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The financing package was granted during the 91<sup>st<\/sup> Ordinary meeting of the Board, held on Thursday, April 03, 2025, via videoconference, under the chairmanship of Dr. George Agyekum Donkor, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of EBID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facilities will be put towards the following projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A USD 50 million line of credit to Sterling Bank Limited in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to support SMEs operating in various sectors, including health, education, agriculture, renewable energy, and transport.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A CFA Francs 10 billion facility to B\u00e9nin Cashew SA to co-finance the construction of five cashew nut processing units and a cashew balsam production unit in the Glo Djigbe industrial zone (GDIZ) in the Republic of Benin. 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This strategic project will strengthen regional integration, facilitate cross-border trade, and create over 100,000 jobs during the construction phase and 20,000 permanent jobs once operational.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly approved commitments are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular, SDG 9 &#8211; Industry, innovation and infrastructure, and SDG 13 \u2013 Climate Action, as well as EBID\u2019s strategy to develop priority sectors. &nbsp;With this investment, EBID&#8217;s total commitments in the sub-region amount to USD 4.5 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>About EBID<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development<\/strong> (EBID) is the development finance institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) comprising fifteen (15) Member States namely, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. Based in Lom\u00e9, Togolese Republic, the Bank is committed to financing developmental projects and programmes covering diverse initiatives from infrastructure and basic amenities, rural development and environment, industry, and social services sectors, through its private and public sector windows. EBID intervenes through long, medium, and short-term loans, equity participation, lines of credit, refinancing, financial engineering operations, and related services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bidc-ebid.org\">www.bidc-ebid.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03 April 2025 &#8211; The Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved a total of USD 230 million and CFA Francs 10 billion to finance projects aimed at stimulating development and boosting economic activities in West Africa. 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