Publications and media
The Chiaka Sidibé Hotel School
Special report from Bamako on Mali's first hotel school : Chiaka Sidibé. A projet run by Azalaï Hotels Group, with the support of Proparco
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Strategy 2017-2020 : Grégory Clemente, CEO of Proparco
Objective 2020: double its annual commitments to EUR 2bn in order to increase the private sector’s contribution to development. The objective is to triple its impacts on sustainable development (emplo...
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PROPARCO's activity Report 2015
2015 was a red letter year for the sustainable development agenda. The Addis Ababa Conference on Financing for Development, the UN General Assembly on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the...
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Private Sector & Development #25 - The african insurance sector: building for the future
This edition of Private Sector & Development looks at the opportunities and obstacles facing insurance in Africa and presents analyses prepared by a number of sector stakeholders (insurers, researcher...
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3 questions to Vineet Rai, CEO of Aavishkaar
Founded in 2001, Aavishkaar (which means “invention” in Hindi) is India’s leading impact investment firm.
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3 questions to David Auerbach, co-founder of Sanergy
In the slum areas of Kenya’s capital, indoor flush toilets are a rarity. Most people have to make do with plastic bags and outdoor pit latrines. To remedy the situation, a company called Sanergy has b...
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Private Sector & Development #24 - Air transport, a vital challenge for Africa
Air transport in Africa still does not count for much on a global scale. However, strong GDP growth, the continent’s fast-growing urbanisation and the expansion of the middle classes – who want to tra...
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Private Sector & Development #23 - Social Business: a different way of doing business and investing
In recent years, the concept of social business has emerged as a middle road between philanthropy and the pursuit of maximum profit. This is the topic of the 23rd Private Sector & Development magazine...
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Strengthening the capabilities of clients' companies
Strengthening the capabilities of clients' companies
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Proparco Annual report 2014
2014 was an impactful year for PROPARCO, one in which we adopted a new strategy and increased our share capital by €200m. With a changing range of international fi nancing available to Southern Hemisp...
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Private Sector & Development #22 - Scaling-up private sector climate finance
This twenty-second issue of Private Sector & Development investigates the private sector’s role in financing the energy transition, exploring pathways for achieving the expansion that is so crucial fo...
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Private Sector & Development #21 - Promoting CSR in Africa: a sustainable development opportunity
The last decade has seen the CSR spread across every continent, transforming businesses. The major international organisations have produced guidelines, norms and standards to provide the private sect...
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