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Guarantee solutions built around your financing needs

Guarantee solutions built around your financing needs

From individual loans and bonds to portfolio and refinancing structures, our products help reduce risk, strengthen transactions and unlock longer-term local-currency financing.

From individual loans and bonds to portfolio and refinancing structures, our products help reduce risk, strengthen transactions and unlock longer-term local-currency financing.

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Guarantee products, structured to your capital needs

Explore our products

Solutions that adapt to your unique needs — from single transactions to programmatic guarantee frameworks.

Solutions that adapt to your unique needs — from single transactions to programmatic guarantee frameworks.

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Loan guarantee

Offer lenders added security through a partial credit guarantee that ensures repayment of both principal and interest if the borrower defaults. The Loan Guarantee strengthens the credit profile of lending opportunities, enabling banks to extend loan terms, explore new sectors, or assist clients who may not qualify for full credit support.

Key Benefits

Improve loan attractiveness and accessibility

Enable longer loan tenors and new sector exploration

Mitigate lender risk

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Loan guarantee

Offer lenders added security through a partial credit guarantee that ensures repayment of both principal and interest if the borrower defaults. The Loan Guarantee strengthens the credit profile of lending opportunities, enabling banks to extend loan terms, explore new sectors, or assist clients who may not qualify for full credit support.

Key Benefits

Improve loan attractiveness and accessibility

Enable longer loan tenors and new sector exploration

Mitigate lender risk

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Bond guarantee

Provide assurance to bondholders with a repayment guarantee in case of issuer default. The Bond Guarantee strengthens investor confidence, enabling greater access to capital markets and facilitating sustainable development through bond financing.

Key Benefits

Increase investor confidence

Support capital market access

Mitigate default risk

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Bond guarantee

Provide assurance to bondholders with a repayment guarantee in case of issuer default. The Bond Guarantee strengthens investor confidence, enabling greater access to capital markets and facilitating sustainable development through bond financing.

Key Benefits

Increase investor confidence

Support capital market access

Mitigate default risk

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Bank framework guarantee

This primary product supports new debt issuances, allowing lenders to originate qualifying loans that benefit from partial credit guarantee cover. Defined within the framework, qualifying loans typically target specific economic sectors, enabling targeted financial support.

Key Benefits

Facilitate sector-focused lending

Improve creditworthiness of new loans

Strengthen financial stability in targeted sectors

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Bank framework guarantee

This primary product supports new debt issuances, allowing lenders to originate qualifying loans that benefit from partial credit guarantee cover. Defined within the framework, qualifying loans typically target specific economic sectors, enabling targeted financial support.

Key Benefits

Facilitate sector-focused lending

Improve creditworthiness of new loans

Strengthen financial stability in targeted sectors

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Portfolio guarantee

Improve lending conditions by providing guarantee coverage on bank loan portfolios, thus reducing risk for financial institutions. This secondary product often provides second-loss protection, helping banks free up capital for new lending and potentially qualify for capital relief from central banks through reduced Risk Weighted Assets (RWA).

Key Benefits

Reduce portfolio risk for banks

Free up capital for new lending

Potentially qualify for RWA relief

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Portfolio guarantee

Improve lending conditions by providing guarantee coverage on bank loan portfolios, thus reducing risk for financial institutions. This secondary product often provides second-loss protection, helping banks free up capital for new lending and potentially qualify for capital relief from central banks through reduced Risk Weighted Assets (RWA).

Key Benefits

Reduce portfolio risk for banks

Free up capital for new lending

Potentially qualify for RWA relief

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Infrastructure refinancing guarantee

Bridge to bond

Integrate banking and capital markets with post-commercial operations refinancing guarantees to support large-scale infrastructure projects. This product offers refinancing through senior guaranteed infrastructure bonds for the Project SPV, encouraging successful and timely completion of greenfield projects.

Key Benefits

Facilitate infrastructure project refinancing

Incentivise on-time, on-budget project completion

Bridge financing between banks and capital markets

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Infrastructure refinancing guarantee

Bridge to bond

Integrate banking and capital markets with post-commercial operations refinancing guarantees to support large-scale infrastructure projects. This product offers refinancing through senior guaranteed infrastructure bonds for the Project SPV, encouraging successful and timely completion of greenfield projects.

Key Benefits

Facilitate infrastructure project refinancing

Incentivise on-time, on-budget project completion

Bridge financing between banks and capital markets

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Refinancing guarantee

Liquidity extension

Address tenor limitations by enabling banks to offer longer-term financing for infrastructure projects. This product provides an option for lenders to extend financing after the original maturity with or without continued credit protection, or transfer positions to another lender or Dhamana, which assumes the refinancing or credit risk if banks choose to extend.

Key Benefits

Overcome jurisdictional tenor limitations

Enable flexible refinancing options

Support long-term infrastructure financing

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Refinancing guarantee

Liquidity extension

Address tenor limitations by enabling banks to offer longer-term financing for infrastructure projects. This product provides an option for lenders to extend financing after the original maturity with or without continued credit protection, or transfer positions to another lender or Dhamana, which assumes the refinancing or credit risk if banks choose to extend.

Key Benefits

Overcome jurisdictional tenor limitations

Enable flexible refinancing options

Support long-term infrastructure financing

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Eligible sectors

While we are sector agnostic, here are the key areas in which we operate.

Agri-infrastructure

Capital Markets

Energy

Social Infrastructure

Transport

Water & Sanitation

Benefits of choosing Dhamana

Reduce dependency on bank loans for project financing.

Elevate the underlying bond/loan to align with Dhamana’s rating.

Safeguard against ratings downgrades.

Provide increased flexibility in covenant management and remediation services.

Extend the tenor of debt and alleviate the pressure of annual debt servicing.

Serve as a critical element for issuing long-term bonds to fund infrastructure projects in East Africa.

Reduce dependency on bank loans for project financing.

Elevate the underlying bond/loan to align with Dhamana’s rating.

Safeguard against ratings downgrades.

Provide increased flexibility in covenant management and remediation services.

Extend the tenor of debt and alleviate the pressure of annual debt servicing.

Serve as a critical element for issuing long-term bonds to fund infrastructure projects in East Africa.

Find the right guarantee solution

Our team is here to help you explore the best guarantee solutions for your project. Reach out to us for a consultation or to learn more about how we can support your goals.

Find the right guarantee solution

Our team is here to help you explore the best guarantee solutions for your project. Reach out to us for a consultation or to learn more about how we can support your goals.

Find the right guarantee solution

Our team is here to help you explore the best guarantee solutions for your project. Reach out to us for a consultation or to learn more about how we can support your goals.

Dhamana Guarantee Company Limited
6th Floor Sanlam Tower
Waiyaki Way
Nairobi
Kenya

© 2026 Dhamana Guarantee Company Limited.

All rights reserved.

Dhamana Guarantee Company Limited
6th Floor Sanlam Tower
Waiyaki Way
Nairobi
Kenya

© 2026 Dhamana Guarantee Company Limited.

All rights reserved.

Dhamana Guarantee Company Limited
6th Floor Sanlam Tower
Waiyaki Way
Nairobi
Kenya

© 2026 Dhamana Guarantee Company Limited.

All rights reserved.