Business Plan

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Overview

The business plan for Africa Private Sector Development (AFTPS) includes four components:

bullet   Diagnostics
bullet    Lending Operations
bullet    Partnerships
bullet    Monitoring and Evaluation.

Diagnostics

One of the steps in identifying drivers of growth in Africa involves the diagnosis of country-specific constraints to growth which will lead to growth-oriented policy. The diagnosis is conducted through investment climate assessments, value chain analyses, skills assessments, investor perception studies, and entry point sector studies.

Lending Operations

The lending operations component of the business plan involves:

	Supporting the Growth Poles approach targeting entry points with multiple reforms (hard and soft infrastructure) across several sectors and targeting Doing Business Indicators (pdf)
	Supporting policy reform including investment climate components within multisectoral operations and poverty reduction credits
	Supporting mcro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) growth via (i) access to financial services; (ii) access to business development services, including strengthening inter-firm linkages (both domestic and foreign) and access to information; and (iii) improvements in the business environment.
	Supporting the Development Market Place which is direct intervention to private entrepreneurs via competitive awards.
	Nurturing indigenous private sector via matching grants to develop skills and capabilities
	Promoting privatization and public-private partnerships (PPP).

Partnerships

Partnerships are in integral part of the Africa Private Sector Development business plan and include the following activities:

	Investment Climate Surveys Global roll out: partnership with the World Bank's Private Sector Development as well as the Africa Development Bank (AdB) and targeted donors (U.K. France, the Netherlands, Norway) as well as business associations (i.e. CIAN, French council of investors in AFR, PIA Private Investors for Africa,etc). The analytical work is conducted with African partners
	Privatization and PPP to enable the private sector to participate in infrastructure using private financing and capacity
	Investor Councils: Partnering with local businesses and governments in vetting and prioritization of policies
	MSME program: collaboration with International Finance Corporate, MIGA and FIAS.
	Development Market Place: partnering with donors for awards
	Leveraging private sector capacity to implement government programs such as HIV/AIDS.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation functions of the business plan include:

	Measuring the impact of policy reform at the firm level through systematic data collection using the Investment Climate survey global rollout as well as rapid IC surveys for interim monitoring
	Assessing the status of Infrastructure
	Assessing the investor councils
	Monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of the portfolio to ensure adequate targeting of interventions to small, domestic firms
	Monitoring Doing Business Indicators (pdf).

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