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BWP 500-$500K
The National Small Business Development Corporation opportunity in Botswana provides business financing, including loans for agribusiness, property and manufacturing, services, structured finance, trade finance, and micro-enterprise support. It also includes subsidized micro-enterprise loans under Mabogo-Dinku, as well as trade finance products such as invoice discounting, factoring, performance bonds, and guarantees. In addition to capital, applicants can access training, mentoring, and business support services. The listed typical ticket size is BWP 500-$500K, and the geographic focus is Botswana.
Loans
CEDA offers loans across agribusiness, property and manufacturing, services, structured finance, trade finance, and micro-enterprise support.
Subsidized micro-enterprise loans
Mabogo-Dinku provides subsidized loans for various micro-entrepreneurs, including working capital and small asset finance.
Trade finance facilities
CEDA offers invoice discounting, factoring, performance bonds, suppliers guarantees, bank guarantees and other credit guarantees.
Training and mentoring
CEDA provides entrepreneurship development through funding, training and mentoring, including hand-holding services for business-related functions such as marketing management.
Agribusiness
Focuses on financial sustainability through the development of viable agricultural businesses and adding value to the agriculture industry to address poverty and unemployment.
Property and Manufacturing
Offers loans toward development or acquisition of commercial/industrial real estate and setting up or buying existing manufacturing enterprises.
Services
Services is listed as one of CEDA's product and service areas.
Structured Finance
Supports financially viable and sustainable business propositions with positive developmental impact from a socio-economic perspective.
Trade Finance
Provides trade finance facilities across product offerings such as invoice discounting, factoring, guarantees and bonds.
Botswana-based small businesses
Mentorship, network, sector expertise
Check current fund status and deployment activity
Applicants should match their business clearly to one of the listed funding areas such as agribusiness, manufacturing, services, or trade finance. If applying for micro-enterprise support, highlight working capital or small asset needs where relevant. Since training and mentoring are part of the offer, it may help to show where your business also needs operational support such as marketing management.
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