Active Projects
Below is a sample of projects for which we provide advisory services:
Financial Guarantees for the Developing World
This financial guarantee firm for emerging markets will credit enhance local currency bond issues. Its innovative model will unlock billions in domestic pension and social security funds for investment in essential infrastructure such as health, facilities, education, toll roads, affordable housing, water and sanitation.
West African Agriculture
A 5,000 hectare farm on the Afram plains concentrating on maize and other staple production. This company helps modernize the agricultural sector in Ghana, addressing food security needs and interfacing with local farmers to provide access to improved inputs and markets.
Hybrid Development Chains
A group of development agencies with mandates that include the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities.
East African Plant Propogation
A state of the art plant propagation facility and tissue culture lab, selling plants and seeds to Rwanda’s domestic market. This company propagates plants like potatoes, bananas, passion fruit, macadamia, pyrethrum, bamboo, and educates farmers on how to plant for maximum return. This is the first tissue culture lab and plant propagation facility in Rwanda.
Large Scale Tire Recycling
Recycles scrap tires into their valuable components – carbon, oil, gas and steel. The process is clean, puts out more energy than it consumes, and produces a high value nano-scale carbon black substitute called CarbositeTM, resulting in $7 per tire value vs. $0.50 per tire otherwise. The opportunity offers an end-of-life solution for the 1.2 billion tires discarded globally each year.
African Health Fund
Provides affordable loans to healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa to invest in health care capacity and quality. The fund disburses loans in a stepwise approach and provides support for business planning and medical quality improvement. As a result, healthcare providers become bankable, and the achieved improvements are evaluated against international quality standards.
Chinese Water Remediation
Leveraging unique experience in water sanitation in the US, this company is providing clean water in China through an innovative sanitation system.
Development Thinktank
A nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating social and economic progress in low and middle income countries. This group provides policy analysis, critical information, decision-making tools, and policy advice to governments, civil society organizations, and international funders in order to stimulate positive change.
West African Telecom
Provides affordable broadband communications services to the lower income population segments in West Africa and facilitates commerce, education, healthcare and governmental services.
East African Farm
A 5,000 hectare farm in the Southern Tanzanian Highlands, this company is upgrading a formerly state run operation to increase soil quality and production. It provides farmers in the region with high quality, disease free seed potatoes that can triple yields.