Useful Links

 

Principal Advisers to GuarantCo:

 

 

 

www.frontiermarketsfm.com
Frontier Markets Fund Managers (“FMFM”) (formerly known as Emerging Africa Advisers), are the principal advisers to GuarantCo.  Any queries relating to the GuarantCo should be addressed to them in the first instance (see Contact). 

 

Manager of GuarantCo:

SIFMA
Standard Infrastructure Fund Managers (Africa) Limited (“SIFMA”) is the manager and supplier of support services to GuarantCo.  Its shareholders are Standard Bank Group (as the lead sponsor) and FMO of the Netherlands and Emerging Markets Partnership (“EMP”) of the USA (as joint venture partners).

     
www.standardbank.com www.fmo.nl/  http://www.empwdc.com/

 

GuarantCo's Sponsors:

 

 www.pidg.org/
GuarantCo was an initiative of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (“PIDG”), whose founding members are the UK Government’s Department for International Development (“DFID”), the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (“DGIS”), the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (“SECO”) and the Swedish International Development Coorporation Agency (“SIDA”).  These PIDG members provide teh funding for GuarantCo through the PIDG Trust and, for DGIS, through FMO.

 

 

 

www.dfid.gov.uk/

 

www.minbuza.nl/en/home

 

www.seco.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en
 

www.sida.se/?d=121&language=en_UK
 

GuarantCo's Shareholders:

 

GuarantCo's shares are held by the PIDG Trust and by FMO.

 

 

 
 

Other PIDG links:

 

www.emergingafricafund.com
The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (“EAIF”) is a Public Private Partnership able to provide long-term USD or EUR denominated debt or mezzanine finance on commercial terms to finance the construction and development of private infrastructure in 45 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. EAIF is able to provide between US$ 10 million to US$ 36.5 million (or its equivalent in EUR) to projects across a wide range of sectors including telecoms, transport, water and power amongst others.

 

 

www.infraco.com
InfraCo aims to stimulate greater private investment in African and Asian infrastructure development by acting as a principal project developer.  They are able to take the earliest and highest risks in the development of infrastructure transactions, with the aim of selling them to investors once a full development process has been completed.  Their involvement is designed to catalyze new investment in water, power, transport and other related sectors.