Guinea: the African Growth Fund grants a $14 million mortgage to help industrial growth and the resilience of SMEs –

The African Growth Fund helps Guinea’s institutional capacities to facilitate its industrial growth and strengthen the resilience of its small and medium-sized enterprises and industries (SMEs-SMIs).

CONAKRY, Guinea, June 27, 2024 -/African Media Company (AMA)/-The Board of Administrators of the African Growth Fund, the concessional window of the African Growth Financial institution Group, permitted, Tuesday June 25, 2024 in Abidjan, a mortgage of $14.04 million to Guinea to implement the Industrial Growth and Resilience of SMEs Help Mission (PADIRPME).

Financing from Pillar 1 of the Transition Help Facility – a Financial institution financing instrument meant for fragile or transitional international locations – permits Guinea to strengthen its institutional capacities to advertise its industrial growth and the resilience of its small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The venture will notably help the development of planning, coordination, monitoring and promotion capacities for the commercial growth of the West African nation. It can additionally make it potential to ascertain a program to help the expansion and resilience of SMEs and SMIs and to strengthen the supply of public companies to non-public firms.

The principle problem that this venture seeks to handle is the present deficit in institutional capacities for the administration and implementation of commercial coverage, each on the macroeconomic and sectoral stage and on the microeconomic stage, on the enterprise stage.

Stressing that Guinea has appreciable industrial growth potential that’s nonetheless insufficiently unexploited, the director of the Industrial Growth and Commerce Division of the Financial institution, Ousmane Fall, believes that “the help of the African Growth Fund will allow Guinea to handle the basis causes of fragility and consolidate the sources of long-term resilience by means of institutional growth for sustainable and inclusive industrialization of Guinea, selling the event of the non-public sector and the consolidation of a peaceable and resilient society.

The Fund’s help will allow Guinea to amass the mandatory capacities to advertise the event of recent productive capacities contributing to the diversification of its financial system and job creation. It can assist stimulate the method of structural transformation and generate productiveness features mandatory to enhance the standard of lifetime of Guineans and strengthen the nation’s financial and social resilience.


The venture consists of three parts: capability constructing for planning, steering and implementation of growth coverage; built-in help for resilience, the promotion of inexperienced {industry} and the expansion of SMEs and SMIs; venture administration and coordination.

The venture will straight or not directly profit all gamers within the non-public industrial sector. The non-public sector, girls and younger individuals (ladies and men), will profit from elevated alternatives by means of the strengthening of the non-public sector help ecosystem permitting them to raised seize the alternatives supplied by the brand new industrial coverage and the provisions of the native content material regulation.

In the long run, the venture’s growth impression lies in strengthening institutional capacities for industrial insurance policies, involving the acceleration of financial transformation by means of the event of SMEs, together with these of ladies, industrial modernization and exports, strengthening competitiveness and selling non-public funding, enhancing human assets, with a deal with younger ladies and men and decreasing disparities, significantly concerning gender inequalities.

The venture strengthens the actions of the Financial institution Group, that are underway in Guinea which purpose on the growth of agro-industry and particular agro-industrial processing zones and the event of the non-public sector by means of the formalization of companies and the promotion entrepreneurship of younger individuals and girls.

Distributed by African Media Company (AMA) on behalf of the African Growth Financial institution.

Supply : African Media Company (AMA)

2024-06-27 17:12:32
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