Knowledge products

This session brought together emerging ESO networks in Francophone Africa and more established networks to foster dialogue, mutual learning, and the sharing of concrete experiences. 

The webinar brought together practitioners engaged in implementing innovative financing mechanisms in Benin, Togo, and Senegal.

This playbook is designed as a practical guide for BDS providers and founders of Green Industries, startups and SMEs in Africa, aiming to equip them with essential information and tools for navigating the fundraising journey and successfully scaling their ventures into other African countries. 

This guide supports practitioners in designing and implementing inclusive, gender-responsive programmes using a Theory of Change (ToC).

The peer exchange explored what makes early-stage businesses genuinely ready to access finance, drawing on the perspectives of a commercial bank, an investor, and participating ESOs.

The Kisumu policies, now consolidated into a document, provide a roadmap to ecosystem actors and entrepreneurs for supporting local producers, enhancing market access, promoting local procurement, and building stronger, more resilient enterprises across Kisumu County.

Discover our latest study, carried out by the IYBA SEED team in Kenya in partnership with Intellecap, a comprehensive assessment of the Kenyan financial services landscape, spotlighting the gaps that keep early-stage businesses, youth, and women entrepreneurs from accessing the capital they need to grow.

The study Public Development Banks (PDBs) and Other Public Agencies, conducted under the Team Europe Initiative Investing in Young Businesses in Africa (IYBA), explores how European partners support African public development banks and other public institutions to improve access to finance for early-stage businesses in sub-Saharan Africa.