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These are unprecedented times. The COVID19 situation is replete with uncertainty over how it will evolve, even over the next few weeks. Last week, we spoke to several actors to understand their response to the pandemic and the role for private capital amidst this crisis.
Today, the contribution our portfolio companies and projects are providing to support those fighting the COVID-19 crisis makes us want to do more. In fact, we are already looking for partnerships where our innovative finance expertise can help bring solutions to the sectors affected by this outbreak.
This article examines new directions in financing humanitarian work. Increasingly, aid organisations are on the lookout for novel ways to pay for lifesaving projects.
In 2017, we came out with our first ever Impact report. In this first edition, we describe our current projects and investments, in a clear impact perspective.
On Friday 8th September 2017, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced the launch of the world’s first Humanitarian Impact Bond aiming to raise 26 million Swiss francs ($27.3 million) to build and operate three physical rehabilitation centers in conflict-affected parts of Africa over the next five years.
In July 2017, KOIS and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council went on a field visits in India. The visit’s objective was to better assess the feasibility and relevance of a Development Impact Bond around Menstrual Hygiene Management.
KOIS is looking into whether a development impact bond focused on employment and entrepreneurship in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq could help refugees and host communities.
In 2016, our co-founder François de Borchgrave participated in a panel hosted by Brookings to discuss the potential and limitations of impact bonds. Watch the video in this article.
One year ago we announced the launch of the first Belgian Social Impact Bond. This achievement was reached in a record timing of less than a year, by an informal team of professionals including EVPA member KOIS.
