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Botswana

Botswana Development Corporation

Botswana Development Corporation Limited provides financial assistance to investors with commercially viable projects in Botswana. It offers debt financing, equity financing, and invoice discounting services. The company also develops and manages residential, commercial, industrial, and hotel properties; and provides property letting, lease management, rental collection, and property maintenance services. In addition, it is involved in the manufacture and supply of concrete products, including railway slippers; clay products, such as face bricks, pavers, and special shaped bricks to designers and craftspeople; and food cans that are used to package various products, such as dairy, fish, fruits, meat, and vegetables. Further, the company operates a conference and exhibition center, and lodge; provides export credit insurance, debt collection,
legal insurance, and construction bonds; and lease farm for various integrated farming ventures. Botswana Development Corporation Limited was founded in 1970 and is based in Gaborone, Botswana.
www.bdc.bw

COMESA

COMESA members

The Common Market for eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was initially established in 1981 as the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA). The COMESA Free Trade Area (FTA) came into being in 2000. COMESA assists its member states to build capacity in regards to Rules of Origin and dealing with Non-Tariff Barriers. COMESA is currently working towards becoming a common market.

COMESA members (19) are: Burundi, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

COMESA members (19) are: Burundi, Comoros, D.R. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

COMESA has several operating institutions which support and facilitate investment and trade.

The Trade and Development Bank (TDB) is an African regional development financial institution established in 1985. The Bank’s mandate is to finance and foster trade, socio-economic development and regional economic integration across its Member States. Although TDB is a COMESA institution, membership is open to Non-COMESA states, non-regional countries as well as institutional shareholders. The Bank offers a broad range of products and services, across both private and public sectors, including debt, equity and quasi-equity, plus guarantees. TDB’s investments cut across agriculture, trade, industry, infrastructure, energy and tourism, among others.

The TDB is headquartered in Bujumbura, Burundi, with regional hubs in Nairobi, Harare and Mauritius.

Established in 2005, the COMESA Business Council (CBC) is the ‘voice of the private sector’ in the
region. The CBC provides a platform for three core services, namely business support services and linkages; policy advocacy and membership development; and addressing constraints to business development.

Ethiopia

Association of Women in Business (AWiB)

AWiB provides a networking platform for its members and fans. Not only does AWiB bring prominent people to engage with the audience in a highly accessible environment, but AWiB is also committed to profiling and introducing to its audience up and coming women and women whose work and contribution to society in their respective industries has not been exposed. AWiB believes in the power of creating and expanding networks for success, moving culturally imposed notions of reservation out of the equation. By promoting the value in building relationships, AWiB espouses the idea that a vision shared is a vision realized. During networking sessions audience members are encouraged to leave their safety zones and engage in conversation with women they have not discovered yet. AWiB also affords its members an online forum platform where discussions on various topics can be continued at the comforts of their homes or offices. All it takes to start a conversation is to log-in.
www.awib.org.et

Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce (AACCSA)

Addis Chamber Training Institute offers demand-driven business trainings to members of the local business community in order to help them acquire the necessary knowledge and skills that lead to success in today's challenging business environment.

Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations/AACCSA/ has set a Trade and
Investment Promotion Department that allows it carry out Addis Chamber International Trade Fairs.
www.addischamber.com
www.ethiopianchamber.com

Ghana

The Trade Hub

Accra, Ghana is the home of USAID/West Africa’s Trade and Investment Hub (the Trade Hub) helps the region’s farmers and firms compete, attract investment, and boost trade. We do this by strengthening the competitive capacity of West Africa’s farmers and firms in high-potential regional  and global  value chains, while also  addressing transport constraints and barriers along the region’s trade corridors and borders. To expand  access to finance and investment in our target value chains, the Trade Hub facilitates relationships between businesses and financial institutions.

The Trade Hub works throughout West Africa, but especially in the member countries of the
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).
www.bdc.bw

South Africa

Industrial Development Corporation

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited (IDC) was established in 1940 by an Act of Parliament (Industrial Development Corporation Act, No. 22 of 1940) and is fully owned by the South African Government. The IDC was mandated to develop domestic industrial capacity, specifically in manufactured goods, to mitigate the disruption of trade between Europe and South Africa during the Second World War.

The IDC has contributed to the implementation of South Africa's industrial policy for more than 70 years and established, among others, the petro-chemicals and minerals beneficiation industries. The IDC has stimulated large industrial projects in these industries - acknowledged today as the cornerstones of the country's manufacturing sector - and influenced the establishment of industries in fabricated metals, agriculture and clothing and textiles.

During the 1990s, the mandate was expanded to include investment in the rest of Africa. The Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique was the first such venture. The IDC secured investors from around the globe to establish a major industrial enterprise in a country plagued by decades of civil war. The smelter illustrated the viability of large projects on a continent often shunned by investors. Currently, investments in Africa include mining, agriculture, manufacturing, tourism and telecommunications.

The IDC's funding is generated through income from loan and equity investments and exits from mature investments, as well as borrowings from commercial banks, development finance institutions (DFIs) and other lenders.

We align our priorities with government's policy direction and remain committed to developing the country's industrial capacity, as well as playing a major role in facilitating job creation through industrialization.
www.idc.co.za

Business Partners Limited

Business Partners Limited (BUSINESS/PARTNERS) is a specialist risk finance company that provides customized financial solutions, sectoral knowledge, mentorship, business premises and other value added services for formal small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa and selected African countries, namely Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.

Business Partners has developed a range of proprietary financing models that offer maximum flexibility to suit your specific needs. Along with general financing solutions, it also offers specialized industry and sector specific financing products that range from education and manufacturing to property investment and women in business funds for SMEs.
www.businesspartners.co.za

Small Enterprise Finance Agency

The Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SOC) Ltd (sefa) was established on 1st April 2012 as a result of the merger of the South African Micro Apex Fund (samaf), Khula Enterprise Finance Ltd and the small business activities of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). The agency operates as a development finance institution (DFI) and reports to the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). In line with its mandate, sefa  provides financial products and services to qualifying SMMEs and Co-operatives as defined in the National Small Business Act of 1996 and amended in 2004. This sefa accomplishes
through a range of wholesale and direct lending channels.
Sefa  has a national presence with its Head Office located in Centurion, Gauteng.
www.sefa.org.za

Swaziland

Small Enterprise Development Company (SEDCO)

SEDCO is a public enterprise under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade established in 1970 to awaken, promote and support entrepreneurial talent with a vision and prime focus to create jobs and sustainable employment within the Small, Micro and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMME’s) and thus make meaningful contribution in the larger socio-economic development of the country.

Since establishment, a nationwide demand for SEDCO’s business education, training and consultancy services has been observed from active and potential entrepreneurs. Through our services, a substantial number of our clients have received financial support from local financial institutions. This is an indication that SEDCO is aggressively taking its rightful role in facilitating and guiding entrepreneurial activities in the country’s critical economic driver, the SMME sector.
www.sedco.biz

Swaziland Industrial Development Company

Swaziland Industrial Development Company Limited (SIDC) was formed in 1987 as a joint venture between the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland and major International finance institutions (The DEG of Germany, CDC of UK, FMO of Holland, Proparco of France and IFC (World Bank). These financial institutions sold their shareholding in 2008 to Swaziland National Provident Fund (SNPF) and Intenueron Investment Trust. It is a private development company committed to supporting its customers with quality services in the financing of projects through equity, loans, finance leasing and factory buildings for lease.
www.sidc.co.sz

SIDC primary corporate objectives are:



SIDC fulfills its role by promoting and investing in financially viable projects in the sectors of:



Zimbabwe

Small and Medium Enterprises Development Company (SMEDCO)

The Zimbabwe Small and Medium Enterprises Development Company (SMEDCO) is the nation’s leading development finance institution for the promotion and development of micro, small and medium enterprises in the country. It was formed in 1983 through an Act of Parliament, chapter 24:12 and is a parastatal which falls under the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development.

Contact:
Ms. Gladys Kanyongo (CEO)
SEDCO House
170 Chinhoyi Street,
Harare, Zimbabwe
www.awib.org.et

Vakayi SME Fund

Vakayi SME Fund is a venture capital company created to invest in outstanding entrepreneurs providing essential services in Zimbabwe. The fund is managed by Vakayi Capital, whose founding partners are Zimbabweans based in Harare. The team’s experience and extensive business network generates a robust deal flow for capital deployment in the health, clean energy, housing and education sectors.

Contact:
Chaitezvi Musoni (CEO)
9 Selous Road,Ballantyne Park,
Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: (+263 )8677 117 251
Email: info@vakayi.com