We help governments and development finance institutions identify, attract, and catalyze private sector investment — building pipelines, assessing enabling environments, and designing interventions that strengthen enterprise growth and FDI linkages.
In many developing and frontier markets, the gap between investment potential and actual private sector activity remains wide — driven by weak enabling environments, limited market intelligence, fragmented incentives frameworks, and governance deficits.
We work at the intersection of government reform and private sector engagement, supporting DFIs to identify investable pipelines in fragile and frontier markets, advising on incentives design, and delivering sector diagnostics that identify binding constraints to enterprise growth.
Identify, screen, and shortlist private sector investment opportunities using IFC Local Champions and similar methodologies, delivering diligence-ready memos and ranked scorecards.
Diagnose investment incentive regimes, identify market distortions, benchmark against international good practice, and deliver reform recommendations.
Conduct deep-dive sector analyses mapping market dynamics, value chains, and investment constraints, providing decision-ready evidence for sequencing interventions.
Design programs that strengthen SME capacity, access to finance, and business integrity, including anti-corruption mechanisms and digital financial services capacity building.
Conducted sector deep dives across agribusiness, manufacturing, and services. Produced ranked scorecards, investment memos for top-10 candidates, and validated sector roadmaps linking constraints to near-term pipeline opportunities.
Delivered a decision-ready basis for sector prioritization, a validated roadmap with actionable steps, and a framework to coordinate IFC, government, and partners around near-term deals and longer-term market development.
Built a company database, produced top-5 shortlists per sector, and delivered investment memos for the top 10 priority leads to strengthen IFC’s pipeline.
The reforms that make the biggest difference to investors are the ones that change what actually happens in government offices, not just what the law says should happen.
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An estimated $167 million in foregone revenues over six years. Our field diagnostic in Guinea’s artisanal gold sector quantifies the governance gap — and what it would take to close it.
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