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SUGUBA is a disruptive platform launched with the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) as the anchor investor. Suguba means Big Marketplace in Mande, a group of local languages spoken across West Africa. SUGUBA is a disruptive platform providing both “hardware” (office & events spaces) and “software” (TA and BDS programs) to “missing middle"​ entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs. SUGUBA is focused on enterprises run by youth and women. SUGUBA is fostering regional integration and regional trade in Francophone West Africa. SUGUBA's vision is to become the first sustainable, regionally connected network of locally run communities, workspaces and programs that support and scale the impact of SMEs and entrepreneurs across Francophone West Africa.

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The African Development Bank Group’s mission is to help reduce poverty, improve living conditions for Africans and mobilize resources for the continent’s economic and social development. With this objective in mind, the institution aims at assisting African countries – individually and collectively - in their efforts to achieve sustainable economic development and social progress. Combating poverty is at the heart of the continent’s efforts to attain sustainable economic growth. To this end, the Bank seeks to stimulate and mobilize internal and external resources to promote investments as well as provide its regional member countries with technical and financial assistance.

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United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) mobilizes and catalyses an increase in capital flows for impactful investments in high-risk markets, especially in Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States and countries in special situations. By crowding in capital through the deployment of risk-absorbing financial instruments, mechanisms and structuring advisory, UNCDF contributes to job creation, sustained economic growth and equitable prosperity in more than 70 countries. In partnership with UN entities and development partners, UNCDF operates with speed and agility to deliver scalable, blended finance solutions to drive systemic change and pave the way for commercial finance and scale up by development finance institutions and multilateral development banks.

SUGUBA is a disruptive platform launched with the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) as the anchor investor. Suguba means Big Marketplace in Mande, a group of local languages spoken across West Africa. SUGUBA is a disruptive platform providing both “hardware” (office & events spaces) and “software” (TA and BDS programs) to “missing middle"​ entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs. SUGUBA is focused on enterprises run by youth and women. SUGUBA is fostering regional integration and regional trade in Francophone West Africa. SUGUBA's vision is to become the first sustainable, regionally connected network of locally run communities, workspaces and programs that support and scale the impact of SMEs and entrepreneurs across Francophone West Africa.