• Follow Us
Search
Private sector & Development

Valoriser l’expérience du secteur privé dans les pays en développement

Un blog animé par Proparco
  • About us
    • Editorial line
    • Advisory Board
    • Editorial team
    • Team of referees
  • Themes
    • key figures
    • Providing companies
      • Technical Assistance
      • Corporate governance
      • Social business
      • Vulnerabilities and crisis
    • Agri-business
      • Agricultural production
      • Forests
    • Private equity
      • Private equity in Africa
      • Private equity and clean energy
    • Construction and Real Estate
      • Cement
      • Housing
    • Environment
      • Climat
      • RSE
    • Gender
    • Oil, Gas and Mining
    • Industry and manufacturing sector
    • Infrastructures
      • Wastes
      • Water and sanitation
      • Energie
      • Telecoms
      • Transport
    • Health and Education
      • Education
      • Health
    • Financial Sector
      • Insurance
      • Banks
      • SME Financing
      • Financial Markets
      • Microfinance
    • Supporting high-potential innovative start-ups
    • Tourism
    • Focus
      • Education in Africa
  • All authors
  • PS&D Magazine
  • Language: English
    • Français Français
    • English English

défis

Home » Posts tagged défis
Vulnerabilities and crisis

Building a collaborative recovery

  • Søren-Peter Andreasen General Manager EDFI
18 May 2022
©Michael-Coghlan
Collaboration among European DFIs has continued to grow during the pandemic and has helped these institutions achieve their investment objectives based on complementary expertise, networks and capacities. This Continue Reading
Share
Corporate governance

Taking over at the helm of a company: duties, challenges and solutions

  • Mossadeck Bally Founder, Chairman and CEO Azalaï Hotels Group
04 February 2019
©Azalai hotels group
The issue of taking over at the helm of a company has long been – and is still today – a taboo in Africa. When the time comes to appoint […]Continue Reading
Share
Supporting high-potential innovative start-ups

Venture capital in Africa: the long-term opportunity for investors

  • Andrea-Traversone Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners
18 June 2018
©Backdrop Proparco
With a high population growth rate and a significantly rising GDP between 2007 and 2016, Africa undoubtedly represents a strong potential for investors. And despite some gaps, the venture capital […]Continue Reading
Share
Health Health and Education

Helping the pharmaceutical industry meet health challenges in Africa

  • Adrien Absolu Health & Social Welfare Project Manager AFD
  • Geoffrey Coombs Investment Officer Proparco
  • Mehdi Tanani Senior Investment Officer Proparco
27 March 2018
©Pierre TERDJMAN pour l'AFD
With 13% of the world’s population and 24% of the global burden of disease – but 6% of health expenditure and only 3% of the world’s pharmaceutical output, Africa faces […]Continue Reading
Share
Environment Social business

Low-cost private schools scalable solution to a massive gap?

  • Steve Beck Co-fondateur et Directeur associé Novastar
  • Shannon May (Français) Co-fondatrice et directrice du développement Bridge
07 July 2016
© Bridge
To provide low-cost nursery and primary school education in poor neighbourhoods, Bridge International Academies has developed a vertically-integrated system. It includes operational tools and systems, curriculum Continue Reading
Share
Infrastructures Transport

Improving air transport efficiency in Africa

  • Jean-Louis Baroux President APG World Connect
04 July 2016
© AERIA EGIS
The opportunities presented by air transport are particularly relevant to Africa, however the sector is hampered by lingering over-dependence on governments, supervisory bodies that are often inefficient or corrupt, Continue Reading
Share
Education Health and Education

Financial sector in Africa: training the next generation of managers

  • Friederike Möllers AccessCampus
  • Bernd Zattler AccessCampus
20 June 2016
©AccessCampus group
For investors in financial institutions in Africa and other developing economies, a lack of managerial capacity is particularly evident in the “post-expatriate” phase – the moment when local capacity is […]Continue Reading
Share
Private equity Private equity in Africa

Acting sustainably to promote African small business: The challenge facing mission investors

  • Jean-Michel Severino Chairman I&P
06 June 2016
© I&P
Africa is the new frontier for private equity, yet the region is having trouble channelling the corresponding financial flows to its woefully underfunded small businesses. The continent cannot adequately develop Continue Reading
Share
Environment Social business

The diversity of social business: the case of Madagascar

  • Nicolas Vincent Research Officer AFD
16 May 2016
© Entrepreneurs du monde
Despite a troubled macroeconomic and political environment, Madagascar possesses a fairly diversified, dynamic economic fabric in comparison to other countries with a similar level of development. This national Continue Reading
Share
Environment Social business

The ambitious and challenges of social business – Better definiting and structuring the sector

  • Jean-Gabriel Dayre Senior Investment Officer Proparco
  • Jeanne Hénin Project leader CEFEB
02 May 2016
© Sanergy
Social business is a demanding business model: social enterprises pursue social or environmental goals while also seeking long-term profitability and they face many challenges. In the wide- ranging ‘impact Continue Reading
Share
  • Older posts
Register to be informed

Last video

Presentation of the Private Sector & Development #38 - Climate change adaptation magazine
spd38_newsletter_visuel_video

Our videos on Youtube

Tweets

Tweets de @priveetdev
Go to infographia

Useful links

  • ID4D-logo
  • proparco_logo2

Archives

Who we are

Proparco is a development finance institution and the subsidiary of Agence Française de Développement dedicated to private sector financing in the South.

Read more

The analyses and conclusions of the Private Sector & Development Blog are formulated under the responsibility of their authors. They do not necessarily reflect the official views of Proparco, or more broadly of Agence Française de Développement or its partner institutions.

Our partners

ID4D-logo AFD_logo_104x43

Contact us

Follow us

Copyright @ 2023 Private Sector & Development
Credit blog.secteur-prive-developpement.fr