How we invest
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HOW WE INVEST
We invest in essential systems that raise living standards, strengthen economic resilience, and create compounding benefits over decades. Our approach prioritiSes real assets and operating models that are measurable, maintainable, and scalable.
Principles
Systems first: Target bottlenecks that unlock many downstream outcomes (health, productivity, incomes).
Unit economics: Back projects that work on cash flow and operations, not only on grants or goodwill.
Downside protection: Structure for resilience through contracted demand, phased capex, and diversified offtake.
Local capability: Invest alongside operators and teams that can run and maintain assets long after build-out.
Measurable impact: Define KPIs at day 0 and track them like financial metrics.
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Priority themes
Our current priority themes are: (1) agri-food processing, (2) clean running water, and (3) energy and electricity. Each theme is described below with our focus areas, geographic strategy, return profile, and impact metrics.
Agri-food Processing
We invest in infrastructure and operating capabilities that move agriculture from raw commodity production to higher-value, higher-stability food systems. The goal is to reduce post-harvest losses, stabilise prices, and improve nutrition.
Focus
Value chain upgrades (aggregation, grading, storage, processing).
Processing capacity (milling, drying, oil pressing, dairy, packaging).
Cold chain and logistics (pre-cooling, refrigerated transport, last-mile distribution).
Quality assurance and compliance (food safety, traceability, certification).
Market access enablement (buyer contracts, offtake structures, export-readiness where relevant).
Target geography
Primary: Burundi. Secondary expansion: Great Lakes region (Rwanda, DRC, Tanzania, Uganda) as operating capacity matures.
Return profile
Long-term, demand-driven by food consumption and population growth; typically inflation-linked.
Downside-protected through diversified offtake (multiple buyers), contracted volumes, and phased scaling.
Value created through throughput growth, yield improvements, margin capture in processing, and logistics efficiency.
Impact metrics
Households reached (farmers + consumers) and income uplift at the farm gate.
Post-harvest loss reduction (%).
Retail price stability for staples (variance vs baseline).
Nutrition improvements (availability of fortified or higher-protein foods, dietary diversity proxies).
Jobs created (direct, indirect) with share of youth and women employment.
Clean running water
We invest in clean water systems that reliably deliver safe water at affordable cost, with strong maintenance and monitoring to ensure continuous service.
fOCUS
Distribution networks (piping, kiosks, household connections).
Purification and treatment (filtration, chlorination, UV, source protection).
Monitoring and metering (water quality sensors, smart meters, leakage detection).
Resilience upgrades (backup power, redundancy, seasonal supply planning).
operating model
Partner with experienced operators or utilities; define roles clearly (capex investor vs operator).
Maintenance SLAs with performance-based incentives and penalties (uptime, response time, quality compliance).
Community engagement model for adoption and governance (where appropriate).
Transparent tariff design: affordability protections + cost recovery + reinvestment reserves.
impact metrics
Minutes saved per household per day (reduced time fetching water).
Water quality uptime (% of time meeting standards) and incident response time.
Service reliability (days of continuous supply, pressure stability).
Health proxies (reported diarrhea incidence trends where data is available).
Affordability (share of household income spent on water).
We invest in affordable, reliable electricity that enables productive use: small businesses, cold storage, manufacturing, education, and digital services.
energy and electricity
Focus
Mini-grids (solar-hybrid where feasible) and grid-edge upgrades.
Solar + storage systems for community services and SMEs.
Productive-use electrification (power for milling, welding, refrigeration, irrigation).
Reliability and loss reduction (smart meters, anti-theft, voltage regulation).
Financial model
PAYGo structures for distributed systems where appropriate, with credit/risk controls.
Anchor-load model (schools, clinics, telecom towers, industrial offtakers) to stabilise demand and revenues.
Blended capital when required (concessional layers for affordability; commercial layers for scale).
Impact metrics
Reliability (SAIDI/SAIFI equivalents where measured; hours of service per day).
Cost per kWh to end user vs alternatives (diesel, kerosene, informal charging).
New businesses enabled and productive-use load growth (kW/kWh).
Emissions avoided vs baseline generation (where measurable).
Public service outcomes (clinic cold chain uptime, school connectivity, street lighting coverage).