INVEST IN AFRICA
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Who is our customer
Invest in Africa (IIA) was launched as a not-for-profit company to unite businesses across sectors to help them deliver more sustainable investment into Africa and local SMEs. IIA creates innovative programs to support trade and investment into local economies and partnerships with local SMEs giving them greater access to skills, markets and finance. The beneficiaries of this project in this instance are Ghanaian SMEs, many of which are clients of FMO’s clients in the country, including Fidelity Bank and Ecobank.
What is our funding objective?
To introduce a Business Skills Excellence Program (BSEP) in Ghana. To achieve this IIA will link SMEs on the programme with global consultants to embed the right strategies to make them locally, regionally and internationally competitive. To do so, IIA is has partnered with EY to provide expert consultants with SME advisory experience to develop bespoke systems and structures to support SME management teams as they grow their business.
Why do we fund this investment?
This project is aligned with FMO’s aim to stimulate economic development by ensuring the SMEs have the capital and opportunity needed to grow. It is complementary in so far is it enables the SMEs to develop their ability to ensure growth.
- Website customer/investment
- http://www.investinafrica.com
- Region
- Africa
- Country
- Ghana
- Sector
- Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Services
- Effective date
- 5/25/2016
- End date
- 7/10/2018
- Total FMO financing
- EUR 0.17 MLN
- Funding
- MASSIF