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Technical Assistance

Enabling the successful development of PIDG projects through the provision of technical assistance and concessional capital.

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PIDG’s technical assistance funding is deployed across the complete infrastructure project life cycle for PIDG projects, including for the assessment of potential investment opportunities, enhancing impact and building capacity of host country partners and local investors. We also provide concessional capital, enabling PIDG to offer a blended finance solution on high impact transactions and catalyse private sector finance deployment. 

Working together

PIDG solutions can apply for technical assistance or concessional capital to support both projects under development and those that have already received investment.

Technical Assistance Offering

Upstream support
Project preparation
Transaction support
Impact enhancement
We fund advisers to work with government officials to support the design and implementation of infrastructure projects financed by the private sector
We fund activities to help develop the project to reach Financial Close or Commercial Close
We cover costs relating to bond and loan note issuances
We fund feasibility studies, design of developmental activities, or the implementation costs for developmental activities aimed at enhanced social inclusion, especially around gender issues
Pre-feasibility study
Lender due-diligence
Capital market activities
Operational Phase Support
We fund early-stage assessments to understand the viability of a project or aspects of a project
We fund enhanced due diligence of aspects and stakeholders involved in the project
We build capacity and strengthen local capital markets, when such work enhances the likelihood of project financial closure or the sustainability of projects
We cover costs required to provide operations support to PIDG portfolio companies
Through our concessional product offerings, PIDG aims to successfully create a demonstration effect of commercial replicability for high impact projects whilst ensuring that the principle of minimal concessionality is met. Our range of concessional products is reflected below:

Concessional Product Offering

Capital Grant
Viability Gap Funding
Concessional Equity
Concessional Debt
Deployed towards a project’s capex costs, ensuring commerciality, affordability, and adequate private sector investor returns.
Deployed towards a project’s capex costs, ensuring commerciality, affordability and adequate private sector investor returns.

The funding is designed to make economically viable projects commercially viable, thereby attracting private sector finance.
An equity instrument that seeks to mobilise other sources of equity funding by negotiating financial returns that are more concessional than would normally be expected by equity shareholders.

This instrument is expected to be deployed alongside equity from other PIDG Companies.
A hard currency debt financing instrument provided on terms that are more concessional than PIDG’s broader debt offering.

This instrument is expected to be deployed alongside other classes of debt provided by other PIDG Companies.

The tenor of this debt in expected to match that of any accompanying PIDG financing.

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