Empowering African Businesses

AGPN interventions focus on the areas of institutional advocacy, market and development, and digital
Entrepreneurship.

AGPN’s result-based proprietary investment development model, trademarked in the US as RPFM (Readiness Planning and Facilitation Model), accelerates the execution of investment projects with (3) key components: (i) Preparation – develop a value proposition targeted to the types of investment required (ii) Planning – develop an optimal investor portfolio for a given investment (iii) Facilitation – supports project sponsor through the investment cycle with modules to operationalize and manage the project.

Market Due Diligence. We help DFI, private equity groups, and corporate acquirers, lenders, and independent sponsors make better investment decisions with primary market insights. AGPN MDD helps you assess risk by validating investment hypotheses, pressure-test points of attraction, and risk factors to assess the opportunity carefully. We identify key initiatives that position clients and partners for risk mitigation and sustained growth.

Inspection and Certification. AGPN has a commercial mandate from the Swiss Association International Compliance Network (ICN) to carry out ICN’s certification and inspection in Africa related to industrial and agrifood inspections; accredited and internationally recognized certificates of conformity to the International Standard Organization (ISO) and other standards in the commercial and industrial fields, relating to management systems, products, processes and services, and people skills; commercial and industrial compliance training activities

Public sector productivity. Design, implementation, and management of e-government solutions.

Trade facilitation. AGPN has an exclusive commercial mandate in the Central Africa Region from Scanners Systems, a pioneer in Africa in the construction, operationalization, and management of integrated border posts. The solutions that we offer in public-private partnership (PPP) under a BOT (Build, Operate, and Transfer) model allow the rapid implementation of an integrated system for the effective monitoring and control of commercial transactions at borders with an expanded traceability system, which contributes to strengthening cross-border trade and security and revenue collection from said cross-border trade.

Promoting the design of innovative financial solutions for African enterprises.

AGPNs collaborate with three (3) types of beneficiary enterprises situated on a continuum of access to finance and markets: (i) Multinationals and large corporations, (ii) State-Owned-Enterprises and PPP Projects, (ii) Youth and Women-led SMEs and Entrepreneurs. AGPN works with its partners to provide a range of instruments that vary by the beneficiary. All intended to address the same need: Expanding domestic and regional access to markets by availing growth capital.

Financial Solutions for Multinationals and Corporations. AGPN raises funding for private sector-borne transformative projects and domestic and locally bred multinational enterprises that have the potential to spur domestic and regional value chains. AGPN will identify these prospects and use various instruments to provide growth capital and technical support by working with its network of DFIs, commercial banks, PEs, VCs, and institutional investors.

Financial Solutions for SMEs and Entrepreneurs. Design, promote, and manage innovative SME investment funds and alternative financing solutions. AGPN’s initial funds focus on French-speaking countries of Central and West Africa, which also has a consulting component that makes it possible to evaluate the conditions for creating a fund in each market and laying the foundations for its effective execution. It also works with existing funds, be they VCs, PES, or SME development funds provided by MDBs, to provide a pipeline of investment-ready SMEs.

Africa Private Sector Council (APSC). APSC is AGPN’s high-level dialogue platform that facilitates private sector participation in development projects by promoting intimate stakeholder consultations and understanding that expand private sector investment and cross-border trade through insights, planning, and action.