INVESTMENT READINESS SPECIALIST
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund
The AECF is a development institution which supports businesses to innovate, create jobs, leverage investments and markets to create resilience and sustainable incomes in rural and marginalized communities in Africa. Launched in 2008, the AECF has so far supported 268 companies in 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa across 40 value chains in our focal sectors of agribusiness and renewable energy.
In delivering on the strategy, AECF, through the Investments Advisory Services (IAS) department provides value addition support to AECF investee companies in Africa to accelerate their business growth, sustainability, and impact delivery. AECF works with the investee companies to identify both business capacity and capital gaps through conducting business diagnostics, prioritizing of capacity and capital needs and planning for delivery of services that will increase business performance, resilience, and delivery of social impact. Based on the emerging priority needs of our investees, key advisory services have been categorized under strategy & strategic management; financial management; marketing, distribution & customer service; leadership and organization development; production and operations; integration of environmental and social management; and investment readiness & facilitation.