Supporting the creative economy in East Africa

ongoing

Through this project AFD contributes to the consolidation of SMEs supported by the Heva Fund and enables it to offer larger loans for growth financing for the most developed cultural businesses and to extend its action to other creative sectors and other East African countries.The project aims to :Facilitate access to growth financing for around twenty companies in the creative sector, resulting in the industrialisation of their activity and the strengthening of their structureFoster the capacity building of the CCI ecosystem in Kenya and the region through capacity building of cultural entrepreneursPromote the production of studies on the various CCI sectors in order to develop arguments on the economic and social development impacts of CCIs and to advocate for this with public authorities and the private sector.