Elevate Your Enterprise: Join the SAIRF Program and Bridge the Missing Middle!

Are you a high-growth Small or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) in sub-Saharan Africa with solutions that can drive agricultural progress and strengthen climate resilience?

You sit in the “Missing Middle”—too big for microfinance, yet too small or risky for traditional capital, facing a staggering $106 billion financing gap in the agri-SME sector. This structural challenge slows your growth, compromises food security, and hinders climate adaptation efforts.

Sahel Capital’s Sahel Agri Investment Readiness Facility (SAIRF) is your solution. We are designed to propel high-growth companies like yours past these obstacles and into a new phase of accelerated, consolidated growth.

Why Apply to the SAIRF Program?

Consolidate High Growth & Unlock Capital: We help you address the structural, operational, and credit readiness challenges that currently bar you from securing larger, follow-on investments. SAIRF provides the essential customized capacity-building and strategic support needed to become highly attractive to a wider range of investors, including potential follow-up funding from SEFAA.

Champion Climate Resilience & Agri-Infrastructure: Your business is critical to the future of African agriculture. If your solution addresses agri-infrastructure or offers innovative climate adaptation measures, SAIRF will provide the de-risked capital via repayable notes to scale your impact and bolster the region’s resilience against climate shocks.

Join an Elite Ecosystem: Become part of a network of successful agri-leaders across the continent. By strengthening your enterprise, you will directly benefit smallholder farmers, particularly women and youth, driving inclusive economic growth and food security.
Stop navigating the funding gap alone. Secure the investment readiness, operational excellence, and climate-focused capital needed to move from the Missing Middle to market leader.

APPLY NOW and let the SAIRF program transform your growth potential into continental impact!