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Jul 31, 2019
Creating Markets in Burkina Faso: Country Private Sector Diagnostics
The Burkina Faso Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) investigates whether opportunities exist for the private sector to contribute more substantially to Burkina Faso’s economic development. The CPSD concludes that significant opportunities for the private sector to contribute to Burkina Faso’s development do indeed exist but should be carefully harnessed in a synergetic fashion.
English - 88 pages | French - 94 pages | 2019 IFC
Jul 17, 2019
Creating Markets in Kenya: Country Private Sector Diagnostics
As Kenya looks forward to 2030, it aspires to industrialize into a middle-income country that provides equal opportunities for all. But to sustain the growth it needs to achieve these aspirations, Kenya must eliminate the main barriers to expanding its private sector. The Kenya Country Private Sector Diagnostic looks at the opportunities and constraints to attracting private investment in key enabling and priority sectors and provides specific recommendations to unlocking their potential.
English | 134 pages | 2019 IFC
Jun 26, 2019
Creating Markets in Rwanda: Country Private Sector Diagnostic
The Rwanda Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) examines how private sector growth can support the country’s development goals. While Rwanda has advanced along its development path, there is an urgent need to create productive jobs to drive inclusive economic transformation.
English | 127 pages | 2019 IFC
May 20, 2019
Creating Markets in Ethiopia: Country Private Sector Diagnostic
This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) examines and identifies opportunities for growth of the private sector in Ethiopia. It suggests a broadening strategy to exploit opportunities in a range of traditional and non-traditional sectors, such as tourism and ICT to meet the jobs challenge, while achieving macroeconomic stability.
English | 87 pages | 2019 IFC
May 11, 2019
Private Sector & Refugees—Pathways to Scale
A new IFC study—Private Sector & Refugees: Pathways to Scale—produced in partnership with The Bridgespan Group, takes an unprecedented look at over 170 initiatives in both Africa and the Middle East to understand the nature of, and derive lessons from, private sector engagement with refugees and host communities.
English | 80 pages | 2019 IFC
Mar 1, 2019
Understanding DFIs’ Private Sector Engagement in African Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Review of Development Finnace Institutions' Activities in Cote d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sudan
Feb 26, 2019
Guide de Bonnes Pratiques de traçabilitè
IFC a développé un guide pour améliorer l'accès au marché des PME du secteur de la transformation des noix de cajou en Côte d’Ivoire.
Feb 20, 2019
The Power Of Partnerships In Fragile And Conflict Affected Areas
To nurture opportunities in fragile areas, and deliver maximum impact, strong partnerships must be the way forward.
Feb 8, 2019
Generating Private Investment in Fragile and Conflicted-Affected Areas
The private sector can help break the cycle of conflict, fragility, and poverty that persists in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS). This study draws on academic research and IFC’s experience with the private sector in FCS to derive lessons on how to engage with the private sector to foster growth, job creation, and stability.
English | 44 Pages | 2019 IFC
Jan 25, 2019
Programme IFC sur le Climat d'Investissement OHADA 2007 2017
Evaluation de I'Impact des Reformes OHADA
Jan 25, 2019
IFC's OHADA Investment Climate Program (2007 - 2017)
Uniform Acts on Commercial Company Secured Transactions and Insolvency
Jan 18, 2019
The Unseen Sector: A Report on the MSME Opportunity in South Africa
Building small businesses that contribute to the economy and create jobs is one of South Africa’s biggest development opportunities. Small enterprises employ between 50 and 60 percent of South Africa’s work force and contribute around 34 percent of GDP. However, the small business sector has been relatively stagnant over the last decade, and only 14% of the country’s small businesses are formalized, capping their job creation and economic contribution potential. “The Unseen Sector” is a joint report between the World Bank and International Finance Corporation providing an in-depth assessment of the micro, small and medium enterprise landscape in South Africa and opportunities to support the sector’s growth. The report measures the small business sector size and illustrates key barriers small businesses face in terms of access to finance, access to skills and access to markets in South Africa.
English | 124 pages | 2019 IFC
Jan 17, 2019
Crops Receipts—A New Financing Instrument For Africa
Crops Receipts—A New Financing Instrument For Africa
English | 84 pages | 2019 | IFC/FAO
Dec 20, 2018
Request for Expression of Interest
IFC is issuing this request for expressions of interest to identify an implenting partner for the KKCF in Turkana County, Kenya.
Dec 12, 2018
Goodlife Pharmacy
Goodlife Pharmacy offers safe, high-quality medicine to consumers in Kenya and Uganda, including lower-income 'emerging consumers'. Ultimately, Goodlife aims to become a health hub—a one-stop-shop to meet basic primary health care needs through pharmaceuticals and health care services. In the four years since it was founded in 2014, Goodlife has become East Africa’s largest pharmacy chain.
Nov 29, 2018
Digital Skills in Sub-Saharan Africa
Spotlight on Ghana
English | 170 pages | 2019 IFC
Nov 27, 2018
IFC SME Ventures: Investing in Private Equity in Sub-Saharan African Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
This report, researched in partnership with CrossBoundary LLC, highlights the critical success factors when investing in fragile states, as well as existing innovations being developed by current investors. While the challenges of investing in FCS are well known, the most effective approaches and factors required for success are still being explored.
English | 68 pages | 2018 IFC
Sep 27, 2018
HANDBOOK: Digital Financial Services for Agriculture
This handbook offers financial services providers an understanding of smallholder farmers and agricultural value chains, and practical guidance on how to develop and launch sustainable financial services for the agricultural sector. It surveys the current landscape in terms of existing DFS offerings in the agricultural sector, to share actual market experience and lessons learned from the pioneers in the market. Although financial inclusion has expanded dramatically in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past ten years due to the rapid evolution of mobile money and agent banking, access to formal financial services remains limited in rural areas and in the agricultural sector. Agriculture contributes to about 18 percent of GDP across Sub-Saharan Africa, but only an estimated 1 percent of bank lending in the region is allocated to the agricultural sector.
English | 236 pages | 2018 IFC
Jun 29, 2018
Unlocking Private Investment
Côte d’Ivoire pledged to achieve 42 percent of renewable-energy generation by 2030 under the Paris Agreement to combat climate change. Achieving this target could create a $9 billion investment opportunity by 2030, but the key question is how to unlock private financing. Working with the Ivorian government, IFC developed a roadmap that highlights promising pathways toward attracting private sector investment while focusing on the government’s goals.
May 15, 2018
DIGITAL ACCESS: The Future of Financial Inclusion in Africa
The launch and growth of digital financial services in Africa has led to an unprecedented increase in the number of people enjoying access to formal financial services. The continent is now home to more digital financial services deployments than any other region in the world, with almost half of the nearly 700 million individual users worldwide. Mobile money solutions and agent banking now offer affordable, instant, and reliable transactions, savings, credit, and even insurance opportunities in rural villages and urban neighborhoods where no bank had ever established a branch.
English | 97 pages | 2018 IFC
May 14, 2018
What We Learned about Corporate Governance and Code Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The report presents 10 lessons learned attained over more than two decades of experience in code development in South Africa and other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Apr 27, 2018
Kakuma as a Marketplace
A consumer and market study of a refugee camp and town in northwest Kenya (Special Conference Edition)
English | 88 pages | 2018 IFC
Apr 10, 2018
Shaping The Future Of Africa French
The report, entitled Shaping the Future of Africa: Markets and Opportunities for Private Investors, notes that growth recovered from a two-decade low of 1.3 percent in 2016 to an estimated 2.4 percent in 2017, and is projected to improve further to 3.6 percent in 2020.
Mar 26, 2018
CASE STUDY: ADvTECH—A New Dawn for Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa
How the Largest Education Group is Increasing Access to Quality, Affordable Higher Education
Mar 23, 2018
Shaping The Future Of Africa
The end of the commodity super cycle in 2014 hit Sub-Saharan economies hard, sending economic growth to a two decade low by 2016 as prices of crude oil, commodities, and other African exports fell dramatically. In addition, global financial factors reduced the interest of international investors in the region.
