Equity Group’s Africa Recovery and Resilience Plan (ARRP) is built around an ambitious expansion of financial inclusion, enterprise financing and economic transformation across the African continent.
▸ 5 million borrowing businesses and 25 million borrowing customers.
▸ Increase agriculture’s share of its loan book to 30%.
▸ Expand MSME financing to 65% of its loan book.
▸ Position itself as Africa’s leading trade finance bank.
The Africa Recover and Resilience Plan is the strategic north star of Equity Group’s transformation agenda-a long-horizon mission framework that defines priorities, sequences investments, and establishes measurable outcomes across six structural pillars.
These are Primary Sectors, Manufacturing and Logistics, Trade and Investment, MSMEs, Social and Environmental Transformation and Technology enabled Ecosystem.
The Equity Group plan aims at catalysing the transformation of Africa through Capacitating and enhancing productivity of raw material producers; Integrating primary producers to more coordinated African productive/ manufacturing capacities and Connecting primary and secondary sectors to global supply chains, capital, skills and technology.
Equity is positioning itself beyond traditional banking, with a strategy anchored on financing productive sectors, expanding access to credit, supporting enterprise growth and facilitating cross-border trade.
“The real measure of this ambition will be execution, asset quality and the ability to translate expanded lending into sustainable economic value,” said Dedan Maina, Capital Markets Analyst.
