All Business Africa is a pan-African programme that brings African businesses the opportunities open to them (public contracts, funding, buyers and investment) together with the information and guidance to win them. It works through a network of connected business portals: one for the continent, one for each region and one for each country.
Why this programme
Africa does not lack opportunities. It lacks the channels that carry them to the businesses able to take them.
One market is opening, and trade within it remains small.
The AfCFTA is building a single market of about 1.3 billion people. Trade between African countries reached 213.8 billion dollars in 2025, still less than a fifth of the continent’s total trade.
Source: Afreximbank, African Trade Report 2026
Public contracts are the largest market most small firms never enter.
African governments spend about 15% of gross domestic product on procurement every year. Women-owned businesses are estimated to win about 1% of procurement contracts.
Source: Open Contracting Partnership, 2023; UN Women, 2023
Information is the first barrier.
Small businesses repeatedly point to the lack of accurate, easy-to-understand information on how to trade under the AfCFTA. A tender published on one site, a funding call on another and a customs procedure on a third are out of reach for a firm of ten people.
Source: UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2026
The few firms that already know where to look keep winning. The programme exists to widen that circle.
What the programme supports
The AfCFTA, made usable. The agreement lowers tariffs. A business still needs to know where the demand is, which rules apply and how to comply. The programme provides this country by country and region by region.
Economic development and jobs. Each contract, grant or investment won by a local firm keeps revenue, skills and jobs in the local economy.
Inclusion. Small firms, women-led and youth-led businesses receive the same information as large ones, in their language, with the essentials free of charge.
Transparent public spending. An open record of who buys, who wins and at what value helps capable suppliers compete, and lets institutions and citizens see how public money is spent.
Investment in African businesses. Investors find companies and projects. Companies find the capital providers that match their sector and stage.
These objectives contribute to the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and to Sustainable Development Goals 5, 8, 9, 16 and 17.
How the programme works: five lines of action
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Opening access to opportunities
The programme collects and publishes, every day, the opportunities open to businesses in the 54 African markets: tenders, funding calls (grants, loans, equity, prizes), support programmes, events and investment projects. Each record links to the original notice and can be saved, tracked and added to a calendar. A free daily brief carries the day’s opportunities by email.
Today:more than 6,000 tenders on record, 876 of them open, and 700 funding opportunities.Read live from the records on this site, as of .
Each national portal explains its market in practical terms: the steps to import, export, move goods in transit and set up a company, the tariffs with a duty simulator, the sectors, the institutions to contact. Regional portals add what the trading bloc shares, such as its common external tariff and its corridors. Content is published in the languages of the country.
Finding an opportunity is half the work. On each portal, an AI assistant answers questions from the portal’s own content and cites its sources. On the continental platform, a set of AI tools assesses a firm’s chances on a given tender or funding call, lists what the application requires and helps prepare the proposal, the pitch deck or the business plan. Short courses with chambers of commerce, on reading a tender, building a compliant bid and forming a joint venture, are in preparation.
Today: AI assistants live on the continental platform and on every portal of the network.
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Connecting businesses, partners and capital
A business rarely wins alone. The programme maintains a directory of companies and of investors, a finder for joint-venture partners and service providers, and private rooms where parties can work on a deal. Regional portals add a marketplace where sellers present their products to buyers across the bloc. Business councils and chambers of commerce are the programme’s relays to their members.
Today:more than 12,000 companies and organisations and more than 3,600 investors listed.Read live from the records on this site, as of .
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Publishing the evidence
The programme keeps a public record of contracts already awarded: the buyer, the winning supplier, the value and the date. A firm uses it to price a bid and to find partners. An institution uses it to see where public money goes. From this record, the programme will publish a yearly report on who buys and who wins in Africa, including the share going to local and small firms.
Today:more than 170,000 contract awards from 54 countries, going back to 2019.Read live from the records on this site, as of .
The portals are being connected so that the opportunities of a country appear on its national portal as soon as they reach the hub, national tenders and projects travel back to the continent, and a business keeps one profile across the network. A new country portal therefore opens with content from its first day.
Who the programme serves
Businesses
Small and medium enterprises, startups, cooperatives and consultants looking for contracts, funding, partners or new markets.
Chambers of commerce and business councils
A concrete service for their members, under their own name.
Governments and their trade and investment agencies
A direct line to businesses for their procedures, tenders and investment projects.
Investors and funders
A view of companies and projects, and a place to publish calls where the right applicants will see them.
Development partners
A channel that reaches businesses at scale, with results that can be counted.
PANEOTECH, a pan-African digital systems engineering firm, designs, builds and runs the platform, the portals and their AI assistants, which are powered by Rafiki AI.