{"id":10420,"date":"2017-11-30T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T08:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fagace.org\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2024-04-04T14:35:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:35:59","slug":"le-fagace-mise-sur-les-pme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fagace.org\/en\/2017\/11\/30\/le-fagace-mise-sur-les-pme\/","title":{"rendered":"FAGACE FOCUSES ON SMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After forty years of supporting public investment, the Fonds Africain de Garantie et de Coop\u00e9ration \u00c9conomique (FAGACE) is changing tack and now offers to guarantee SME loans. Its Managing Director, Fanta Coulibaly, talks to Jeune Afrique about this change of direction.<\/p>\n<p>After fifteen years in the Ivorian banking sector, Fanta Coulibaly was appointed special advisor to Kaba Nial\u00e9, then Ivorian Minister of Economy and Finance, and then remained for a time advisor to her successor, Adama Kon\u00e9. Since January 2017, she has been head of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/196225\/politique\/le-fagace-sur-le-retour\/\"> the African Guarantee and Economic Cooperation Fund (FAGACE)<\/a>. Created forty years ago and based in Cotonou, Benin, this fund brings together fourteen African states and is looking to a new approach.<\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.1 - 02-04-2023 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fagace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fanta_coulibaly.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fagace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fanta_coulibaly.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.fagace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/fanta_coulibaly-300x150.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeune Afrique: What is FAGACE&#8217;s new strategy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fanta Coulibaly:<\/strong> Fagace was born of the will of fourteen States: the eight UEMOA States, plus the Republic of Congo, Central Africa, Cameroon, Rwanda, Chad and Mauritania.<\/p>\n<p>For forty years, this fund has focused on financing public investment, even though it began to open up to the private sector around ten years ago. 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