PROSSEV Burkina Faso

• Promote solar installations for productive use for companies with high potential for job creation in Burkina Faso by facilitating their access to finance.
• To encourage job creation by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)/Small and Medium-sized Industries (SMIs) that are beneficiaries of the project and that have the ambition to green their production processes and systems.
• Facilitate the installation of quality solar systems that relieve contractors from power outages and stabilize their economic activities by providing reliable energy.

The project is intended for private companies operating in the Centre region and the Haut-Bassins region of Burkina Faso. The capitals of these regions are Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso respectively. All companies active in urban and rural areas of these 2 regions are targeted.

The final beneficiaries of this financing are private companies (SMEs/SMIs) whose ambition is to promote and finance the installation of solar technological equipment for productive use in order to green and optimize their production systems. These companies must be able to demonstrate that the greening of their production units can lead to the creation of jobs in their value chains. Target companies must operate, but are not limited to, in one or more of the following agricultural and agribusiness sectors and value chains:

• Value chains of non-timber forest products (shea, desert date palm, locust bean, moringa, tamarind, baobab, honey and its derivatives, etc.);
• Fisheries production and processing;
• Mango Value Chain;
• Rice value chain;
• Market gardening value chain;
• Livestock, poultry and other livestock products value chain;
• Oil palm value chain;
• Waste recovery;
• Cotton value chain.

The technical assistance offer includes:

• Provision of targeted technical assistance to beneficiary companies. This technical support is mainly intended for SMEs/SMIs under contract under this project, and which would present gaps in one or more sectors of their activities. The goal is to fill these operational gaps and make these companies more efficient in order to achieve the impact objectives set.
• Cross-company learning in portfolio companies through open-source networks, industry associations, and other instruments. This learning also involves a workshop to connect and share experiences between all the companies in the portfolio

Quantitatively, the project essentially aims to achieve at least the following results:

• • 25 private companies (SMEs/SMIs) whose facilities are subsidized.
  • 5 companies installing solar systems and productive solar technologies are qualified to carry out the various installations of the project.
  • 175 new direct and indirect jobs created by companies and across their value chains.

The AECF does not ask for any sort of payment at any point in the application process.