Our impact

Infrastructure is fundamental to progress. PIDG works across the spectrum of the infrastructure development process based on local market needs, catalysing private sector participation and creating development impact.

It might be the power that allows people to use an electric stove instead of charcoal – or the power that provides access to the internet and allows communities to school their children. It could be the roads and ferries that get local farmers and their produce to market – or the clean water that keeps them and their families healthy. All of these things are enabled by infrastructure.

PIDG operates in the poorest and most fragile countries, where 2 billion people live on less than $3.20 per day, and 753m people live on less than $1.90 per day. In these countries, 1.1 billion people lack access to electricity, 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation and almost 800 million people lack access to clean water. In some of the African countries where PIDG operates, infrastructure constraints are estimated to cut productivity by around 40%, severely affecting competitiveness and limiting opportunities for people to have jobs to lift them out of poverty.

It is in all of our interests to leave no one behind and to ensure a fair opportunity for all, now and for the future. Our projects are chosen to maximise development impact. In selecting our projects, we consider a range of indicators, including those reflecting different aspects of inclusion, such as infrastructure service access; employment creation; export-earning potential; climate change, gender and disability. Whilst not all of these factors will be present in each and every project, on a portfolio basis they should be represented in depth.

What PIDG does matters. PIDG changes lives.