Africa Project Development Facility (APDF)
Service de promotion et de développement des investissements en Afrique
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Contact Details
URL: http://www.ifc.org/
Founded
1986-04
History
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Assist African entrepreneurs to screen and, if appropriate, to formulate project ideas into business plans and to obtain local or foreign financing for their projects; provide guidance and make available to entrepreneurs consultancy, technical and managerial services in order to prepare and implement a project until it is fully operational; assist African entrepreneurs with the management, design and implementation of a management information system, human resource development and team building; help African entrepreneurs to find local or foreign project partners for equity financing and/or technical cooperation and to advise private foreign investors and financial institutions on the identification of investment opportunities and/or local partners in Africa; be a catalyst in the privatization process of public enterprises by assisting African entrepreneurs who are acquiring local parastatals and enhance the African consultancy capacity to prepare projects for entrepreneurs by the use of local professionals as investment officers and local consultants on short term assignments; provide post financing support in the form of business education, counseling, and training programs.
Activities
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Links with:
- G-XG9639 - Agence française de développement (AFD);
- U-XG5650 - Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA);
- H-XE6505 - Centre for the Development of Enterprise (CDE);
- G-XG1191 - DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft;
- U-XG0465 - Department for International Development (DFID);
- U-XG7316 - Department for International Development Cooperation;
- F-XF4208 - East African Development Bank (EADB);
- B-XB0971 - FAO;
- F-XF1393 - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD);
- G-XF8611 - Investeringsfonden for Udviklingslande (IFU);
- G-XG6944 - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad);
- G-XG1133 - Swedfund - International;
- G-XG6910 - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida);
- G-XG1194 - Teollisen Yhteistyön Rahasto (FINNFUND);
- UNDP;
- G-XG2898 - United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Links indicated by: F-XF8389 - Fonds de solidarité africain (FSA).
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Member of: H-XD9291 - African Leasing Association (Afrolease). Links with: F-XF0560 - European Business Council for Africa (EBCAM); G-XG7608 - Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO); F-XF4640 - Club des dirigeants des banques et établissements de crédit d'Afrique francophone; G-XF4992 - British International Investment. Links indicated by: D-XD4539 - Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI).
Publications
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- Social Activity → Self Employed
- Information → Expertise
- Commerce → Finance
- Commerce → Investment
- Commerce → Business Enterprises
- Commerce → Property
- Management → Management
- Technology → Technical
- Development → Development
- Solidarity → Cooperation
UN Sustainable Development Goals **
UIA Org ID
XF2082
** UN SDGs are linked to the subject classification.
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