The microfinance institution announces the success of its European tour in preparation for the launch of its Savana Diaspora Connects platform, a platform aimed at structuring and securing investment from the Cameroonian diaspora towards Cameroon.
Deployed in France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland, the tour allowed for the organization of targeted meetings in Paris, Brussels, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, and Geneva, at the heart of major Cameroonian diaspora hubs. More than a thousand members of the diaspora were reached through exchange sessions, community meetings, and work sessions dedicated to project leaders and potential investors.
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At the end of this roadshow, more than a hundred participants expressed formal interest in structuring their projects or investments via Savana Diaspora Connects. The most dynamic sectors concern structured real estate (residential and rental), agro-business and agricultural processing, service and distribution SMEs, as well as projects with high territorial impact and job creation.
The exchanges confirmed that the Cameroonian diaspora shows a strong desire to invest in the country, but remains held back by recurring risks such as land insecurity, lack of transparency, absence of remote monitoring, and the difficulty of managing complex projects.
To meet these challenges, Savana Finance, an approved microfinance institution rooted in Cameroon, designed Savana Diaspora Connects as an integrated platform for savings, investment, and operational support. Its approach is based on a structured professional framework, founded on the principles of ethical Islamic finance: backing by real assets, risk sharing, contractual transparency, and rigorous governance.
The platform thus deploys solutions adapted to the specific needs of the diaspora, particularly in real estate, entrepreneurship, structured savings, and productive investment, with support ranging from legal and land structuring to operational project monitoring.
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“Over a 12 to 24-month horizon, Savana Diaspora Connects aims to structure and channel between 15 and 30 billion FCFA of resources from the Cameroonian diaspora. This first phase aims to consolidate trust, demonstrate execution capacity, and establish a track record of successful projects. Over a five-year horizon, the objective is to reach a cumulative volume of between 100 and 150 billion FCFA directed towards the Cameroonian economy,” indicates Oumarou Mouctar, Managing Director of Savana Finance.
Savana Diaspora Connects intends to focus its efforts on sectors with high local added value and significant social impact, such as structuring and productive real estate, job-creating SMEs, agro-industry, local processing, agricultural modernization, productive equipment, and essential services.
“Through this approach, our ambition is to transform often informal and dispersed financial flows into productive, traceable, and sustainable investments, capable of structuring value chains and strengthening Cameroon’s economic resilience,” specifies Oumarou Mouctar, Managing Director of Savana Finance.
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