Combining concessional capital with blended finance is an innovative solution, bridging a major funding gap. Where a project is struggling to reach scale, concessional capital can be used to boost its commerciality and affordability.

PIDG is blending concessional capital into transactions through PIDG Technical Assistance’s capital grant, viability gap funding and concessional equity and debt products. 

In this episode we learn what concessional capital is and how it can be used to attract private sector investment into emerging economies. We find out how PIDG assesses when to deploy concessional capital and what it seeks to achieve with these products. And we hear about Dakar’s first fully electric public bus network, which has benefited greatly from the PIDG TA concessional capital offering.

Tune in for a conversation with:

Luke Foley, deputy head of Technical Assistance at PIDG

Puleng Pitso, investment specialist at the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF)

Your host is Marcel Klebba, communications manager at PIDG.

To find out more about PIDG’s approach to concessional capital on our website, pidg.org.

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