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Expansion of the school La Petite Sirène, funded with a DFC/DIG loan from the Haiti Rebati Fund

Founded in 2012, DIG Capital is a financial company originally created to serve as the fund management, fund technical services, and investment arm of the Development Innovations Group.  DIG Capital supported DIG’s work in transitioning and developing economies, as well as post-disaster and post-conflict settings throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.  DIG Capital main project was the Rebati Fund in Haiti.

Rebati Fund supported the reconstruction of businesses and homes in post-earthquake Haiti (2010). Established in February 2013 and phased out in 2022, Rebati is the result of a foreign direct investment (FDI) from the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), formerly the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with key support from USAID, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (CBHF), and the Haitian Government (Central Bank). The Fund’s overarching objective was to mobilize long-term capital to support Haiti’s recovering financial sector and, specifically, to provide support to SMEs through Haitian Financial Institution Lenders as a means to promote SME sustainability and long-lasting recovery. 

Envisioned as a vehicle to channel FDI into Haiti after the earthquake, Rebati was a partnership among DFC, USAID, and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which led to the creation of the USD 17 million fund, managed by DIG. Also, USD 3 million from CBHF serves as a first-loss guarantee for the DFC investment that, ultimately, was allocated as capital funding to Haitian SMEs. Through targeted TA, DIG worked with relevant government agencies and local financial institutions, such as Haiti’s largest development finance institution focused on assisting SMEs, Société Financière Haïtienne de Développement S.A. (SOFIHDES). As the Fund manager, DIG helps its local partner financial institutions to design and market new financial products to SMEs. 

DIG Capital serves diverse clients, including multi-lateral financial institutions and private international development organizaiotns, with their fund management, funding design, and technical assistance needs.