Collaborative for Frontier Finance

The Collaborative for Frontier Finance is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to increase access to capital for small and growing businesses in emerging markets. To achieve a sustainable and growing small business finance ecosystem in Africa and beyond by addressing the “missing middle” financing gap. We do this by supporting and enabling local capital providers to accelerate financing solutions that target small and growing businesses in frontier markets.

We work with diverse stakeholders – including fund managers, funders, and fieldbuilders – to accelerate financing solutions that target SGBs. We aim to set a common action agenda for SGB finance; to test and scale promising financing models; and to facilitate the flow of capital to the SGB market. With a bias to action, CFF works with stakeholders to identify, co-design and launch initiatives – or specific solutions that table SGB financing challenges - that are too complex for any one stakeholder to launch on their own.