About Us
Who We Are
The USAID Southern Africa Mobilizing Investment project is a five-year project addressing a spectrum of funding gaps in Southern Africa’s investment ecosystem, with the aim of catalyzing private capital into sectors that can increase employment, decrease poverty, and reduce inequality within the Southern African region..
We use a combination of technical assistance and catalytic grant funding to mobilize private sector investment into high-growth sectors, and to strengthen the skills, relationships, and information flows necessary to change market behavior with the goal of creating a more dynamic and sustainable investment ecosystem.
What We Do
The USAID Mobilizing Investment project allows the U.S. Government to work closely with the private sector to shape activities that unlock business opportunities, particularly those that drive trade and investment into and out of African markets. USAID Mobilizing Investment will address the spectrum of funding gaps in Southern Africa’s investment ecosystem by working through and with local market system actors on four primary components:
Component 1: Mobilizing Catalytic Capital to Underserved Markets
Component 2: Capacity Development for Emerging Fund Managers.
Component 3: Provide Efficient Transactional Support Services Supporting Bankable Investment Opportunities.
Component 4: Facilitating connections between U.S. and international investors with Southern Africa fund managers and investment opportunities.
Anticipated Results
Southern Africa will become an increasingly appealing regional investment focus, attracting and deploying more capital to underpin robust economic growth in a dynamic market economy.
Skilled-up fund managers will be more successful at raising and deploying capital, managing portfolios, and creating wealth.
Investor confidence will grow, mobilizing capital, facilitating deal flow and enabling Southern African economy to flourish.
More investment will flow into Southern Africa, fueling economic growth.
