Small and medium enterprises are the economic backbone of virtually every economy in the world. They also promote innovation, help deliver goods and services, and can be a powerful force for integrating women and youth into the economic mainstream. Yet despite all these benefits, small enterprises remain significantly underserved by financial and advisory institutions, contributing to the ‘Missing Middle’.

Through our experience in providing advisory services in Africa, we have found that many of these ‘missing middle’ SMEs, as well as youth and women-led SMEs are not able to access funding or specialist advisory services due to lack of funding. This creates a support gap at a critical juncture in their business. We are leveraging support from grant funders and supporters of these missing middles so that the growth hub can provide them with the advice they need to grow.

We assist underserved African agricultural businesses in creating deep, measurable, and scalable impact by promoting long-term economic, governance, environmental, and social aspects in everything we do to bring positive societal and economic benefits to Africa’s agriculture.

Impact measurement and management are at the heart of the growth hub work to transform agribusiness in Africa. We have a responsibility to ensure our work improves our client’s livelihoods. Impact measurement findings help us analyze our results and fine-tune our program to better serve agri- entrepreneurs. To contribute evidence to the broader sector, we will regularly share what we’ve learned.