Our Impact
Transforming local capital markets and changing people’s lives
By developing local capital markets and financing infrastructure projects in lower income countries across Africa and Asia, we are helping to boost economic growth, improve the quality of people’s lives, alleviate poverty and deliver against the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Since 2005, we have delivered significant impact:
Delivering impact through
Transactions
Through our local currency credit solutions, GuarantCo provides improved access to infrastructure for people in lower income countries across Africa and Asia including more affordable and sustainable energy, housing, digital communications, water, sanitation and transportation.
Delivering impact through
Capital Market Development
By providing credit solutions, GuarantCo makes long-term infrastructure development an attractive asset class in lower income countries. This unlocks local currency capital managed by local banks and institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies. By engaging them with our business model we are transforming local capital markets to help local market economies grow.
Delivering impact through
PIDG Technical Assistance grants
We have access to Technical Assistance (TA) grant funding from our parent company the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) to further enhance the impact of our transactions and support the development of local capital markets. PIDG TA provides technical assistance and capital/viability gap funding grants to all PIDG companies to support their projects.
Contributing to meeting PIDG’s impact goals
Working collaboratively along the project life-cycle and across the capital structure, PIDG leverages its unique attributes to help early-stage projects overcome financial, technical or environmental challenges creating investment-ready, bankable infrastructure opportunities, as well as building local capability and capacity, while providing innovative financing solutions.
At GuarantCo, we ensure that we align with PIDG’s strategic priorities and focus on projects that offer: Scale, Replicability, Affordability and Transformation, as well as the programmatic themes. We use PIDG’s Theory of Change to derive GuarantCo’s ultimate impact on the wider community and system. Together with PIDG, GuarantCo has a range of tools including the scorecard, the Results Measurement Sheet and evaluations to ensure that it meets PIDG’s impact objectives and its additionality. We always strive to maximise our development impact while ensuring that priorities such as gender equality, women’s empowerment and climate change are reflected in depth across our portfolio.