Namibia, SDG Impact Investment Facility, Fund Management Services SDG Impact Fac

Introduction

The Government Namibia is implementing the Private Sector Development Project (PSDP) that aims to strengthen the private sector’s ability to serve as the engine of economic growth. The Ministry of Industrialization and Trade alongside UNDP Namibia established the SDG Impact Fund (SDGIIF) in 2019, with the aim of turning local small medium enterprises into potential suppliers for local and regional value chains, while aggregately contributing to social impact. The fund was created as a multi-stakeholder financial and capacity building platform that bridges entrepreneurship, social innovation, and blended capital to create sustainable economic and social returns. 

SCOPE 

The SDGIIF aims to achieve the following objectives.

 To develop and enhance the productive capacity of MSMEs.

 To sustainably scale MSMEs and strengthen local, sub-regional and

regional value chains for the regional continent and global market.

 To create a conducive entrepreneurial ecosystem.

 To actively promote innovation and participation of women, persons with

disabilities and youth owned businesses.

Prioritizing support to MSMEs that will have a catalytic impact in addressing development challenges in the country through strengthening the local economy, improving livelihoods, creating decent jobs, and building equitable communities.

Since its inception the fund has evolved into a blended financing facility that utilizes public and philanthropic resources to de-risk private sector investment to fulfilling its objects.

Therefore, the SDGIIF represents.

SDG Impact Facility: which is a blended financing platform is designed as with a revolving fund structure as gap financing measure to be a self-replenishing pool of money, utilizing interest and principal payments on old loans to issue new ones.

AND 

the SDG Impact Investment endowment Fund that is designed as a pool of philanthropic and public resources used to de-risk MSMEs, thus strengthening their commercial viability, and enhancing risk-adjusted returns for investors.

The facility and the fund work alongside each as a catalytic blended finance instrument, mobilizing follow-on commercial investment from impact investors and other private investors, who would otherwise find their risk-return profiles of  MSMEs unacceptable.

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