5.4 Case Study 4: Enterprise solutions to poverty
5.4 Case Study 4: Enterprise solutions to poverty
local capital and the challenge of
going to scale
Key Features of the SME financing case study
The Shell Foundation is supporting the sustainable
growth of SME’s in Africa via the linked provision
of both business development assistance and noncollateralised
finance. African SMEs are typically
unable to secure commercial finance because
local banks are reluctant to take on the ‘risks’
represented by lending to entrepreneurs who lack
both business experience and collateral
In the last 2 years, in partnership with local banks,
we have set up the $5 million Uganda Energy
Fund and the $8 million Empowerment through
Energy Fund in South Africa. Our banking
partners in these initiatives are fully at risk with us.
Results to date:
345 pro-poor enterprises have received business
development assistance – of which 170 are now
receiving finance and ongoing mentoring.
It is estimated that these two funds have created
almost a thousand new jobs plus generated a
variety of other pro-poor outcomes
Both funds have gained enormously from valueadded
and no-cost support from local Shell
companies.
Both funds are generating financial returns that
are attractive to commercial investors
$20 million second stage funds are planned for
both with the large majority of capital being
provided by local banks
Things are further advanced in our SME
investment fund programme – called Investment
Partnerships – now operating in Uganda and South
Africa, and soon to be extended elsewhere in Africa
and beyond. The issue – lack of energy access by
poor rural households and producers – is the same
as in India only more extreme.51 The energy access
challenge being explored by Shell Foundation in
Africa is also the same as in India: how to catalyse
the development of a financially viable SME sector
capable of supplying pro-poor energy sources and
services.
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SME investment funds – deploying
local capital and the challenge of
going to scale
Key Features of the SME financing case study
The Shell Foundation is supporting the sustainable
growth of SME’s in Africa via the linked provision
of both business development assistance and noncollateralised
finance. African SMEs are typically
unable to secure commercial finance because
local banks are reluctant to take on the ‘risks’
represented by lending to entrepreneurs who lack
both business experience and collateral
In the last 2 years, in partnership with local banks,
we have set up the $5 million Uganda Energy
Fund and the $8 million Empowerment through
Energy Fund in South Africa. Our banking
partners in these initiatives are fully at risk with us.
Results to date:
345 pro-poor enterprises have received business
development assistance – of which 170 are now
receiving finance and ongoing mentoring.
It is estimated that these two funds have created
almost a thousand new jobs plus generated a
variety of other pro-poor outcomes
Both funds have gained enormously from valueadded
and no-cost support from local Shell
companies.
Both funds are generating financial returns that
are attractive to commercial investors
$20 million second stage funds are planned for
both with the large majority of capital being
provided by local banks
Things are further advanced in our SME
investment fund programme – called Investment
Partnerships – now operating in Uganda and South
Africa, and soon to be extended elsewhere in Africa
and beyond. The issue – lack of energy access by
poor rural households and producers – is the same
as in India only more extreme.51 The energy access
challenge being explored by Shell Foundation in
Africa is also the same as in India: how to catalyse
the development of a financially viable SME sector
capable of supplying pro-poor energy sources and
services.
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enterprise, particularly SMEs, is critical to economic
and poverty reduction. This is hardly a new or
revolutionary argument. It has been advanced by
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6.3 Come Together: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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2.0 Introduction: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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1.15 Building an employment agenda: Working Out of Poverty
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the most effective route to poverty eradication. The objective of full employment
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1.9 Building local development through cooperatives: Working Out of Poverty
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