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AFDB Approves 49M Equity Investment for SMEs in Nigeria

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December 12, 2018
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AFDB Approves 49M Equity Investment for SMEs in Nigeria

The African Development Bank has approved a nine million dollar equity investment in the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN) to provide expansion capital to agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

This was contained in a press statement issued by the bank on Monday and published on its web: www.afdb.org.

The statement said that FAFIN is a first-generation private equity fund that provides financial, capacity-building and technical assistance to commercially viable SMEs in the Nigerian agribusiness sector.

It said that FAFIN used a unique value chain-centric approach, a combination of equity, quasi-equity and convertible loan instruments to provide loan for SME’s.

According to it, FAFIN implements its strategy and constructs its portfolio through a bifocal lens consisting of the twin objectives of competitive financial returns and measurable positive social impact.

The Fund is jointly sponsored by the German KfW Development Bank and the Government of Nigeria, through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD).

The Fund Manager is Sahel Capital (Mauritius) Limited, a fund management firm incorporated in Mauritius in 2013

The project is expected to deliver strong development outcomes from household benefits and employment through the creation of a large number of jobs and the provision of certain agricultural products.

It also said this would bring about positive gender and social effects through the implementation of out-grower schemes and supporting rural development and private sector development.

It said that through alleviation of financial constraints faced by agribusinesses, this would enhance agricultural value chains.

 

“The project’s contribution to inclusive growth is expected to be significant, given the large numbers of jobs to be created and out-growers to be reached at the level of sub-projects,’’ it said.

Its contribution to green growth is expected to be low, because the Fund targets the agribusiness sector with some expected negative effects on the environment.

The Fund’s primary focus will be on SMEs across the agricultural value chain with crop value chain and geographic diversification.

It aims at fixing broken value chains to increase efficiencies, reduce post-harvest loss, and increase smallholder farmer incomes and SME agribusiness profitability.

Investment instruments will be primarily quasi-equity (convertible bonds, preference shares and structured royalties) and direct equity. The ticket size ranges from 500, 000 dollars to 5 million dollars.

The Fund is aligned with the Bank’s ten-year strategy focusing on inclusive growth, strengthening agriculture and food security, and access to local SME finance. It added that this encapsulated in the Bank’ High Five Development Agenda for Africa, specifically Feed Africa and Industrialise Africa.

It is also in line with the bank’s strategy for Agricultural Transformation in Africa (2016-2025), Strategy on Jobs for Youth in Africa (2016-2025).

Others are the Bank’s Country Strategy Paper for Nigeria (2013-2017), which supports an enabling environment for agriculture.

 

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