About Invest International
Impact investor to support business in expanding into foreign markets, when traditional financing is unavailable. Founded by Dutch government and Dutch development bank (FMO).
- Public-private financial institution
- Mission: enable sustainable growth, positive social & environmental impact, Dutch solutions address global challenges
- Partners with governments to support infrastructure and public projects
Focus on following sectors:
- Energy
- Water & infrastructure
- Agri-food
- Health/healthcare systems: technical solutions with high impact potential in health systems abroad, support interventions around timely diagnosis, long term monitoring of chronic disease, training medical staff, better patient care, circular manufacturing of medical devices.
- Sustainable manufacturing / production
Investment International acts as a financier and enabler, prepares Dutch health Innovations and expertise for lower- and middle-income countries. (LMIC’s).
Collaborations with GHH-partners
- Amref Health Africa: Primary Care Kenya (P4PC) – pilot of 80 clinics in Makueni County. Investment International contributed funding, business modelling and co-development.
- Philips: see Primary Care Kenya
- Task Force Health Care (TFHC): platform / ecosystem support & visibility – featured as partner.
- DGGF (by RVO): funding for P4PC in Kenya.
Overview of characteristics
Active in countries:
- Kenya: P4PC in Makueni County – upgrading 80 primary health care clinics
- Multiple African countries: Healthy entrepreneurs (Community Health Entrepreneurs model) – Invest International provides financial support to expand network of community health entrepreneurs (CHE’s), such as nurses, midwives.
- Netherlands: Equity investment in Incision (medical surgical software company)
- Tanzania: diagnostic/ hospital technology – bridging financial gap for better diagnostics and technology in 34 hospitals.
Community of Practice (CoP):
CoP1 Strengthening health systems
Themes and subthemes within CoP:
- Primary Health Care: financing health-oriented Dutch companies that enhance access to primary health care in fragile area’s and LMIC’s (Healthy Entrepreneurs).
- Health Systems Financing/sustainable funding: acts as gap-filling financier, combining public and private money (Incision).
- Infrastructure, medical tech & diagnostics: finances health facility upgrades, medical diagnostics deployment & supply chains (Tanzania diagnostics project, P4PC).
- Governance, partnerships, contracting: using PPP’s, gap funding, government co-financing helps strengthen institutional capacity and accountability in health projects.
- Human resources / capacity strengthening: enables training, staff upgrades, workforce development (P4PC).
Type of organization:
Private/business
Available resources:
- Knowledge & expertise: blended finance, ppp’s, structuring health infrastructure & enterprise finance
- Networks / partnerships: connected with Dutch government (finance, RVO), international financiers. Bridges public health actors with private investors. Member of Task Force Health Care (TFHC)
- Advocacy, influence, policy: influences how government intstruments (DRIVE, DGGF, NL Works) are deployed
- Financial/resource mobilization: core specialism
- Coordination/project management: structuring and managing complex ppp’s (P4PC)
- Capacity building / development: financial management, ppp design, structuring and sustaining projects in LMIC’s.
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