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AEF NOSA III The project involves an overhaul of the existing activities of NOSA through the following components:

-  improvement of the work flow, 
-  upgrade of the plant safety and environment conditions, 
-  installation of control, measurement and monitoring devices; and 
-  the expansion of the production capacity from about 8,700 to 17,400 tpa. 

The company specializes in the production of laundry soap, using locally produced palm oil as the main raw material. IFC supported the company with a guarantee facility (approved in June 1998, and committed in Feb. 1999) of CFA280 million ($0.4 million) to launch the then greenfield project.
SC MOBILES Project SCM is one of two nationwide cellular operators in Cameroon. In July 1999, SCM was awarded a license, through competitive tender, to build and operate the second nation-wide GSM digital cellular phone network in Cameroon. Under the license agreement, SCM is required to achieve pre-determined coverage levels with its network, commencing with coverage of the country''s three major commercial centers and the interconnecting highways within the first year, and culminating in coverage of all towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants within five years. The company launched services in January 2000 and has since experienced strong demand for its services. The project represents the initial three years of the company''s investment program.    The project is expected to have significant development impact by: (i) providing much needed telecommunications infrastructure; (ii) supporting the liberalization of the sector and introducing competition; (iii) lowering the entry barrier to telecommunications services; and, (iv) providing access to telephony in previously unserved areas.    This would be IFCs first investment in the telecommunications sector of Cameroon. It will complement the World Bank strategy for Cameroon''s telecommunications sector by supporting private sector participation, fostering competition and, through its demonstration effect, opening the country to foreign investment. As private capital is scarce in Cameroon, IFC would fulfil an important role by helping facilitate local currency long-term financing on terms and maturities not otherwise available. Since the company''s revenues are primarily denominated in local currency, local currency financing would help SCM mitigate devaluation risk.
AEF United Transport Cameroon II Summary Of Project Information (SPI)       Project Name    Cameroon-United Transport Cameroon (UTC II)              Region    Sub-Saharan Africa        Sector       Project No007435   Projected Board DateMay 21, 1996   Company NameUnited Transport Cameroon (UTC)   Technical Partner and/or Major Shareholders    	Mr. Sergio Avanzi, an Italian national, is the sponsor of the project.  He owns White Eagle Holding which controls 88% of UTCs capital.    Project Cost Including proposed IFC investment    	Total project cost is estimated at US$5 million equivalent.  IFC has been asked to provide a loan of US$1 million equivalent representing 20% of the total project cost.    Location of project and Description of site    	UTCs head offices are located in Douala, Cameroon, where the company owns two facilities on which it has built its offices and its repair shops.  Additional facilities are located in Ngaoundere, Ngaounda, Bertoua, Yaounde, Yocodouma, and Salapoumbe.    Description of Company and Purpose of Project (include IFC role\development impact)    	UTC, the main trucking company in Cameroon, owns and operates a fleet of 200 trucks and trailers.  The company was established in 1978 and it transports cargo within Cameroon and to landlocked countries such as Chad and the Central African Republic.  The proposed project consists of the acquisition of 68 new trucks in an effort to modernize and standardize the fleet and reduce operating costs.  Projects   The project will help improve the quality and reduce the cost of services offered by UTC. UTC plays an important developmental role by providing reliable and affordable transport to key productive sectors of the economy including agriculture, industry, forestry and the distribution of petroleum products.       	  The proposed loan, IFCs second to UTC, will be seen as a sign of continuing support to the Company and will facilitate the mobilizing of additional loans from local banks on better terms than could be achieved without IFCs presence.  At the request of IFC, the Company is adopting a plan for further improving its management of environmental and safety-related matters.    Environmental Category and Issues    	This is an environmental review category B project.  Environmental issues associated with this project include solid waste, oil/fuel storage and spill prevention, vehicle emissions and safety, and fire protection.  Company management is committed to ensuring that all safety issues and environmental programs are implemented in accordance with local government requirements and World Bank guidelines.    The  is  from the Public Information Center.         Date SPI sent to PIC     March 28, 1996      For Additional Information contact:  Corporate Relations Unit -   telephone: (202) 473-7711   facsimile: (202) 676-0365  Environmental documents for this project are available at http://www.ifc.org and from the World Bank InfoShop (http://www.worldbank.org/html/pic/aboutinfo.html).
La Camerounaise de Microfinance (LCM) The project consists of a senior loan (in local currency, if feasible), an equity investment and a technical assistance grant to La Camerounaise de Microfinance also known as Advans Cameroun. Advans Cameroun (Advans Cameroun or the company) will be a greenfield microfinance institution (MFI) sponsored by Horus Developpement Finance, a French consulting firm with recognized expertise in microfinance, and La Fayette Investissement (LFI), its associated investment company. The company will specialize in providing financial services to urban and semi-urban micro and small enterprises as well as low income groups and individuals in Cameroon. It is expected that after five years, the company will have ten branches, a portfolio comprising approx. 14,000 customers, and an outstanding loan portfolio of $15 million. The purpose of the project is to expand crucial financial services to a sector that rarely has access to services offered by formal financial institutions. The project will have a high development impact considering that microfinance has been shown to play a major positive role in reducing poverty and unemployment in developing countries. The initiative will strengthen the provision of microfinance services in Cameroon, where access to finance is sporadic for low-income populations and existing MFIs lack breadth and depth, do not focus enough on credit extension, and for their vast majority are unprofitable. By creating a new institution able to sustain microfinance on commercial terms and following best practices, the project has the potential to generate a substantial increase in the long-term availability of financial services for the poor. The project will also show local banks that sound microfinance can be profitable and will demonstrate the commercial merits of transparency, HR and IT investments and strategic planning. As a consequence, it is expected that the interest of local banks in the microenterprise and SME sector will be strengthened.
Eco-Cam CFA loan Ecobank Cameroon ("ECM or the "Bank") was founded in 2001and is organized under the laws of the Republic of Cameroon as a public liability company. ECM offers a wide variety of services and financial products to government, large corporate, small and medium size enterprises, micro finance institutions as well as individuals. The main purpose of the proposed term loan to Eco-Cam under this Project is to increase access of SMEs -which are an integral part of the economy- to financial services  and thus, fostering economic growth. The proposed project will increase access of SMEs to financial services by (i) providing funding to Eco-Cam focusing on SME financing, (ii) building the Banks capacity and (iii) raising awareness on best SME Banking practices.
FME-GAZ Sarl The project involves the expansion of the production capacity of the company, which produces and distributes industrial gases (mainly oxygen and acetylene). The company was created in 1993  through the acquisition of the repackaging equipment for cooling gases of the local subsidiary of the German firm HOECHST.  In 1993 HOECHST closed its activities in Cameroon and signed an exclusive representation contract for cooling gases with FME-GAZ. In 1995, the company diversified into the production of industrial gases in response to the increasing demand which CAMOA (Société Camerounaise d''Oxygène et d''Acétylène), a local subsidiary of the French AIR LIQUIDE Group, could not satisfy. The expansion entails the purchase and installation of the following equipment: (i) a second air separation plant for oxygen with a capacity of 30 m3/hour, bringing the total capacity to 45 m3/hour; (ii) the acquisition of some essential utilities (gas cylinders and trucks); and (iii) the expansion of the production facility to house the new oxygen unit and the construction of a loading plate-form.      IFC''s objective is to help provide financial resources channeled towards long term financing. Local banks dispose mainly of short term resources, and their ability for long term funding of investments is now severely constrained by implementation of tighter prudential regulations by COBAC. Investors are now turning to international financial institutions such as PROPARCO, FMO, DEG, IFC, etc.     The developmental impact resulting from the project includes: (i) contributing in improving competition in the local liquid gas industry, which has been dominated for many years by a single multinational firm: CAMOA of the French AIR LIQUIDE group . This company is present in most French speaking African countries as a monopoly. Cameroon is one of the rare countries where an indigenous firm has successfully established a business in the sector, and captured a share of the market; (ii) enabling IFC to implement its objective under the Chad-Cameroon SME initiative, to promote and increase an indigenous participation in sub-contracting activities in the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project; and (iii) creating 16 additional permanent jobs and save the existing ones, bringing the total up to 50.
SGC Agri RSF The project, a joint World Bank/IFC initiative, aims to promote competitiveness of Producer Organizations in the value chains of cassava, maize and sorghum by providing them with financing (pre- and post-harvest) to increase and modernize their production and vertically integrate their business to agribusiness end customers.   The proposed project with Société Générale Cameroon (SGCAM or the Bank) is a Risk Sharing Facility of up to XOF2.5 billion to support lending to Producer Organizations in Cameroon. SGCAM is the largest bank in the country in terms of loans and second bank in terms of deposits, with a network of 32 branches. The Bank has a universal bank business model servicing the retail, SME and corporate business segments. The Project will: (i)	improve the livelihoods of indirect and direct beneficiaries including smallholder producers involved in the cassava, maize, sorghum and rice value chains; (ii) create further employment at both producer organization and agro-industry levels thereby supporting one of the largest and poorest employment brackets in the country; (iii) addresses issues of food security through the substitution of imports by locally-produced raw materials. (iv) create jobs for women: The project is likely to reach at least 25% women given that for some of the value chains such as cassava and even maize, women are the majority of farmers. Increasing their economic power improves many livelihoods. They are more likely than men to contribute income to (1) poverty reduction; (2) improved nutrition; (3) school tuition
Bocom Clean Cooking Facility Bocom Petroleum (Bocom) is a downstream distributor of petroleum products in Cameroon (i.e. LPG, lubricants, gasoline, diesel and kerosene). It operates its own network of 80 fuel stations throughout the country, as well as an LPG storage and cylinder filling plant, and a lubricant blending facility. Bocom owns the only private LPG coastal storage facility in Cameroon, which is essential for cooking gas distribution in the country, and necessary to promote clean cooking practices across the country. Bocom is also the only manufacturer of lubricants  through a blending process- in Cameroon (and Central Africa), which is essential to ensure the reliable supply of well-priced quality lubricants to various consumer segments in the country. Availability of quality lubricants ensures automobiles and machinery are efficiently run in Cameroon, with lower maintenance costs, prolongs useful lives of auto\machinery, and reduces unnecessary replacement costs.     The Project entails the further diversification of Bocom from white products, and growth of its cleaner and higher value downstream product (LPG and Lubricants). It entails the expansion of Bocoms LPG business through added storage and filling capacity in Douala, and establishing LPG centers across multiple provinces in the country, (which supports clean cooking across the country); and the expansion of its lubricants blending facility capacity in Douala.  The project is expected to be supported by the IDA19 Private Sector Window Blended Finance Facility (IDA PSW BFF) as described in the Blended Finance Section. The most significant expected project-level outcome is increased access to LPG products to support clean cooking in underserved areas of the country. LPG use improves households air quality especially for women and children compared the widespread use of firewood or charcoal for cooking. The project will also increase access to high quality lubricants in a market where access to lubricants is quite poor in most of the country, and thereby, efficiency of automotives' engine combustion is low with the consequent detrimental effects on GHG emissions. Beyond these, the Project will also contribute to mitigate one of the deforestation drivers by displacing the use of unsustainable firewood and charcoal, support job creation in Cameroon and contribute to the countrys GDP through forward linkages with LPG retailers, and contribute significantly to improve the competitiveness of the LPG and Lubricants market in Cameroon through a sizable expansion in capacity, enhanced operational and distribution efficiency, and adoption of improved safety standards.
BOP La Regionale The proposed project (the Project) consists of an unsecured senior loan of up to XAF3 billion (Central African Franc) or approximately US$4.6 million equivalent to La Régionale (the Company or the MFI). The Project will provide local currency funding to support the microfinance institution (MFI) in increasing its lending capacity to the retail segment, including Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Cameroon. The project will be processed under IFCs COVID Base of Pyramid (BOP) Facility and will be supported by IDA-PSW Blended Finance Facility (IDA PSW-BFF) and IDA-PSW Local Currency Facility (IDA PSW-LCF). The most significant expected project-level outcome for the project is access to finance for SMEs to support economic activity and resilience in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. Beyond the project outcome, IFC anticipates that the Project will support resilience amongst base-of-pyramid (BoP) finance providers demonstrating the viability of lending to BoP providers and crowding in other sources of international and domestic finance in support of these lenders.
CCA-Bank Senior Loan The proposed project consists of a senior loan with a maturity of up to six years for an amount of up to XAF10 billion (or approximately US$16.6 million) to support the growth of the loan portfolio of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), including women owned/led MSMEs (WMSMEs) of Crédit Communautaire dAfrique Bank (CCA-Bank or the Bank) (the Project). The SME loans will be originated by CCA-Bank, a financial institution that was the largest microfinance institution (MFI) in Cameroon up until May 2018 when it obtained a banking license and that is currently the eighth largest bank in Cameroon in terms of net loans. The most significant expected project-level outcome is the increase in access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including women owned/led SMEs. This Project is also part of a program of interventions that IFC is pursuing with several financial institutions in Cameroon with the intention of providing SME financing to promote greater market competitiveness through demonstration and replication effect.
AEF 3T CAMEROUN Tout Transit Transport Cameroun (3T Cameroun) is a private limited partnership company operating in the business of road transportation and handling.  The company was incorporated in 1991 and current share capital is CFAF 250 million ($0.47 million).  The purpose of the project is to support the expansion of 3T Cameroun.  Part of the expansion plan has already been completed in September 2004 and includes the commissioning of the office building, and the acquisition of a forklift, five lorry-tractors and five trailers. The remaining part of the expansion plan involves the acquisition of the seven lorry-tractors and seven trailers, a spare engine and working capital. Total project cost for the entire expansion plan is estimated at Euro 2.14 million, Euro1.07 million (50%) of which is solicited from IFC in the form of a medium term loan.
Reducing High Fertility Rates and Improving Sexual Reproductive Health outcomes in Uganda (RISE)
10992 "The RISE consortium is led by MSU and comprises of the following partners: Reach a Hand Uganda (RAHU), FHI 360, Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) and Population Media Centre (PMC).   
Options is responsible for supporting activities related to Output 4 of the RISE programme during the period July 2021 to the end of project (October 2023), with a specific focus on strengthening accountability for a supportive environment for SRHR.  The key objective of Output 4 is to develop the capacity and interest of local actors at the sub-national and national levels to engage with and hold government accountable in building a supportive environment for reproductive health services. The focus of this ToR is for interventions at sub-national level."
NGA.S2 Effective and inclusive partnerships for impact and sustainability The UNAIDS Secretariat continues to strengthen dialogue between governments, affected communities, and other stakeholders for progressive global policy. The evolving context and development agenda demands a renewed Joint Programme approach to partnerships
(2022-2023) NGA.S4 Coordination, convening and country implementation support Building on the accumulated expertise, systems and partnerships of the HIV response and on broader health and development efforts, the UNAIDS Secretariat works with countries and communities to strengthen national mechanisms for effective coordination and coherence. UN Joint Teams on AIDS in countries and other regional interagency mechanisms support inclusive and sustainable national HIV responses that promote a whole-of-government and whole-of society efforts to end inequalities and end AIDS as a public health threat. Together with communities and duty bearers, the Joint Teams use an inequalities lens to identify people who are being left behind and to urgently reduce the inequalities, inequities and exclusion experienced by people living with, affected by and at risk of HIV, including in humanitarian or other extreme circumstances.
NGA.S4 Coordination, coherence and convening The ECOSOC Resolution (E/RES/2013/11) cites the Joint Programme as an example of good practice for the UN as a whole to enhance strategic coherence, coordination and results-based focus and country-level impact in the post-2015 period. In 2016-2021, the Joint Programme will support a ‘One United Nations’, working closely with Cosponsors, maximizing comparative advantages at country level in relation to other development partners, and supporting national efforts to Fast-Track the AIDS response towards ending the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030. The Secretariat will broker, strengthen and leverage synergy and accountability between technical support mechanisms and providers of essential HIV services
(2022-2023) NGA.S2 Partnerships, mobilization and innovation The UNAIDS Secretariat enhances political will, convene strategic initiatives and partnerships, and foster mobilization of sustainable resources. It provides thought leadership, advocacy, knowledge management and communities of practice, and normative and operational guidance, tools and implementation support for a rights-based, gender transformative response––including through innovative, community- and youth-led approaches. The aim is to achieve expanded access to HIV services, catalyze action on societal enablers, engender increasingly competent and resilient communities, including in the face of human rights and health crises, and increase accountability from duty bearers to rights holders.
(2022-2023) NGA.S3 Strategic information In accordance with its mandate to collect pertinent data from countries and report progress towards global HIV response targets, the UNAIDS Secretariat leads the HIV response tracking and reporting, support the identification of inequalities in the HIV response and enhance countries’ strategic information capacities on the HIV epidemic and response with regards to: epidemiological status; demographic impact; HIV financial flows and expenditures; prevention, treatment and care gaps; laws and policies and the scale-up and implementation of monitoring and evaluation efforts.
NGA.S1 Leadership, advocacy and communication to fast track the AIDS response The UNAIDS Secretariat continue its leadership role to establish an inclusive, result-driven global agenda for the Strategic Directions outlined in the UNAIDS Strategy for 2016-2021. It works across all Action Areas in collaboration with convening Cosponsors according to UNAIDS Division of Labour. The Secretariat raises awareness, advocates and builds commitment for Fast-Tracking the AIDS response to end the epidemic by 2030. Through leadership and advocacy the Secretariat works to keep HIV high on the global agenda and builds the vision, momentum and foundations for robust, sustainable political commitment to predictable and fully financed AIDS responses with higher returns on HIV investments
(2022-2023) NGA.S1 Leadership, advocacy and communications The UNAIDS Secretariat engages political leaders, high level platforms, activists, champions and other key stakeholders to maintain and enhance the multisectoral response, in order to address the multidimensional nature of the global AIDS epidemic and in support of ending AIDS, reducing inequalities and accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
NGA.S5 Mutual accountability The Secretariat is responsible for ensuring mutual accountability of the Joint Programme to optimally deliver on the Joint Programme’s shared mission, vision and Strategy. This demands strategic coherence, a results-based focus, alignment of resources with corporate priorities, and ensuring that the Joint Programme speaks with one voice. In collaboration with partners, the Joint Programme will work to generate political momentum and capital to position AIDS and the Joint Programme in the wider post-2015 development agenda and leverage the unique experience of the Joint Programme to strengthen effective UN governance, in particular by strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030, as provided in the SDGs