FCA Investments

22/03/2023

Exciting opportunity for SMES from 🇰🇪 Kenya, 🇸🇴 Somalia & 🇺🇬 Uganda looking for investment!

Join us to learn about the field of impact investing and how growth-oriented and impact-driven SMEs can access funds from FCA Investments. Don't miss it:

🗓️ 29 March 2023
🕒 3 pm CET
🔗Register now: http://bit.ly/4004JEL

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30/08/2021

We still have a long way to go to achieve the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), and no doubt, Impact-Investment has a significant role to play in that regard. FCAI believes in providing capital and technical assistance to responsible and impactful SMEs in underserved markets and fragile countries as a means to bridging the SDG financing gap, and eventually, leaving no one behind. To know more about our activities, please, find our latest Impact Report.
https://www.fcainvestments.fi/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/FCAI-Impact-Report-2020_accessible.pdf

12/04/2021

FCAI is co-organizing with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the Governments of Finland and Malawi an official side-event to ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum on 13 April. Further panelists – Accenture and Ugandan Federation of SMEs and an SME from Somalia, SolarLandAfrica – are all invited as panelists by FCAI. The side-event discusses supporting SME-ecosystems in the least Developed Countries (LDC's) with a focus on contributing towards the LDC V summit next year. Stay tuned!

Side-event to 2021 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development The least developed countries’ (LDCs) advancing towards sustainable development requires sustainable, locally-rooted solutions. The importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for LDC economies has been noted in several studi...

13/10/2020

We are pleased to share with you our Impact Report for 2019. The report aims to provide a glimpse of our contribution towards addressing the missing middle challenge and supporting economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable SMEs in developing countries. Click on the link below to access the full report.

24/08/2019

When the power of finance is channeled toward sustainable development, some objectives that may sound unreachable will become reality. Stay tuned for FCAI’s participation in NEABEC discussing the opportunities to invest in Scalable SMEs in East Africa.

28/06/2019

FCA Investments commits 4 million euros to Yield Fund in its second investment, targeting agriculture-related businesses in Uganda. The fund will benefit the Ugandan economy by improving an estimated 100,000 rural household livelihoods, and increasing access to markets for an estimated 26,000 farmers.

Finn Church Aid founded the company FCA Investments Ltd to boost job creation in developing and fragile countries. Its second investment targets the agriculture sector in Uganda.

22/01/2019

While 16 out of the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) tell us WHAT should be done, there is only one tells us "HOW" which is: Partnerships for the goals.
Alfredo Moreno, Minister of Social Development from Chile

02/01/2019

Impact Investing is a combination of the Core of Philanthropy and Traditional Investing, it is a revolution towards more responsible financial interventions to tackle the social and environmental challenges at a global scale.

Can Impact Investing help us to save the world? Read this article to learn about some of the concepts, people and companies that believe it can. Make your own assessment and share the knowledge with others that can benefit from it.

09/12/2018

Job Creation within the Fragile States is not just about making a living, it is about making a better life.

09/11/2018

The Impact-Investing experience in the Least Developed Countries (LDC's) and in the Fragile States (FS's) shows that partnerships flourish at the expense of competition – this potential, however, remains underused at both the local and the international levels.
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31/10/2018

In Africa, the poor linkages between social enterprises, investors and innovation networks is one of the main challenges for the prosperity of the SMEs especially in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Fragile States (FSs), in that context, FCA Investments works to utilize the cutting-edge technologies in Fintech world and the available platforms to connect the target SMEs with the relevant solution-providers whether they are Investors or Technical Assistance Providers.
Nonetheless, when it comes to the impact-investment in the LDCs, this is the right time to move forward according to IFC. The available momentum nowadays was not available a decade ago. The force and the pressure to improve the economic situation and to develop the SMEs are getting bigger. In contrast, the failure rate of the impact investments in Africa is relatively high, therefore, new investment tools and mechanisms combined with Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Supports would be the optimal combination to drive and achieve the expected outcomes.