About us Capital 4 Impact Foundation offers investment expertise

Capital 4 Impact leverages local knowledge and partnerships to create social impact and return on investment

Capital 4 Impact offers a unique combination of investment expertise and deep understanding of what it takes to achieve impact for vulnerable communities in developing and emerging markets.

Our mission is to work beyond traditional development finance, mobilizing capital to invest in the most promising businesses and opportunities, with a gender-lens. By leveraging our presence and partnerships, we aim to bring social impact to scale while creating return on investment.

Core values

Social impact

Long-term value through societal transformation and community-centred investment.

Accountability

Responsibility for our results — always with integrity and transparency.

Empowerment

We involve communities and partners in decisions, travelling a shared path.

Gender equality

A gender lens on every investment, building economic inclusion for women and men.

Community-centred approach – Small tickets and financial inclusion.

C4I has a unique position to build a pipeline of investable projects to scale up impact investment.

Local knowledge of business opportunities, together with smaller tickets that promotes financial inclusion, fostered with the technical assistance provided by Plan International makes C4I the perfect partner to co-invest within developing countries.

Our investment approach focuses on 4 de-risking elements:

Local partnerships

We partner with local accelerators and asset managers and to cultivate pipeline opportunities and to have the best investment operations and assistance to SMEs, with people who deeply understand the local business environment.

Development market expertise

Capital 4 Impact taps into 50 years of Plan International’s experience working in more than 80 countries, developing strategic partnership and operational capacity for a portfolio of $1,1 billion that reached 41,6 million children, among which 22,2 are girls.

Plan International in numbers

We worked in over

80

countries

We worked with

42.000

partners

We deployed Euros

1.1

bn.

Blended finance

Capital 4 Impact employs blended finance, a dynamic fusion of private investor capital and traditional donor contribution, to maximize the potential of our projects while mitigating the risks for investors.

C4IF has access to philanthropic capital and public funding due to the vast network of donors and social investors that are already involved in Plan International’s ecosystem. Plan International Denmark is one of Denmark’s largest primarily privately funded organization, working closely to the largest private foundations in the country, such us LEGO, NOVO and Poul Due Jensen.

Impact measurement

Capital 4 Impact will measure and report on impact with the quality and high standards of a leading international NGO avoiding green-washing and pink washing, whilst contributing to the standardization of impact measurement, particular in the social impact space that remains still a challenge for impact investors.

The first four challenges identified for investors to further develop the industry are related to: fragmentation across impact measurement framework, comparison of impact results with peers and impact data verification. Plan International has the expertise and boots on the ground that other institutions in the impact investment space do not have.

Strong Governance – Due Diligence

Investors can rely on Plan International’s governance build over decades of working in challenging contexts.

Plan International has implemented and enforced several policies to ensure the proper allocation of resources, risk management, accountability, and transparency.