Corporate Advisory.

Our team has vast experience in strengthening the resilience of Corporate, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Small Scale Farmers and communities.

We have conducted assessments of existing financial products, identified financing gaps, provided support in structuring financing products, and developing financing and co-financing strategies for international development organisations such as GIZ, UNDP and Red Cross. These assessments were conducted through community consultations and  collaborations with central, regional and local level government structures.

Our team has sector specific expertise in the following areas:

  • Investment Funds Development and setting-up;

  • Enterprise Development:  Access to finance, gender finance, mobile banking, financial literacy and agent banking;

  • Public and private pension funds development;

  • Grants development and management;

  • Socio Economic Development/Impact Assessment;

  • Social security systems;

  • Energy;

  • Blue Economy;

  • Local Economic Development;

  • Banking Regulations;

  • Risk and Compliance;

  • Hedge funds; and

  • Community Development.

Other business and organisational management areas that our team render services in include the following:

  • Strategic plans, development of operational policies and procedures,

  • Optimisation of the internal control environment,

  • Financial modelling,

  • Business process optimisation reviews,

  • System implementation assurance reviews,

  • Market entry strategy,

  • Establishment of private pension and medical aid funds,

  • Policy development;

  • Research, Development and Design of Business Processes; and

  • Project development, implementation, monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

 

In the funding space, the BFS team has conducted assessments, conceptualised and developed nine (9) market responsive funding products for SMEs in Sub Saharan Africa; namely:

  1. The Namibia Procurement Fund I: A debt fund which had the largest assets under Management in the Namibia for SME finance over the past decade

  2. The Namibia Procurement Fund II: An SME focused Debt finance for Namibia

  3. Fundo de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Empresarial: An SME focused Equity Fund for Mozambique

  4. Local Content Enterprise Fund: An SME focused Debt finance for Mozambique

  5. Kula Capital Africa Fund: An Equity Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa market

  6. Kula Financial Solutions Africa/Africa Procurement Fund: A bridge financing product for Sub Saharan Africa

  7. Omukwa Venture Capital Fund:  A public sponsored VC Fund for the Development Bank of Namibia and Bank of Namibia (Financial Inclusion Council Advisory Body) – targeting SMEs in Namibia

  8. Catalytic Biomass Fund: A sector specific Fund for SMEs in the biomass Sector of Namibia

  9. Kula Capital Namibia: A venture capital impact investment Fund for SMEs in Namibia