Post Conflict Window

In response to the start of the South Sudan Window, Sida funded the Post Conflict Window – a programme that sought to provide private sector solutions to countries emerging from longer term conflict. It provided $12.6m in grants to 19 companies in Somaliland, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the DRC, covering a wide range of value chains.  Many of these investments have been highly successful, including cocoa in DRC, microfinance, resins and livestock in Somaliland and fruit juice in Sierra Leone.

Due to the lack of financing in these countries, AECF was able to select some of the best investment opportunities available, leading to the creation or maintenance of 1640 jobs and $125m in development impact. Key successes have included the establishment of private veterinary supply services which reduced the use of counterfeit drugs with significant impact on pastoralist farmers and the development of fattening facilities for exporting animal to the Middle East. Many of these investments have subsequently suffered from the debilitating multiannual drought in the Horn of Africa in the late 2010s.