Africa MSME Finance Program

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IFC will be seeking its Board approval of $13.0 million allocation from the Funding Mechanism for Technical Assitance and Advisory Services (FMTAAS) to finance the Africa Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Finance Program. The Program is to support MSME finance know-how transfer through 2 years of on-site institution building work in IFC client financial institutions, to be conducted by a select group of advisory firms. The Program will initially be launched for about 15 banks in at least five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. If the initial roll-out proves successful, then the Program will be scaled up to as many as 15 more banks The ultimate objective of the Program is to deepen and broaden the African financial sector and to raise the standard of financial services provided to MSMEs.