This is a Risk Participation Agreement with Standard Chartered Bank where CDC shares SCB’s exposures to identified underlying borrowers in the form of short to medium-term working capital financing and term loans in Sierra Leone. Sectors involved include oil and gas, telecoms, manufacturing, logistics and agribusiness. The aim of the RPA is to support economic recovery in the country following the Ebola crisis.

Website:

https://www.sc.com/en/

SEWA Grih Rin, based in New Delhi, is a start-up affordable housing finance company set up by the Self Employed Women’s Association. It aims to provide funding to women in lower income categories.

Website:

https://www.sgrlimited.in/

Shubham Housing Development Finance Company Limited (Shubham) is a specialist mortgage lender that provides home loans to lower-income families and emerging consumers across India.

Website:

https://shubham.co/

The Sirajganj 4 Power Project is a greenfield dual-fuel combined-cycle power plant in the Sirajganj district of Bangladesh.

The power plant will be developed by Sembcorp North-West Power Company, a joint venture between Singapore-based Sembcorp Utilities and Bangladesh’s state-owned North-West Power Generation Company.

Website:

https://www.sembcorp.com/

Website:

https://www.skyerenewables.com/

“Bizongo” (Smartpaddle Technology Pvt Ltd) is India’s largest integrated B2B platform focused on packaging and unbranded consumables, bringing the highly fragmented manufacturing market of SMEs into a digital supply chain.

Website:

https://www.bizongo.com/

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking is a multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1895, SMBC offers a broad range of services such as banking, credit card, leasing, investment securities, and other financial services to small and middle-market companies.

Website:

https://www.smbcgroup.com/

Website:

https://www.societegenerale.com/en

Sonatel is the leading telecommunications player across the West African market, with operations across Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Sierra Leone. Sonatel provides a wide range of telecommunications services, including fixed and wireless broadband, mobile data, fixed line voice services and mobile money.

Website:

https://www.orange.sn/

TI Clean Mobility is an Indian based electric vehicle company engaged in the manufacturing of electric three wheelers. GEF III invested $50m in this round, BII coinvested $15m alongside GEF III in this round.

Website:

https://tiindia.com/ti-clean-mobility-private-limited/

South Asia Growth Invest Holdings is the co-investment pooling investment vehicle funded by BII and GEF South Asia Growth Fund II to invest in Hero Motors, an Indian-headquartered manufacturer of components (incl. gears and transmissions) for electric bicycles and electric motorbikes.

Website:

https://www.heromotors.com/

The Nubian Suns projects comprise 13 solar power plants located in the Benban Solar Park, near Aswan in Egypt. These plants will add a 590 megawatt (MW) capacity to the park.

SP Energy (Egypt) SAE is one of these plants, with a 5oMW capacity.

The projects are funded by a syndicate of lenders led by the IFC.

When complete, Benban will be the largest solar power installation in the world with up to 1.65GW capacity and 32 solar plants.

Nubian Suns play a central part in round 2 of the Egypt Feed-In Tariff solar power programme which is introducing international investors and banks to Egypt at a crucial time for the country.

The Egyptian government launched this large-scale initiative in 2015 and has offered strong support for the Nubian Suns projects.

Website:

https://www.ctgi.cn/ctgi/index.html

Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC is a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC and member of the Standard Bank Group.

Website:

www.stanbicibtcbank.com

The Standard Bank of Malawi (SBM), previously known as the Commercial Bank of Malawi, is one of the country’s national banks. It has 19 branches across Malawi and a workforce of 600.

The bank began life in 1969 and after several changes – including an IPO – Standard Bank became the majority shareholder in 2001.

Website:

https://www.standardbank.co.mw/

Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered plc. It is the oldest and largest international bank in Pakistan

Website:

https://www.sc.com/pk/about-us/

Standard Chartered plc is a British multinational bank with operations in consumer, corporate and institutional banking, and treasury services.

Website:

https://www.sc.com/en/

The facility will support new working capital lending to businesses in Sierra Leone so that they can continue to operate, to meet their day-to-day finance needs and to enable them to scale up their operations to supply consumer goods to affected areas.