Consensus Business Group (Consensus) is an advisor to The Tchenguiz Family Trust and a multi-faceted principal investor in a broad range of synergistic activities. The core business includes structured finance, the acquisition, management and development of commercial and residential real estate and a substantial investment portfolio focused on technology, bio-science and cleantech enterprises.
www.consensusbusiness.com
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, creates opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives. We foster sustainable economic growth in developing countries by supporting private sector development, mobilizing private capital, and providing advisory and risk mitigation services to businesses and governments.
www.ifc.org
The Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Limited (Finnfund) is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies it finances ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
www.finnfund.fi
The Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (Sifem) is a specialized investment advisor providing long-term finance to private equity funds that invest in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in developing and transition economies. On a selective basis Sifem also acts as co-investor in the underlying portfolio companies of its private equity funds, and makes direct investments in financial institutions with an SME or microfinance lending focus.
www.sifem.ch
The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) is an innovative fund-of-funds, providing global risk capital through private investment for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in developing countries and economies in transition. GEEREF aims to accelerate the transfer, development, use and enforcement of environmentally sound technologies for the world’s poorer regions, helping to bring secure, clean and affordable energy to local people.
www.geeref.com
The Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (Norfund) is a development finance institution that serves as an instrument of Norway’s development policy. Through investments in profi table businesses and the transfer of knowledge and technology, it contributes to poverty reduction and economic development in the developing countries.
www.norfund.no
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s mission is to help reduce poverty, improve living conditions for Africans and mobilize resources for the continent’s economic and social development. With this objective in mind, the institution aims at assisting African countries – individually and collectively – in their efforts to achieve sustainable economic development and social progress.
www.afdb.org
The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a self-financing, national Development Finance Institution (DFI). It was established in 1940 to promote economic growth and industrial development in South Africa. The IDC is a self financing national Development Finance Institution (DFI), whose primary objectives are to contribute to the generation of balanced, sustainable economic growth in Africa and to the economic empowerment of the South African population, thereby promotion the economic prosperity of all citizens. The IDC achieves this by promoting entrepreneurship through the building of competitive industries and enterprises based on sound business principles.
www.idc.co.za
The Seed Capital Assistance Facility (SCAF) is a new initiative operating in most developing countries in Asia and Africa. The facility is aimed at helping energy investment funds provide seed financing to early stage clean energy enterprises and projects. The Facility is implemented through the United Nations Environment Programme, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank.
www.scaf-energy.org