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Across Africa, innovators in the financial sector often find it difficult to access the right kind of finance, or financial instrument to get their projects off the ground. The financial support that is available for pioneering ideas is often poorly structured; available equity investment is often inappropriate for early-stage founder-led companies and debt finance can be difficult to access without significant equity.

As a result, many high-potential projects in the fail, without the financial support they need to thrive. FSD Africa is unique in being able to draw on the full range of financing instruments — from pure grant finance through to early-stage or risk-bearing investment capital. They are reserved for high-potential, but higher risk, commercial projects or for non-commercial projects that have the potential for system-wide impact.

Returnable grants Returnable grants can be an effective way for FSD Africa to share risk with its commercial partners. Withthe expectation that a returnable grant would be repaid in full, FSD Africa uses returnable grants to support high-risk commercial projects.

These projects build value for our partners and therefore grants can be repaid out of increased revenues or profits and deployed into other deserving projects. Investment capital Throughour investment arm, FSD Africa Investments , we finance high risk businesses and funds operating in the financial sector that have potential for high impact in financing the real economy, and bringing about systemic financial market change. Technical assistance Persistent skills gaps in government agencies and across the private sector mean that financial product innovation and policy and regulatory reform processes can be slow.

These problems are magnified as the financial sector becomes increasingly fast-paced, and technology-driven. FSD Africa has a strong track record of advisory work and technical assistance across both public and private sectors. We work alongside our partners to co-design our technical interventions and capacity-building support programmes; we deliver assistance and training through our own team of sector experts or indirectly by bringing on board an expert partner from our international network of technical experts.

We manage all of our technical assistance programmes end-to-end, from intervention design through to procurement and implementation, to ensure long-lasting impacts.

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