Investment portal
Diaspora Fund
A pooling mechanism that supports the review and visibility of verified territorial projects, within a transparent governance framework.
What is the Diaspora Fund?
The Diaspora Fund is neither a vehicle for raising nor managing capital on behalf of third parties: the portal carries out no financial transaction and holds no funds on behalf of investors. It is a support mechanism that finances the review, verification and visibility of territorial projects, in order to reduce the information asymmetry between the diaspora and local project sponsors.
In practice, an investor who expresses interest in a project is put in direct contact with the project sponsor. The terms of investment, donation or loan are then freely defined between the two parties, outside the portal, in compliance with the applicable regulatory framework.
The organization's published impact framework provides for no capitalisation of the Diaspora Pilot Fund before year 3: the year 1 target is €0, in regulatory preparation. The activation of a management fee on a possible structured investment fund is therefore not envisaged before that horizon, and would first require a secured regulatory framework in the relevant jurisdictions.
Fund governance
The portal team reviews every project submission before it is published on the portal.
The programme is administered by KAGEDEV Cameroun, supervised by KAGEDEV e.V. No external audit has been carried out to date.
Decisions on the mechanism are taken by KAGEDEV Cameroun. Diaspora Cameroun has no legal personality of its own.
No financial transparency report has been published to date.
Project eligibility criteria
The project is carried by an identified local structure (cooperative, association, SME or group) based in Cameroon.
The project sponsor provides the required verification documents (legal statutes, feasibility study, sector-specific authorizations where applicable).
The project has a clear territorial anchoring and a direct, measurable impact on local employment or access to an essential service.
The project sponsor accepts transparency monitoring on the use of the amounts received (six-monthly progress report).
The project's sector falls within the portal's priorities: agriculture, energy, health, education or craftsmanship.
Transparency, amounts committed by sector
As the portal carries out no transaction, it can only publish what supported project sponsors declare in their progress reports. As no project has been supported yet, this page presents no amount today.
No financial transparency report is published to date. The Transparency page shows what is available.