Intra-ACP PSD Programmes: activities by OACPS countries
As part of its mandate, Business ACP is tasked with monitoring all the intra-ACP Private Sector Development programmes financed under the 11th EDF.
To complement the Annual Monitoring report, country-specific factsheets have been developed to provide an overview of activities carried out by each programme and facility for the benefit of each OACPS member at national and regional levels.
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Read the 2022-2023 Monitoring Report
Lire le Rapport 2022-2023 de Monitoring
Lire le Rapport 2021 de Monitoring
Fit For Market Plus
FFM+ support is tailored to facilitate the transition of ACP horticulture towards more sustainable food systems, addressing the priority areas identified in the Farm to Fork strategy of the European Green Deal.
FFM+ has been designed and will be set up in the continuity of FFM programmes and the results of the COLEACP COVID action plan set up from March 2020. This 5-year, €25 million programme is financed by the European Union and the OACPS.
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ACP Business-friendly
The objective of ACP Business-friendly is to support business-friendly and inclusive national and regional policies and to strengthen productive capacities and value chains in ACP countries. It is designed to achieve two key outcomes of:
- Adopting and implementing business-friendly, inclusive and responsible national policies and legal frameworks
- Strengthening productive, processing, promoting and marketing capabilities and value chains.
FO4ACP (FARMERS’ ORGANIZATIONS FOR AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN and THE PACIFIC)
The overall objective of the programme is to increase income and to improve livelihood, food and nutrition security and safety of organised smallholder and family farmers in ACP countries.
OACPS-EU DEVELOPMENT MINERALS
The second phase of the ACP-EU Development Minerals Programme helps Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Enterprises (ASMEs) engaged in Development Minerals value chains to improve livelihoods, generate higher employment and incomes. In particular, the programme aims to increase economic opportunities for women participating in ASMEs throughout the Development Minerals value chains.
Discover more information about The Development Minerals Program here.
ICR Facility (Investment Climate Reform Facility)
The ICR Facility focuses on supporting ACP partner countries, i.e. private and public stakeholders and regional institutions, to improve their investment climate and business environment by facilitating public-private dialogue, among other actions.
Discover more information about ICR Facility here.
Boost Africa
Boost Africa offers blended finance and focuses on supporting entrepreneurially-driven, early stage, and start-up SMEs on the African continent. Boost Africa targets innovative investments in any sector, with special focus on those that have a high potential for economic impact.
Discover more information about Boost Africa here.
EURIZ guarantee
EURIZ guarantee helps to increase credit accessibility for MSMEs, by engaging in cooperation initiatives with a wide variety of financial institutions. EURIZ covers agricultural and agri-business, health, education, digital, and microfinancing companies owned by women or young people, who are facing increased difficulties in accessing finance.
ABC Fund
The ABC Fund is a blended-finance impact fund, which provides catalytic financing to underserved yet profitable segments of agribusiness value chains in developing countries. The ABC Fund deploys loans and equity investments in farmer organisations, rural SMEs, and financial institutions.
Discover more information about ABC Fund here or via this YouTube video.
AgriFI
AgriFI, the EU Agriculture Financing Initiative, is an impact investment facility funded by the European Union, with a mandate to unlock, accelerate and leverage investments with a value chain approach in developing countries, focusing on smallholder’s inclusiveness and/or agri-business medium, small and micro enterprises (MSME).
Discover more information about: https://www.agrifi.eu/
IYBA WE4A: Investing in Young Business in Africa Women Entrepreneuship for Africa
IYBA WE4A aims at increasing the economic empowerment and financial inclusion of women entrepreneurs and create more decent jobs in African economies. The programmes offers entrepreneurship training, investment-readiness support and fitting fininancing products to African women entrepreneurs, while strengthening the offer of effective technical and financial services by local and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Digital Finance for Resilience in the ACP Countries
The programme aims at deploying digital finance solutions at the scale and speed necessary to deepen financial inclusion, and accelerate economic recovery from COVID-19, in order to make economies and societies more resilient to external shocks.
Supporting Informal Enterprises Transition towards Sustainable Growth and Formalization in the ACP Countries
The programme aims to unlock the potential of informal economy for inclusive growth with interventions at macro, meso and micro levels. At the macro level, it will develop and support implementation of favorable regulatory conditions and relevant incentives for businesses to formalize. At the meso level, support the establishment of a collective action platform in a specific informal economy sub-sector in the target countries.
Business Support Facility For Resilient Agricultural Value Chains
The programme aims to develop and enhance the capacities of actors along ACP agriculture value chains to attract finance and investment, in particular towards low-emissions and climate resilient practices and value chains.
CARIBEquity
The main objective of this Program is to consolidate a Caribbean investment ecosystem for inclusive private sector innovation, enabling early stage and growth-oriented Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to innovate, thrive and create jobs.
SME TRADE FINANCE FACILITY
The SME Trade Finance Facility (STFF) is a blended finance initiative to help address the significant SME trade finance gap in LDCs and in particular, African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. STFF aims to strengthen financial ecosystems and the investment climate for im/export-oriented SMEs in selected Least Developed Countries (LDCs) countries.