Development finance

Vivianne Infante, director of the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA), explains why “collaboration means action”, as she directs capital to markets often “below the investment radar”.

The Organic Development Finance Fund will focus on supporting organic producers in developing countries and facilitating their access to global markets.

British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, is backing the first fund dedicated to development impact bonds in lower and middle-income countries.

Microfinance institution SATYA has secured debt funding from the two European institutions to expand their reach and improve outcomes for millions of low income households in India.

In the first of two articles on the topic of capacity building, we look at how impact investors are going beyond just injecting capital to providing the support portfolio companies need for their long-term sustainability.

E3 Capital and Lion’s Head have announced the $48m first close of the E3 Low Carbon Economy Fund for Africa fund with backing from DFIs FMO, KfW, Swedfund and Proparco. 

The SUSI Asia Energy Transition Fund (SAETF), which has received commitments in excess of $100m, has made four investments so far and is set to reach final close shortly.

The partnership aims to facilitate the co-financing by Dutch and other European pension funds of sustainable development projects.

The partnership aims to mobilise institutional capital for private sector projects in Africa via the ILX Fund I, which is backed by Dutch pension funds. It will also support a new fund set to be launched in coming months.   

The water infrastructure funding gap is the largest of any infrastructure sector in Africa. We sit down with Metito’s Rami Ghandour and BII’s Chris Chijiutomi to discuss their Africa Water Infrastructure Development (AWID) initiative.