sector's contribution to the Sustainable ...
In 2021, for the third consecutive year, Proparco has deployed more than €2 billion in annual commitments. Last year, Proparco's priority was to continue to support its clients to limit the impact of...
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2021 results in five key points
Despite the economic difficulties related to the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2021, PROPARCO returned to growth by increasing its commitments and strengthening their impacts. With €2.3 billion of financing a...
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Françoise LOMBARD appointed CEO of Proparco
Françoise LOMBARD was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Proparco by the Board of Directors on 25 March 2022. She joined Agence française de développement Group in 2016 as Chief Financial Officer an...
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Proparco, IFC, African and European Partners Launch Alliance to Support Private Sector Growth in Africa
To support a stronger private sector, entrepreneurship and the growth of small and medium-sized businesses across Africa, African, European, multilateral and bilateral partners today launched the Alli...
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Proparco, Biovac and Development Partners Collaborate to Support South Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing Expansio...
• Consortium of nine development partners to support Biovac’s expansion of its existing vaccine manufacturing plant capacity, and enable the production of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine and other...
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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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Expertise France joins AFD Group, allowing for a Holistic Approach to Development
The interministerial agency responsible for technical cooperation, Expertise France, joined AFD Group on January 1, 2022. With AFD subsidiary Proparco operating in the private sector, the Group now pr...
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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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AFD 80th anniversary: Making sustainable development investment more sustainable and more pertinent – to more ...
How did it all begin? To mark AFD’s 80th anniversary – which we'll celebrate in December 2021 – François Pacquement, History and Strategic Thinking Officer at AFD, takes a look back at the Group’s his...
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The tie-up between Proparco and Digital Africa will strengthen the Choose Africa initiative in supporting earl...
To meet the needs of entrepreneurs, particularly at the start of their ventures, the Choose Africa initiative will now offer African startups financing and assistance tailored to early-stage developme...
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Launching a New Global Industry Body that Convenes the Entire Spectrum of Investors to Promote Gender Lens Inv...
Some of the largest household names in the global investment industry today announced that they would be backing a new industry body set up to promote investment in women.
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Proparco 2020 Sustainable Development Report: A focus on Proparco’s project monitoring, its impact on gender ...
How does Proparco monitor the real impact of its projects? What impact do they have on female employment, and what measurement indicators has Proparco adopted? What does its extra-financial offer “PRO...
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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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Global gender finance initiative sets ambitious new $15 billion fundraising goal after securing more than doub...
Over 200 businesses in the developing world received investment over the last three years.
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The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) joins the Finance in Common Initiative
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) enters the Finance in Common System (FiCS) by signing the Joint Declaration of all Public Development Banks in the World. This new endorsement of the global...
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AFD Group and EBRD to strengthen cooperation
Addressing key development challenges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Groupe Agence Française de Développement (AFD), throu...
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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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Save the date: on 8 June, PROPARCO invites you to its digital broadcast “Choose Africa On Air”
The “Choose Africa On Air” digital broadcast on 8 June will bring together economic players, entrepreneurs, experts and financial partners to share their experiences and exchange ideas live. You wi...
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GICAM, Proparco and AFD join forces to draft Central Africa's first code of good governance for companies
The signing of a partnership between GICAM and AFD Group will enable the work undertaken since January 2020 to continue within the framework of the Good Corporate Governance Initiative. The Code of Go...
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