Commercial Returns, Development Impact

Integral to SDG philosophy and operations is collaboration with a wide range of partners in order to achieve economic growth and development impact in Africa. SDG will build on strategic relationships to add value to investee FIs and to realize sustainable impact on financial inclusion, SME development and affordable housing. Learn more about How We Work.

•  We recruit high calibre professionals with extensive banking experience in Africa to build strong local management teams and boards.
  
  
•  We draw on technical experts to build FI capacity in product development, strategic use of ICT, human resource and systems development, marketing, branding, transformation of corporate culture, governance strengthening.
  
  
•  We also link our investee banks to SME support agencies to strengthen their underlying client base of SMEs who may require business development services, linkages to market information, mentoring opportunities and access to other forms of finance.
  
  
•  We work with international financial institutions to help our investees secure short and long-term debt funding, debt guarantees, and other risk mitigation instruments (e.g. currency hedging).
  
  
•  We partner with telecommunications and technology companies so that unbanked markets can be reached with innovative services through alternative distribution channels.
  
  
•  Because the absence of available housing stock is a major barrier to the development of housing finance markets, we partner with low and middle income housing developers and other NGOs to create homes for investee housing finance clients.