Funding your project in Africa
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This course gives you a clearer understanding of the realities of business funding in French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. You will learn how to analyse the various options available, estimate your repayment capacity and choose the form of funding best suited to your project, your timescales and your financial situation.
Overview
What this course covers
Funding your project in Africa is an online UpSkills course in Entrepreneurship & Offer Development, organised into 2 modules, 7 lessons and 1h 4m of content. Each sequence pairs theory with hands-on practice so that what you learn transfers directly to a real professional setting.
By the end of this programme you will be able to understand why access to bank financing remains limited, identify the seven main funding solutions available, build your financial credibility step by step and calculate the Minimum Viable Amount for your project. These skills are built up gradually across the course, consolidating the fundamentals before moving on to more advanced material.
The learning path opens with “Funding your project in Africa” and closes with “Quiz”. The sequence is designed so each module builds on the one before it.
This course is aimed at learners at intermediate level looking to build their skills in Entrepreneurship & Offer Development. It suits both individual upskilling and a company-led development plan, and needs no special software or equipment to follow.
The programme is led by L'équipe d'experts Up Skills; you learn at your own pace, with no fixed schedule, from desktop, tablet or mobile; an UpSkills certificate is issued once you complete the course.
What you'll learn
Key Objectives
Understand why access to bank financing remains limited.
Identify the seven main funding solutions available.
Build your financial credibility step by step.
Calculate the Minimum Viable Amount for your project.
Tell an investment need apart from a cash-flow need.
Apply the rule of thirds.
Choose between a tontine and microcredit.
Spot and prevent the risks of over-indebtedness.
Program
1 module(s)
MODULE 1
Funding your project in Africa
6 elements00. Contents: financing your project in Africa
5 minModule 01. Why financing works differently in Africa
10 minModule 02. The 7 available financing solutions
15 minModule 03. Assessing your real needs before seeking funding
12 minModule 04. Tontine vs microcredit
8 minModule 05. Avoiding over-indebtedness
14 minMODULE 2
Quiz
1 elementQuiz – Financing your project in Africa
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Requirements
Before you start
No specific prerequisites are stated in the document. This course is aimed at entrepreneurs, project leaders, traders and small business managers who want to prepare more effectively for their search for funding.