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GROW Project is a government of Uganda five-years project financed by International Development Agency (IDA) under a grant financing arrangement of USD 217million. The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase access to entrepreneurial services that enable female entrepreneurs to grow their enterprises in targeted locations, including refugees host districts.

Grow Project is a government of Uganda five years project financed by the international development agency (IDA) under a grant financing arrangement of USD 217 million. The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to increase access to entrepreneurial services that enable female entrepreneurs to grow their enterprises in target locations, including refugee host districts.

Market facilitation (M4P) is an approach to promote systemic change—change that goes beyond individual players and that is relevant to the wider environment, affecting many. Market systems development requires that organisations play a facilitating role. Standing outside of the market system, facilitators work with different players within the system, to make it work more effectively. Their essential role is active and catalytic, to enable others to do rather than do themselves—stimulating changes in a market system without becoming part of it.

By FSD Africa.

The African continent presents a massive investment opportunity for investors to advance climate solutions in the coming decade, however, a set of barriers to finance have stifled requisite investment to date. In this new report, in collaboration with Climate Finance Innovation for Africa and Climate Policy Initiative, we provide a framework for how innovation in financing structures can leverage strategic deployment of public capital to ‘crowd-in’ private investment at levels not yet seen.

By FSD Africa

This project:

Identifies the skills gap, training needs and existing cross-industry skill development initiatives among financial service providers in East Africa,

Identifies existing cross-industry skills development initiatives in International markets, and,

Develops potential solutions for cross-industry skills development for the East African financial service sector.

A quick reference guide and financing decision trees for MSMEs, developed by the International Trade Centre under the East African Community MARKUP project, funded by the European Union.

3.1: Community financing providers of low-value financing.

3.2: Short-term equipment, pre-shipment, sales order or working capital financing.

3.3: Term loans through banks and non-bank financing providers.

3.4: Bank and non-bank short-term supply chain financing options.

3.5: Key enterprise loan regulatory considerations for banks.

3.6: What is “Collateral” and what are its implications for your business?

3.7: Asset valuation: enterprise and lender perspective.

3.8: What are “Covenants” and how do they affect your business?

4.1: Business communications and visibility.

4.2: Loan performance and reporting communication norms.

4.3: References and customer feedback.

5.1: What to optimize before drafting your business plan.

5.2: Risk assessments: supply chain vulnerabilities, sustainability and resilience.

5.3: Resilience and business continuity plans and measures.

5.4: Product and service authenticity, traceability, quality & labeling compliance.

5.5: Drafting a realistic business plan.

5.6: Market, business growth and revenue projections with references.

5.7: Typical errors and practices that result in application rejections.

5.8: Digitisation and the implications for financing options.

All financing providers, financing transactions operators and investors are required to collect at a minimum the following set of basic information on applicants for, or beneficiaries of, financing of more than Euro/USD 2,500 in any one year.

COVID workplace measures and financing.

Step 1: Establish what the money is needed for and how much you really need.

Step 2: Find out what business and personal information is required.

Step 3: Select two or three providers that could meet your needs.

List of Abbreviations

6.1: What to prepare before contacting BDS service providers.

6.2: Types of business development services and business support organizations.

Find out which online payment solution is suitable for your business depending on your location and sales channel.

Digital lending is expanding rapidly across markets with significant mobile money or mobile banking penetration. And as with all financial services, access and utilization patterns differ by gender. Some digital lending may have the potential to overcome gender biases. For example, borrowers can request a loan from anywhere, avoiding some transaction costs that are particularly burdensome for women. It can standardize processes to avoid the human biases of loan officers. Lenders can work around gender biases stemming from the use of titled land as collateral by assessing creditworthiness on alternative data sources such as cash flows.

Trade Finance is the financing of goods or services in a trade or transaction, from a supplier through to the end buyer. It
accounts for 3% of global trade, worth some $3tn annually.