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What We Offer

Deal support

  • Investor readiness support across financial analysis, modeling, marketing materials, business planning and other transaction support
  • Market studies covering commercial gaps in data and strategic issues in the region
  • Development impact improvement support across climate and environment issues, gender and social safeguarding, governance and impact measurement

Sector support

  • Public sector technical assistance to government and IPAs capacity and to developing policy at manufacturing sector levels
  • Sector wide strategic transformation studies to help develop and transform selected manufacturing sectors with significant development impact

Latest News

MA Articles
July 10, 2025

Chilli sauce firm lands £11m Belgium deal with UK government help

Natt Boarer (left) Stephanie Kayirangwa founders of Chilli Mash © The Times     Highlights from an article based on a Manufacturing Africa programme’s beneficiary company published in Britain’s The…
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June 9, 2025

The Opportunity for Alternate Proteins in sub-Saharan Africa

The global novel alternate protein market is expected to grow from USD ~20-30 billion in 2024, to USD ~50 -100 billion by 2035. While the market has underperformed historic growth…
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December 11, 2024

Developing Africa’s Chocolate Industry

Developing Africa's Chocolate Industry - Image rights reserved ©Hill Country Chocolate Africa produces 75% of the world's cocoa. In recent years, competition from cocoa producers in Asia Pacific and Latin…
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Manufacturing Africa programme is supporting the sustainable growth of the manufacturing sector in Africa

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Facts & Figures

Deals supported

or in progress

220+

Deals reached

financial close

52

FDI

Supported (GBP 2 billion)

$2.4 Billion

Jobs

commited

110,000

(last updated in June 2025)

Ethiopia
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Rwanda
Nigeria
Senegal

Companies Assisted to Secure Investment

Investors Supported by MA

Our Priority Areas

Green

manufacturing

As part of the UK Government’s commitment to meeting internationally agreed targets on greenhouse gas emissions, climate and…

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Global health and

vaccine manufacturing

Pharmaceuticals is a strategic sector that has gained even more importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Less than 5% of pharmaceutical…

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Food security and

agri-processing

Smallholder farmers make up about 60% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population and agriculture accounts for approximately 23% of its GDP.

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