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Batho Enterprise Network
Batho Enterprise Network is a financial inclusion and impact driven platform dedicated to enabling the scalable growth of township, rural, and informal enterprises. The organisation focuses on integrating SMMEs from underserved markets into the formal economy by facilitating access to financial systems, building credible credit profiles, and strengthening long term business sustainability and strategic synergies.
A core pillar of Batho Enterprise Network's model is the mobilisation of funding into these enterprises, improving access to both working capital and growth finance. In addition, the network leverages aggregated procurement and bulk buying mechanisms to lower input costs, enhance margins, and increase the competitiveness of participating businesses, including loyalty programmes.
This approach is underpinned by fintech enabled solutions and a digital platform that supports enterprise development, streamlines operations, and improves access to markets and financial services. Batho Enterprise Network also fosters ecosystem collaboration by enabling small businesses to support one another, unlocking shared value and driving inclusive economic growth.
Through this integrated model, Batho Enterprise Network is building a pipeline of resilient, scalable enterprises that contribute meaningfully to job creation and sustainable economic participation within their communities through capacity building, mentorship, and coaching.
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Salient Fund Managers
A registered Financial Service Provider with a Developmental Fund Management Mandate, biased towards the development of emerging and often excluded Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), Small Holder Farmers (SHF), and Entrepreneurs in general. Salient Fund Managers employs an innovative financing approach to unlock capital for underserved and traditionally non-bankable segments, including but not limited to:
- Use of guaranteed mechanisms to safeguard capital
- Group lending, savings groups, and back-a-buddy funding schemes
- Blended financing
- Outcomes-based financing (Financing for Results)
- Direct grant lending and financing backed by DFIs, Government Departments, and Philanthropic Organisations
At Salient Fund Managers we believe that Enterprise Sustainability is the Ultimate Return — the ability of an enterprise to remain in business for the foreseeable future from the point of funding is the ultimate indication of success.
Salient Fund Managers holds mandates to implement and manage the following industry-focused funds:
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Priority National Programs
Through our experience and our network of partners we implement National Priority Programs linked to Community Development and local economic activation, Youth Skills Development, and High Impact Jobs Creation through youth incubation hubs and accelerator programmes.
We also lead Healthcare Interventions, the National Youth Service in South Africa and Namibia, Community Safety, and the implementation of the Presidential Youth Employment Initiatives and National Pathways Management Pillars in South Africa.
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Enterprise & Supplier Development (ESD)
Designing commercially viable ESD funding structures aligned to
transformation objectives.
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Development Finance
Blended and structured finance solutions for enterprise and project growth.
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Capital Raising & Structuring
Institutional-grade capital advisory for corporates and growth enterprises.
