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Our Impact
It’s easy to say your investment is making an impact. But how do you know for sure?
Deetken Impact supports the Sustainable Development Goals. Specifically, we evaluate our investment opportunities and our portfolio companies based on their contribution to these goals. Deetken’s current portfolio of holdings have delivered the following impact in support of the Sustainable Development Goals as of June 2017.
Goal: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
63,000 micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) clients have received health care services in the past 12 months.
Goal: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
52,000 MSME clients have received financial or literacy training in the last 12 months as a result of Deetken Impact investments.
Goal: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
52,000 MSME clients have received financial or literacy training in the last 12 months as a result of Deetken Impact investments.
Goal: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
- Clean renewable energy capacity of 99MW.
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Deetken Impact projects will generate 596 GWh per year, enough to power 148,000 households while displacing 189,000 tons of GHGs, equivalent to taking 40,000 cars off the road.
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Lower prices for consumers with sales price less than 50% of prevailing market rate.
Goal: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
91,000 MSME clients – 76% female, 47% rural
$1,700 average loan size – $860 micro/small enterprise, $6,150 medium enterprise
824 full-time jobs – 52% female
Goal: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
91,000 MSME clients – 76% female, 47% rural
$1,700 average loan size – $860 micro/small enterprise, $6,150 medium enterprise
824 full-time jobs – 52% female
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A Few of Our Projects
Small Hydroelectric Plant in Peru
Deetken Impact has provided short term funding to a run-of-river hydro project that is currently under construction eight hours northeast of Lima in Peru.
Impact
- The plant will generate 20MW of renewable energy.
- This project is part of 44 such “mini-hydro” plants (less than 20MW) that the Peruvian Government has signed PPAs for in an effort to increase the share of renewables in the country’s power mix. Although these projects are more expensive to build per MW than larger ventures, they allow for lower-impact to the surrounding environment and a more sustainable generation of electricity.
- The project is expected to displace approximately 50,000 equivalent tons of carbon emissions per year.
- The project has wide support by local communities and will create over two hundred direct jobs during the construction phase, and two dozen permanent jobs during the plant operational phase.
Impact
- Pro Mujer Argentina currently has close to ten thousand clients, with extremely low rates of default on the loans. The goal of our investment is to support their business expansion, as activities have been constrained by limited access to capital due to the political uncertainty and currency instability in Argentina in recent years.
- The immediate impact for women entrepreneurs is to provide them with much needed business training and working capital.
- Additionally, women and their families get access to health services, including cancer examinations, diabetes tests, nutrition and family planning counselling, illness consultations, and dental services.
- The funding from Deetken Impact will allow the NGO to reach an additional two thousand women entrepreneurs.
Women Entrepreneurship in Argentina
As true supporters of women entrepreneurs, Deetken Impact has provided funding to an NGO which provides micro and small enterprise loans to women in Northern Argentina on a group lending basis. In addition to their loans, the NGO offers its clients vital health services and business training.
Images provided courtesy of Pro Mujer
Women Entrepreneurship in Argentina
As true supporters of women entrepreneurs, Deetken Impact has provided funding to an NGO which provides micro and small enterprise loans to women in Northern Argentina on a group lending basis. In addition to their loans, the NGO offers its clients vital health services and business training.
Images provided courtesy of Pro Mujer
Impact
- Pro Mujer Argentina currently has close to ten thousand clients, with extremely low rates of default on the loans. The goal of our investment is to support their business expansion, as activities have been constrained by limited access to capital due to the political uncertainty and currency instability in Argentina in recent years.
- The immediate impact for women entrepreneurs is to provide them with much needed business training and working capital.
- Additionally, women and their families get access to health services, including cancer examinations, diabetes tests, nutrition and family planning counselling, illness consultations, and dental services.
- The funding from Deetken Impact will allow the NGO to reach an additional two thousand women entrepreneurs.
SME Financing in Ecuador
Deetken Impact has invested in Ecuador through an NGO which provides financial services, including individual loans and micro-insurance, to low income individuals. This NGO was selected 3 years ago as one of most impactful financial services firms in Latin America by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) due to its work with entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Branch office in Portoviejo, before and after the earthquake.
Impact
- The Ecuadorian NGO supports its clients with business training, provided both in groups and on a one-on-one basis during the credit evaluation process.
- It currently helps more than 40,000 clients. In addition, over two thirds of the staff are women.
- This NGO has achieved strong financial and social performance despite challenging recent conditions in Ecuador, including a sustained low oil price environment and a devastating earthquake. The Province of Manabí was hit the hardest, a region where the NGO has been working for 23 years.
- Our investment was provided in part to support re-construction activities by borrowers following the natural disaster, including food and supplies distribution for at least 3 weeks salary advances for employees, refinancing of loans, and vaccination campaigns (H1N1, hepatitis and yellow fever).
Impact
- The creation of 200 direct jobs in the community during construction.
- A reduced electricity price point for low income consumers.
- A reduction in the cost of power production by displacing higher cost sources such as diesel and bunker oil.
- The elimination of approximately 90,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum (equivalent of taking 20,000 vehicles off the road).
Solar Power in El Salvador
Deetken Impact has invested in a senior loan for a solar project located in La Paz, El Salvador. When completed, the project will provide enough electricity to serve 150,000 Salvadorians. It will also provide strong social and environmental benefits.
Solar Power in El Salvador
Deetken Impact has invested in a senior loan for a solar project located in La Paz, El Salvador. When completed, the project will provide enough electricity to serve 150,000 Salvadorians. It will also provide strong social and environmental benefits.
Impact
- The creation of 200 direct jobs in the community during construction.
- A reduced electricity price point for low income consumers.
- A reduction in the cost of power production by displacing higher cost sources such as diesel and bunker oil.
- The elimination of approximately 90,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum (equivalent of taking 20,000 vehicles off the road).
Affordable Housing in Honduras
Deetken Impact will be providing funding to a Honduran company that develops 2-bedroom and 3-bedroom affordable houses.
Impact
- Originally designed to be offered to their employees to improve their well-being and give them access to better opportunities, these developments have had a tremendous success with families in general needing low-cost housing in a peri-urban setting.
- They work with three of Honduras main banks to provide the mortgages. And through an agreement with the local government, families receive a bonus to subsidize the cost of their mortgages.
- During the first phase of the project, hundreds of families obtained access to modern homes with electricity, clean water, and sewage systems.
Impact
- Livecare is more than a technology company. Owned and managed by physicians, Livecare creates and implements tailored solutions for people facing barriers to health care access.
- Started in Canada, the company now has operations in Australia and will soon be expanding into several new countries in the emerging markets.
- Physicians rely on Livecare ConnectTM for virtual visits from the convenience of the patient’s home, reducing time in waiting rooms and removing barriers for the mobility challenged and people living in remote areas. Since launching in 2017, over 30,000 virtual visits have been completed.
- More than 18,000 Canadians use Livecare’s trusted personalized health record, KindredPHR, to store, manage and share their health information with their health and wellness providers.
- Three remote indigenous communities in Canada have high quality, sustainable health care services delivered by Livecare through a combination of telehealth and in-person visits.
Health Services in remote Communities
Deetken Impact provided venture financing to a pioneering Canadian company, Livecare, that uses eHealth technology to increase access to health care services and empower patients. Livecare’s innovative platform, Livecare ConnectTM, combines medical-grade secure video and text communications, an electronic medical record, and patient-owned personal health information to seamlessly bridge doctors to patients anywhere in the world.
Health Services in remote Communities
Deetken Impact provided venture financing to a pioneering Canadian company, Livecare, that uses eHealth technology to increase access to health care services and empower patients. Livecare’s innovative platform, Livecare ConnectTM, combines medical-grade secure video and text communications, an electronic medical record, and patient-owned personal health information to seamlessly bridge doctors to patients anywhere in the world.
Impact
- Livecare is more than a technology company. Owned and managed by physicians, Livecare creates and implements tailored solutions for people facing barriers to health care access.
- Started in Canada, the company now has operations in Australia and will soon be expanding into several new countries in the emerging markets.
- Physicians rely on Livecare ConnectTM for virtual visits from the convenience of the patient’s home, reducing time in waiting rooms and removing barriers for the mobility challenged and people living in remote areas. Since launching in 2017, over 30,000 virtual visits have been completed.
- More than 18,000 Canadians use Livecare’s trusted personalized health record, KindredPHR, to store, manage and share their health information with their health and wellness providers.
- Three remote indigenous communities in Canada have high quality, sustainable health care services delivered by Livecare through a combination of telehealth and in-person visits.
Real Stories of impact
Marta
Loans from Deetken Impact’s strategic partner, Pro Mujer, have not only allowed her to buy land and to construct a building for her businesss, but it has also provided funding for she and her daughter to earn diplomas in naturopathic medicine. She is a specialist in medicines and her daughter in massage. Loans have allowed her to expand her services and broaden the range of products that she offers. This includes a greenhouse for medicinal plants and a special sweat lodge used in combination with other therapies.
Maria
In Pachuca, Mexico we meet Maria de los Angeles. Maria has created Cocina Economica which means “Affordable Kitchen”. It provides popular Mexican food at low cost, yet it still includes table service so workers from the neighborhood and the school across the road can rest their legs.
Maria had no experience managing a restaurant or a kitchen but the opportunity to rent a spot across from the busy school was too good to pass up. She opened it originally as a breakfast spot and teachers would come every day. The teachers were followed by school staff and then more people from the area. Loans provided by Deetken Impact’s strategic partner Pro Mujer have helped her set up her business, have cash to pay the rent up front, and slowly add tables and chairs.
Before Pro Mujer, Maria took care of children and the house she lives in and selling goods via catalogue, which is a common starting point for many women in Pachuca. Capital from Deetken Impact has helped her make a true impact on the people in her community.
Maria-Elena
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