The problem
You have the mandate. You have the capital.
What is missing is files you can put in front of an investment committee: demonstrated additionality, a defensible financial model, an environmental and social management plan compliant with the Performance Standards. Your teams spend their time rewriting what the sponsor should have produced — and disbursements slip from one financial year to the next.
140 Md $
commitment capacity for the US DFC alone
US DFC
+40 %
increase in Proparco commitments in 2024
Proparco · 2024
51 Md $
committed by China at FOCAC 2024
FOCAC · 2024
The principle
Your institution pays nothing
File preparation does not come out of your budget: the sponsor funds its own preparation — exactly the logic of international project preparation. Your institution receives a compliant file without having committed a single euro of technical assistance.
When your institution wishes to fund preparation directly — because the sponsor cannot afford it and the project deserves to exist — a technical assistance mechanism allows it, under your explicit mandate.
What we operate
From concept note to annual review
Investment-committee-ready file
Concept note, full proposal, Performance Standards-compliant ESMP, additionality note — bilingual where needed.
Post-disbursement monitoring
ESMP compliance reports, impact monitoring, annual review — to your institution's exact standards, without you having to chase.
Technical assistance window
The mechanism by which your institution directly funds the preparation of a project it wants to see exist.
Deployment of your SME lines and guarantees
A credit line or portfolio guarantee only produces impact if the partner bank can originate and appraise bankable SME files. That is where they stall, and that is the work we do on the ground — without consuming your technical assistance budget.
How we work
We read your criteria
Country mandate, eligible sectors, ticket thresholds, additionality requirements, environmental category. Screening happens before, not during your appraisal.
We pre-appraise
The file reaches you in the format your committee expects — not an entrepreneur's business plan, an institutional file.
We stay on the ground
Local presence in the CEMAC zone: execution monitoring, alert detection, interface with authorities. You are not flying blind from Paris or Washington.
Our reference frameworks
For an institution, a signature commits. The firm, its team, its working standards and its mandates are documented — due diligence runs on us too.
See the firm →Institutional questions
What institutions ask us
The Letter
The Letter — development finance edition
Our analyses reserved for institutions: origination quality, the real reasons deals die in committee, and what blended finance actually allows in the CEMAC zone. Addressed to a small circle of executives.
Talk to the firm →The Letter is received by invitation: we choose its readership. Write to us if you would like to discuss it.
Discuss a co-appraisal mandate
Tell us your country mandate, your thresholds and your sectors. In thirty minutes we will tell you what we can source.
White paper · Inaugural edition
The Bankability Barometer
The first measure, in the OHADA space, of the gap between what a company is worth and what its file can prove. Full methodology, 2026 landscape, and the protocol for the first data-backed edition. Public document.