Across the Palestinian Territories, where ongoing crisis and economic disruption continue to strain businesses and financial systems, access to capital is often the difference between survival and closure. In this environment, the SANAD Fund for MSMEs plays a critical role by strengthening the resilience of its partner financial institutions, enabling them to continue serving their clients despite severe operational disruptions.
Across MENA and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), women entrepreneurs are building solutions for financial access and jobs, often facing tighter capital constraints. To help them in securing much needed capital, in 2025, SANAD’s Advisory & Capacity Building arm launched the Advancing Women Entrepreneurship in MENA & SSA accelerator program. The cross-regional platform is designed to equip up to 40 female-led or oriented startups with tailored capacity building, mentoring, and clearer pathways to capital.
SANAD’s investment in Arab Tunisian Lease (ATL) is more than a single transaction. It also marked a defining moment for the fund: reaching the milestone of USD 1 billion invested in the region since inception. For the fund’s investors, it is a clear signal of both scale and discipline, growth anchored in local partnerships, practical financing, and support that continues well after the papers are signed.
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), expanding access to finance requires more than debt financing. It requires risk capital to scale strong, resilient institutions capable of serving underserved markets in a sustainable manner. The SANAD Equity Sub-Funds were designed with this principle in mind: to provide patient capital to financial service providers that can expand access, innovate responsibly, and scale their impact across the region. And for more than a decade, some of the financial institutions the fund helped to build, had not existed before, and supported digital innovators to transform how financial services are delivered.
In 2025, SANAD reached a milestone that reflects both resilience and long-term commitment to the region, surpassing USD 1 billion in cumulative investments across the Middle East, North Africa, and selected Sub-Saharan African markets. In a year marked by economic uncertainty and regional conflict, we returned to a clear growth trajectory, deploying more than USD 160 million in new investments to ensure MSMEs continued to access the liquidity they need to operate, employ, and grow. With this the fund has also supported over 497,000 jobs since its inception, out of which 34% held by women. The SANAD Debt Sub-Fund ended the year with 36 active partner institutions, including six new partnerships established in Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, and Uganda. Each partnership represents more than a transaction; it represents trust, long term alignment, and a shared commitment to strengthening local financial ecosystems and access to finance for entrepreneurs in the region.
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