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List of Abbreviations

All financing providers, financing transactions operators and investors are required to collect at a minimum the following set of basic information on applicants for, or beneficiaries of, financing of more than Euro/USD 2,500 in any one year:

Trade Finance is the financing of goods or services in a trade or transaction, from a supplier through to the end buyer. It accounts for 3% of global trade, worth some $3tn annually.

By FSD Africa

This project:

Identifies the skills gap, training needs and existing cross-industry skill development initiatives among financial service providers in East Africa;

Identifies existing cross-industry skills development initiatives in International markets;

Develops potential solutions for cross-industry skills development for East Africa financial service sector.

By FSD Africa

The African continent presents a massive investment opportunity for investors to advance climate solutions in the coming decade, however, a set of barriers to finance have stifled requisite investment to date. In this new report, in collaboration with Climate Finance Innovation for Africa and Climate Policy Initiative, we provide a framework for how innovation in financing structures can leverage strategic deployment of public capital to ‘crowd-in’ private investment at levels not yet seen.

Market facilitation (M4P) is an approach to promote systemic change—change that goes beyond individual players and that is relevant to the wider environment, affecting many. Market systems development requires that organisations play a facilitating role. Standing outside of the market system, facilitators work with different players within the system, to make it work more effectively. Their essential role is active and catalytic, to enable others to do rather than do themselves—stimulating changes in a market system without becoming part of it.

In 2023, with FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi) support, Persistent Energy Capital kicked off fundraising for its US$100 million Africa Climate Venture Builder Fund. The fund will accelerate and amplify access to equity and venture-building support for visionary and green innovators across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) is a Rwandan not-for-profit organisation established in March 2010. AFR’s strategic focus is stimulating financial sector development by partnering with financial institutions and other stakeholders to increase access to and use of financial services. AFR identifies and addresses constraints that prevent the financial market from reaching Rwanda’s low-income population and promotes innovations and learning that result in sustainable change in the financial sector.

The International Trade Centre’s E-Learning and SME Trade Academy platforms offer practical, vocational training online for SMEs and trade advisors in the public and private sectors in many different languages

Find out which online payment solution is suitable for your business depending on your location and sales channel

Inuka Enterprise Program aims to empower micro enterprises to formalise, small enterprises to professionalise their management and medium enterprises to optimise operations and increase their economic productivity. This initiative is proudly sponsored by the Kenya Bankers Association with the objective of enhancing MSMEs ability to access finance from banks

We have been front and centre in driving fact-based policy advocacy towards the formation of industrial policies to strengthen and support the country’s economic development. Through fact-based advocacy, KAM partners with Government and its associated agencies to ensure a dynamic and flourishing manufacturing sector in Kenya, to realize a double-digit contribution to GDP.

The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry is registered as a not-for-profit private company limited by guarantee under the Companies Act Chapter 486 of the laws of Kenya.

PSFU has a Business Hub which is a strategic business unit within the organization birthed from strategic partnerships that it has entered into around the world and in Kenya with the sole purpose of enhancing trade and investments both locally and internationally.

The main aim of this report is to try and give insights into the micro small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector by profiling adults that are business owners or self-employed and examining their challenges in business as well as their interaction with the financial sector. While this will not represent the entire MSME sector, it will give insights and guidance to MSME engaged in by a significant proportion of the adult populace.

This site provides you with information on the Total Cost of Credit (TCC) and features a simple Cost of Credit calculator, which you can use to estimate the total cost of a bank loan.

A quick reference guide and financing decision trees for MSMEs, developed by the International Trade Centre under the East African Community MARKUP project, funded by the European Union

Trade Finance is the financing of goods or services in a trade or transaction, from a supplier through to the end buyer. It accounts for 3% of global trade, worth some $3tn annually.

Trade Finance is the financing of goods or services in a trade or transaction, from a supplier through to the end buyer. It
accounts for 3% of global trade, worth some $3tn annually.