IZDEHAR or Palestine Prosperity Investment Development - PPID is a US$ 100 million investment vehicle for development-oriented investment opportunities in Palestine. It provides a pool of readily available risk capital for project construction and operation. IZDEHAR will work in a complementary manner as a deal catalyst, identifying and developing infrastructure projects from their earliest concept phase to an investment-ready phase, it will assemble all financing needs and will bear the risks of construction and operation.
The fund will focus on essential infrastructure needs, including Energy, Industrial Zones, Waste Management, Education, Health, Religious Tourism, Technology, Agriculture and Affordable Housing.
PPID identifies and develops large-scale commercially viable projects from the idea stage until financial closure, aiming to reduce the risk inherent in these projects by strategically structuring their financial and legal formations. Projects are selected based on their potential to help build the foundation and the infrastructure for an independent state with strong viable economy, and create long term professional employment opportunities across a variety of disciplines and sectors.
To this background PPID will:
- facilitate access to capital, through equity and debt instruments, for development projects at various stages (green field and up).
- identify and develop investable opportunities; assist in the creation of business plans; support the process of raising debt and equity; provide guidance on governance structures and Continuously support investors post completion of transactions.
- work with existing sources of capital (debt and equity) and with new potential funders/investors to develop proper financing Structures for investment opportunities in Palestine.
- develop advanced tailored interventions that will meet investors/debtor’s partnership and lending criteria.
