High-quality infrastructure ultimately transforms economies. It does so by providing the energy, supply-chain inputs, logistics or access to markets needed by households and businesses, stimulating economic growth and providing new opportunities for current and future generations.
We provide scarce capital to developers and businesses: working alongside them to develop, construct or scale-up and operate infrastructure solutions, unlocking good projects and enabling them to do more. Our project companies directly provide safe, inclusive, jobs and enable local businesses to scale-up or do something new, generating further indirect jobs. Working together, we encourage the development of local supply chains, investment in local capability and capacity building programmes, and unlock new opportunities for local entrepreneurs.
We believe that new sources of private capital can be mobilised to finance infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. So we also invest in developing local capital markets and innovative commercial structures that will attract institutional and impact investors. We cross-pollinate ideas to pioneer new technologies in relatively established markets and pilot innovative solutions in frontier sectors and countries: establishing precedent and contributing to new regulatory frameworks or demonstrating commercial viability to encourage the replication and scale-up of bankable solutions.
PIDG’s structure enables it to offer a unique set of capabilities. PIDG Ltd sets investment criteria for the PIDG Companies (within the overall policies set by the Owners) and oversees their investment decisions to ensure that they comply with these criteria and with PIDG’s objectives in general, and that each investment constitutes an efficient and prudent use of resources by the PIDG Company concerned.
Building on a pioneering track record of integrating climate and inclusion considerations in infrastructure investment, we launched our 2030 Strategy in 2023, which makes action on climate and nature, together with sustainable development through new and improved infrastructure, the central purpose of
all we do.