{"id":8712,"date":"2022-04-07T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinergiburkina.com\/sinergi-burkina-lance-le-ffs-pme\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:52:20","slug":"sinergi-burkina-launches-the-ffs-pme-to-facilitate-access-to-structuring-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/sinergi-burkina-launches-the-ffs-pme-to-facilitate-access-to-structuring-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinergi Burkina launches the FFS-PME to facilitate access to structuring financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinergi Burkina, the first impact investment fund in Burkina Faso, launched in January 2022 the Facilitation of Access to Structured Finance for Burkinabe SMEs (FFS-PME) project, in partnership with the West Africa Trade and Investment Hub.<\/p>\n<p>Financed to the tune of $1 million, the project aims to facilitate access to structuring financing for a greater number of small and medium-sized enterprises, which are true levers of economic and social development. More specifically, the project will make it possible to :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase access to financing for SMEs by catalyzing more than 7 times the Trade Hub&#8217;s co-financing in order to mobilize more than CFAF 4 billion for the benefit of SMEs in Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Contribute to the creation of more than 400 decent direct jobs and more than 600 decent and sustainable indirect jobs, 50% of which are for young people and 50% for women<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen the post-investment capacities of SMEs through technical assistance to companies<\/li>\n<li>Secure and increase the income of at least 2000 small producers, beneficiaries, breeders and\/or input suppliers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the Director of Sinergi Burkina, Mr. Job ZONGO, this partnership, which is expected to last until May 2024, is a real asset for the development and promotion of private equity in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8684 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/logo-WATIH-002-300x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/logo-WATIH-002-300x151.png 300w, http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/logo-WATIH-002.png 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8698 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/logo-USAID-002-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"60\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8700 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Sinergi-Burkina.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The USAID-funded West Africa Trade &amp; Investment Hub (Trade Hub) is a 5-year, $140 million trade and investment facilitation activity designed to improve private sector productivity, profitability, and competitiveness in West Africa through market-based approaches. <a href=\"https:\/\/westafricatradehub.com\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinergi Burkina, the first impact investment fund in Burkina Faso, launched in January 2022 the Facilitation of Access to Structured Finance for Burkinabe SMEs (FFS-PME) project, in partnership with the West Africa Trade and Investment Hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerecapital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}