Client: U.S. Agency for International Development
Duration: 2017-2022
Region: Worldwide
Country: Worldwide
Solutions: Economic Growth
INVEST is a flexible, efficient buy-in mechanism that helps the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mobilize private capital. Increasingly, private investors and businesses are looking to emerging markets for better returns and new market opportunities. This represents an opportunity for USAID, but it requires new forms of collaboration with the private sector.
Through the large and growing INVEST partner network, USAID can access new and underutilized partners with the expertise USAID needs, including support for investment assessments, structuring funds, and transaction advisory services.
INVEST is designed to address challenges and make it easier for USAID to work alongside the investment community. It ensures rapid procurement—within four to six weeks—so USAID can act within investors’ timelines. It enables flexible, specialized project design and implementation. And, it focuses on learning and adaptation to drive innovation in mobilizing private capital.
Based in Washington, D.C., INVEST is USAID’s flagship blended finance initiative and includes subcontractors CrossBoundary, Tideline, and Convergence. It has built a network of approximately 250 partners that provide the niche, technical expertise USAID needs on-demand. INVEST has supported transactions in enterprise development, infrastructure, and financing instruments or funds. INVEST has worked in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kenya, and Tunisia.
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