Investment Solutions

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Impactful returns for people and planet

Investment is crucial to market transformation. But many sustainable development projects miss out on financing owing to uncertainties in outcomes, insufficient returns or inadequate investment size.

From co-funding business models to developing investable projects and managing impact funds, our solutions address this significant gap in the market by mobilising a blend of public and private capital to realise otherwise impossible impact projects.

Combining over a decade of investment experience with our 15-year track record in identifying and implementing successful impact projects, we deliver innovative financial solutions. 

Securing joint contributions for sector transformation

Do you have an innovative commercial project in mind that will deliver strong social and environmental value? We partner public- and private-sector agencies to share expertise and develop new sustainable business models through grants and technical support.

Through co-funding we aim to trigger investments that businesses would not make otherwise, enabling transformational projects to happen more quickly, at a bigger scale, and with better development outcomes. 

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Checklist for IDH co-funding support

  • An original and innovative impact idea
  • Self-financing the project is not possible
  • No access to donors, commercial financing or advice 
  • No expertise to implement the project alone
  • Project costs and risks outweigh business benefits
  • Prepared to cover 50% of the cost

Creating new financial instruments for socially equitable and environmental returns

IDH Invest is our integrated investment arm that specialises in developing investable opportunities and managing high-impact funds as part of our strategy to achieve market transformation at scale. A great example of this is the IDH Farmfit Fund which provides de-risking financial instruments for smallholder farmer related financing transactions, opening access to investors and catalysing commercial capital to co-invest in the sector. Unlike most impact investors, we specifically focus on transformative projects with higher risk profiles.

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