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Helios Towers Africa, Ltd. The project consists of the pan-Africa build out of a shared telecommunication infrastructure network to be owned by Helios Towers Africa Limited (HTA or Company), through the Companys subsidiaries.  HTA was established in late 2009 to provide GSM and fixed wireless operators in Africa with an economically viable and environmentally friendly outsourced alternative to in-house construction, maintenance and ownership of telecommunication tower sites.  The Company, through its operating subsidiaries in each country, will acquire, build and operate telecommunications towers and lease space on such towers to mobile operators in Africa, excluding Nigeria. By contributing to the cost effective expansion of Africa's wireless telecommunications tower network, this project will:

(i)	Expand mobile telephony access: With the construction of additional tower sites, existing mobile operators will be able to expand the reach of their services both in terms of geography and capacity. In addition, collocation reduces the incremental cost of expanding service for all carriers thereby allowing them to service remote and economically less developed areas where ARPU and usage will be lower. 
(ii)	Increase competition: The presence of Helios Towers Africa will allow smaller and newer wireless operators to benefit from reduced barriers to entry as they will have access to leased tower facilities rather than having to build their own.
(iii)	Expand access to other ICT technologies:  Helios Towers Africa, through its subsidiaries, will be building a tower network that is capable of supporting not only mobile cellular networks, but also wireless broadband and backhaul networks, thereby improving the penetration of these technologies.
(iv)	Contribute to mitigating environmental impact and Climate Change: The underlying projects developed by the Company will provide a cost effective opportunity to telecommunication operators to reduce their carbon emission footprint by sharing infrastructure. A significant benefit of sharing tower infrastructure arises from the material, energy and emissions savings that ensue from building only one tower instead of three or four.
FINCA Africa The project involves a US$10 million equivalent debt facility for FINCAs African affiliates in DRC, Tanzania and a proposed greenfield in Nigeria. The proposed loans will be denominated in local currency in Tanzania and Nigeria and will support the expansion of lending activities to MSMEs in Tanzania, DRC and Nigeria. FINCAs strategy in Africa is to focus operations on underserved markets and groups, namely rural areas and women. It is anticipated this project will have a high developmental impact by:  i)	providing funding to underserved segments in IDA countries, particularly women and youth. Over 95% of FINCA's clients in Africa are women and this funding will support portfolio growth and geographic expansion.  ii) diversifying funding sources for FINCA's affiliates in Africa, and   iii) increasing the tenor of local currency financing available in the local markets.
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          The project consists of an investment of up to US$100 million by IFC to be part of a revolving uncommitted trade finance facility of US$300 million (the Facility), arranged by Société Générale, Paris ( 
         Société Générale 
         ) for Sahara Energy Resources Limited (SERIOM) and Sahara DMCC (DMCC), both subsidiaries of Sahara Group (Sahara). The project would have significant development impact enabling one of the few African private oil trading companies having a regional footprint to: 
(i)	facilitate imports of strategic energy products in IDA countries, which are vital for the economies of the concerned IDA countries. 
(ii)	facilitate exports of critical commodities that are essential to some emerging market economies, and generate FX revenues for those countries.
The project would also indirectly back the business activity of companies involved in import/export, refining, transportation, distribution and retailing of crude oil and oil products, which is expected to enhance and sustain the employment generation capacity of these enterprises in the value chain.
IFRIA TCLP SSA The Project consists in the establishment of the IFRIA cold chain platform (IFRIA) which will pursue a mix of acquisitions and greenfield assets in the 3rd party temperature-controlled logistics (TCL) sector across North and West Africa. The 1st round of IFRIA pipeline will consist of (i) two brownfield ventures in Morocco: the acquisition of one bonded facility in the port of Tangier Med and of one other existing TCL operator in the Casablanca area and (ii) three greenfield ventures: one in Agadir (Morocco) and two in Senegal: one bonded facility at the port of Dakar and another at an industrial park some distance from Dakar. The Project is expected to improve access to high quality 3rd party TCL services in Morocco and Senegal through strategic acquisitions and greenfield investments that will add capacity of nearly 50,000 pallets across five facilities to meet growing demand, primarily in fruits & vegetables and fish supply chains. The investment will support economic growth and job creation in the target markets and will contribute to emissions savings through reduction of food losses and measures to reduce the carbon footprint of the facilities. Further, IFC expects the Project to improve competitiveness by introducing formality, efficient scale, new technologies and higher quality standards into the TCL industries in the target markets. Expansion of TCL services through the platform may also contribute to the integration trade flows across the North and West Africa region, as well as improved access to international markets for customers (by supporting imports), local fishing companies and producers (by supporting exports).
Liquid Telecom Equity Liquid Telecommunications (Jersey) Limited (the Company or Liquid) is a leading pan-African technology group with operations across 15 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. Liquid has firmly established itself as the leading provider of pan-African digital infrastructure with an extensive network covering approximately 100,000 km. Liquid is redefining network, cloud, and cybersecurity offerings through strategic partnerships with leading global players, innovative business applications, smart cloud services and world-class security on the African continent. The Group also operates data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, Harare and Kigali, with a combined potential 19,000 square metres of rack space and 74 MW of power.  The transaction comprises of a US$90 million equity investment to help company expand its data centre business. The investment would enable the Company to undertake its planned capital expenditure program over next few years to continue be the leading player supporting the digitization of Africa. The Project is expected to increase access to data center capacity for businesses in regional hubs like South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt, along with countries with larger gaps such as  the DRC and South Sudan, that are digitally connected to these hubs. This has the potential to enable increased availability of quality digital services for individuals and enhanced productivity growth for businesses, recognizing some potential for increased GHG emissions. Beyond the Project, the investment is expected to strengthen integration of the African economy by enabling a faster growth of cloud computing services through expansion of data infrastructure.
Standard Bank MCF This project is Multi Country Facility (MCF) of up to $75 million to foster a multi-country partnership between Standard Bank Group Limited (SBG or the Group) and IFC.  IFCs facility would consist of subordinated / Tier 2 loans (IFC C loans) and would finance SBGs majority-owned subsidiaries (SBG Subsidiaries) in DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.  The financing would be subject to requisite regulatory approvals.   The project offers a unique opportunity to foster a strong partnership between one of the largest African banking groups and IFC.  By providing the proposed loans to the local SBG Subsidiaries, IFC will help expand the Groups operations in the region, enhancing SBGs competitive position and bringing best practices and better access to high quality banking services and products to the respective markets.
Adenia V Project The proposed project is an investment in Adenia Capital (V) L.P., a Mauritius limited partnership (Adenia V or the Fund), which will invest in equity and equity-linked instruments in companies across Africa (the Project). The Fund will invest in companies in financial services, agribusiness, consumer goods, telecom, healthcare and education, business services and hospitality. Adenia V is the successor fund to Adenia Capital (IV), a vintage 2016 fund with 230 million in total commitment, Adenia Capital (III), a 2012 vintage fund with 95.8 million in capital commitments, Adenia Capital (II), a 2007 vintage fund with 37 million in capital commitments and Adenia Capital I, a 2003 vintage fund with 10 million in capital commitments. Expected development impact through:
(i) job creation, improved job quality and diversity, and economic growth;
(ii) at investee company level, implementing best practice corporate governance and social and
environmental standards; and
(iii) supporting regional integration by investing in companies expanding into neighboring countries.
Alta Semper Ilera Fund I Limited The proposed project consists of an equity investment of up to US$15.5 million in Alta Semper Ilera Fund I, L.P. (Alta Semper or the Fund), a 10-year private equity fund targeting to raise US$250 million. The Fund will obtain controlling stakes in leading healthcare and consumer companies by way of equity investments. The Fund will have a pan-African focus and make equity investments of between US$10 and US$50 million per transaction. Project Outcomes
- Stakeholders: Access to growth capital for fund investees. The Fund will provide access to growth capital companies in Africa. The Fund will mobilize additional capital through co-investments.
- Stakeholders: Increased Investee Growth. The Manager is expected to add value to companies through various strategies such as institutionalization of family businesses, restructuring, operational improvements, governance and financial engineering, to generate economies of scale.
- Stakeholders: Access to higher quality health services for customers/patients. Africa has large unmet demand for quality healthcare, which the Fund aims to address.

Contribution to Market Creation:
- Competitiveness: Increased PE Market Activity. IFC anticipates the Fund, through an increase in PE investment levels, will improve competitiveness by demonstrating the viability and growth potential of
companies targeting the rising middle class in Africa and sectors benefitting from its growth.
MKOPA debt Project The proposed project consists of (i) a senior secured loan of up to US$50 million (in USD or KES equivalent) to M-KOPA Kenya Limited and (ii) a senior secured loan of up to US$15 million (in UGX equivalent) to M-KOPA Uganda Limited. The project is expected to be supported by the IDA19 IFC-MIGA Private Sector Window Local Currency Facility (IDA-PSW LCF) as described in the Blended Finance Section. The Facility will have a sustainability-linked margin adjustment upon the achievement of agreed upon KPIs. The most significant, expected project-level outcome is increased access to finance and improved affordability of smartphones including for underserved segments in Kenya and Uganda. Beyond the project, IFC anticipates that the investment will promote greater market inclusiveness in Sub Saharan Africa by demonstrating the viability of a business model providing access to smartphones for underserved segments such as low-income individuals and women.
GWFP ETG SCB IV The proposed project involves the second renewal of the existing syndicated funded risk sharing facility with Standard Chartered Bank (the Bank or SCB) for a trade finance facility of US$250 million to support ETC Group (ETG) agri commodity traders import of fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa and export of cash and food grains, storage. IFCs investment amount will be up to US$10 million.   The Project will support the import, storage and sales of fertilizers in SSA countries such as Benin, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, and export of agri commodities. Commodities financed by the project are bought from mostly smallholder farmers in SSA and sold to wholesalers, cooperatives, NGOs and governments in various IDA countries and into the international market.              This project is linked to GWFP ETG SCB III   https://disclosures.ifc.org/#/projectDetail/SII/42889 The renewed facility is expected to continue having the following development impacts: (i) support of commodity trade finance for importers/exporters in emerging markets; (ii) increased access to trade finance for critical commodities, especially in the agro-commodity sector in emerging market; and (ii) improved market integration by facilitating intra-regional and south-south trade for commodities and enhancing connectivity of real sector firms into value chains
Transform Health Fund The proposed project consists in the establishment of the Transform Health Fund (THF or the Fund), a high impact healthcare focused debt fund. THF will seek to provide growth financing to and scale innovative care delivery models and supply chain businesses in the healthcare sector in Africa to achieve public health goals and improve resilience of the health infrastructure in the continent The project will promote access to growth capital for Fund investees in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries. By providing investees with needed financing it will support them to respond to the large gap in the availability of appropriate quality health services and products in these countries. Many of the investees would otherwise face challenges accessing finance. By providing financing to these companies the project will thus expand access to healthcare services and products. Providing support to these companies can be expected to have broader impacts on the markets they operate in and so strengthen these markets competitiveness and resilience.
Coca Cola Sabco Coca-Cola Sabco (Pty) Ltd (CCS), an existing IFC client since 2002, is one of  The Coca-Cola Companys (TCCC) key bottling partners in developing markets in Africa and Asia, having been awarded Anchor Bottler status in 1995. CCS has invited IFC to support its corporate investment program in several frontier countries in Africa and Asia namely Cambodia, Ethiopia, Laos, Mozambique, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. After developing a strong base in South Africa, CCS leveraged on its experience to take over and successfully turn around several Coca-Cola bottling companies in Eastern AfricaEthiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda. Based on this success, CCS was recently granted the opportunity by The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) to acquire underperforming assets in Asia.
EAIF Limited The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Limited (EAIF or the Fund) is a Public Private Partnership able to provide long-term USD or EUR denominated debt or mezzanine finance on commercial terms to finance the construction and development of private infrastructure in 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. 

The Fund was initially structured in 2002 in three tranches with total capitalization of $305 million:

- an equity tranche consisting of $100 million which was contributed by the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG); 
- a subordinated tranche of $85 million, contributed by Development Financial Institutions (DFIs); and 
- a senior tranche of $120 million contributed by DFIs and commercial banks. The senior tranche was refinanced and increased to $180 million in 2006 creating a Fund size of $365 million.

The project entails increasing the size of the Fund from $365 million to $600 million, which EAIF proposes to finance with $50 million of additional equity from PIDG Trust and $185 million of additional debt to be provided by IFC, commercial banks and other DFIs. Globally, infrastructure is central to economic growth, improved living standards, and broader development. Investments in infrastructure projects, such as power, water and transport, have direct impacts on improving quality of life and enabling local economic development.  

In the last 15 years, on average about $10 billion a year has been spent on infrastructure in sub Saharan Africa, of which only about 30% was private sector investment and half of that was in the telecommunications sector. It is widely recognized that in order to achieve a reasonable growth rate Africa should be spending at least $20 billion a year. This additional investment cannot all be funded by the public sector and for this reason emphasis is being placed by the WBG and other donors on developing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).  If the development of a larger number of PPPs is successful, very large amounts of additional long term private sector debt will be required.   The project is another of the building blocks necessary to achieve increased involvement of the private sector in the development of infrastructure projects. Higher private sector financing catalyzed will free public sector capital for investment in other priority sectors.  The project also supports the expansion of a highly successful Fund which has already demonstrated its ability to originate and book commitments for projects in Africa, not only alongside existing DFIs in larger projects, but more recently and increasingly on a sole mandate basis with smaller clients.

The development impact of the project is thus captured in terms of the amount of private investment mobilized into productive infrastructure, the expansion of access to infrastructure made available by project investments, and the quality of those investments and the role of the Fund in extending appropriate environmental and social standards.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security - Kenya Summit Security, U.S. Marshals Service Support USMS Special Agent Security Protection at Global Summit, Nairobi, Kenya
U.S. Department of Justice - Unspecified Training/Conference U.S. Department of Justice - Unspecified Training/Conference; Terrorist Financing and Mony Laundering Course
Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Country Program, Participating Agency Program Agreement - Counterterrorism Administrative and programmatic support for international law enforcement training and prosecutorial assistance training activities
DEA Vetted Unit Support, Kenya DEA Vetted Unit Support, Kenya; Support for DEA Vetted Unit in Kenya
DEA Kenya Vetted Unit DEA Kenya Vetted Unit; Funding provided for training, transportations, and base of operations support for the Kenya Vetted Unit.
Special Investigation Unit (SIU) 99 Basic Course, Kenya Special Investigation Unit (SIU) 99 Basic Course, Kenya; This is a five week course serves as the foundation in fundamental law enforcement practices for newly assigned officers. It is based on the DEA Basic Agent training program and covers a wide range of topics in drug law enforcement.
BTCA: Better than Cash Alliance to advocate for the use, research and technical assistance to advance digital payments
Impact assessment of non-SMC administration in Southern Senegal in 2018 ...to assess the public health impact of not delivering Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention during the malaria transmission season
COVID-19: Permanent Supportive Housing Intervention Evaluation to support evaluation of client outcomes in COVID-driven permanent supportive housing interventions in King County
Typhoid DALYs Assessment to update Global Burden of Disease Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) estimates for typhoid fever based on incremental risk associated with chronic carriage of typhoid and associated complications, including gall bladder cancer.
Bridging grant to multipathogen Environmental Surveillance in Dhaka to develop tools for environmental surveillance and examine its utility as a low-cost infectious disease surveillance method.
UNICEF HQ 'No Regrets' Outbreak Funding to support UNICEF to implement quality and timely outbreak vaccination activities in response to the circulation of vaccine-derived viruses, particularly in the Africa region.
Phase 1a, Multi Centre Vaccine Trial of R21/Matrix M (VAC096) to investigate if an escalating-priming dose vaccine regimen improves the induction of protective antibody responses towards creation of new vaccines against malaria.
UNT/Inspect IR Tuberculosis and Malaria to develop low-cost breath-based diagnostics for diagnosing tuberculosis and malaria in low- and middle-income countries
UnMASC: Uganda Malaria Actionable Surveillance during COVID (UCSF) to leverage Uganda's Malaria Research Centres for enhanced malaria surveillance in the time of COVID-19, to understand how the pandemic is affecting malaria transmission and treatment-seeking
Climate, Costs and Urban Sanitation (C-CUS) to develop and promote new tools which can be used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in urban sanitation in the context of ongoing climate change
Support for UN Women and the Generation Equality Forum to strengthen UN Women's capacity to lead the Generation Equality Forum, alongside France and Mexico, in order to mark the 25th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Women, as well as to accelerate momentum and new commitments on gender
USAID Development Innovations Ventures WSH Collaboration to support a collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the identification, testing, and sustained uptake of evidence-based approaches to delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services to the poor
Phase 2 Investment: High-throughput qPCR for DeWorm3 to assess the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths following mass-drug administration, using a novel high-throughput quantitative polymerase chain reaction protocol
Tipping Point: Using social network theory to accelerate scale and impact to generate evidence on use of social network-based approaches to accelerate scale and impact of social and behavior change family planning interventions
Drakenstein Child Lung Health Study: Investigate the incidence... to support a longitudinal cohort study of children  evaluating the number, severity, and etiology of respiratory disease, and evaluate the potential effect modifiers that may influence the incidence and severity of acute lower respiratory i
African Investigative Journalism Conference to support a track dedicated to health and development  at the Africa Investigative Journalism Conference 2022
UNFPA/Gates Foundation Catalytic Leadership Investment to support UNFPA's leadership in the scaling of high impact family planning and maternal, newborn health interventions
GIISER - Uganda to connect local pathogen genomic surveillance to improved local immunological assessments and antibody discovery
Measuring Impact of NPIs in COVID Response to explore understanding the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the transmission of SARS-COV2
UNICEF outbreak funding for polio outbreak campaigns and surge support to end the circulation of vaccine-derived polioviruses through timely and quality vaccination campaigns