International Office for Investment and Development (IOID): An operational structure of the World Association for Development (AMD)

Structuring investments that lastingly transform territories

The BIID transforms development priorities into structured, viable projects capable of mobilizing the resources needed for their implementation. At the interface of public authorities, project holders, investors, and technical partners, it connects project engineering, financial structuring, and institutional cooperation to advance operations that produce lasting economic, social, and territorial transformations.

Entry Points & Orientation

Three pathways to transform opportunities into achievements

Two African professionals in a working discussion
Pathway 01

You are leading a project

The BIID qualifies your initiative, assesses its maturity level, and organizes the pathway required for its progression. From preparation to structuring, it consolidates technical, institutional, and financial conditions to move the project toward a sustainable implementation that addresses identified development needs.
Smiling professional woman
Pathway 02

You are an investor or financier

Access qualified opportunities tailored to their sector, maturity, requirements, and risk profile. The BIID connects projects with compatible investment mandates to channel capital toward initiatives delivering economic value, social impact, and territorial transformation.
Cooperation between institutional partners
Pathway 03

You wish to become a partner

Combine your institutional, financial, technical, or operational capabilities with projects that require complementary resources and expertise. The BIID structures cooperation frameworks and coordinates partner alignment around shared development goals, clear responsibilities, and defined implementation terms.
Engineering & Deployment

OUR INTERVENTIONS

The BIID intervenes where the quality of preparation, investment structuring, resource mobilization, and partnership organization determine the transition from development priorities to concrete achievements. Its work connects technical expertise, financial engineering, and institutional cooperation around the specific requirements of each operation.

Solutions by Stakeholder Category

Tailor BIID intervention to the priorities of governments, local authorities, institutions, enterprises, developers, investors, and operators to advance their projects in line with their responsibilities and development objectives.

Strategic Axes

OUR PRIORITY SECTORS

The BIID focuses its intervention on sectors that sustainably structure economies, strengthen access to essential services, and support territorial resilience. On the homepage, six sectors are highlighted; others remain accessible from the full Priority Sectors page.

Renewable energy installations, solar panels and wind turbines
Priority 1

Energy and Energy Transition

Structure investments that strengthen energy access, grid reliability, energy efficiency, and the transition toward more resilient systems.

Logistics terminal with freight trains and cranes
Priority 2

Infrastructure, Transport and Mobility

Develop the equipment, connectivity, logistics, and mobility solutions needed for economic activity, access to services, and territorial integration.

Irrigated fields and agricultural storage silos
Priority 3

Agriculture, Food and Value Chains

Support investments that improve production, processing, storage, logistics, and food security while strengthening local economies.

Industrial unit and production lines
Priority 4

Industry, Local Processing and Trade

Strengthen productive capacities, local processing, value chains, and competitiveness to increase value creation and employment across territories.

Mining and resource processing site
Priority 5

Mining Resources and Sustainable Processing

Structure responsible projects combining resource development, local processing, environmental and social standards, and sustainable economic returns for territories.

Digital infrastructure and data center
Priority 6

Digital, AI and Digital Infrastructure

Leverage digital technologies, data, artificial intelligence, and digital infrastructure as drivers of modernization, productivity, and access to new services.

PROJECTS AND

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

The BIID highlights projects from the AMD ecosystem that address clearly identified development needs and present potential for structuring, financing, or partnership. This selection showcases initiatives capable of mobilizing resources, expertise, and implementation capacities around concrete and sustainable transformations.

Accountability and Impact Measurement

RESULTS THAT REFLECT OUR CAPACITY FOR ACTION

For the BIID, the performance of an investment is measured by its ability to clear preparation stages, mobilize appropriate resources, and produce lasting results for economies, territories, and populations. Monitoring combines operational performance, ESG requirements, financial tracking, and impact measurement to link each operation to the transformation it is expected to deliver.

Projects

Operational PerformanceTrack project maturation, the quality of their structuring, milestones achieved, and their progress toward financing, partnership, or implementation decisions.

Construction team on a major building site
Board gathered in a meeting room
Capital

Resource MobilizationAssess resources effectively mobilized, their diversification, and their capacity to meet the financial requirements established for operations.

Impact

Development OutcomesLink investments to intended effects: access to essential services, value and job creation, local capacity building, inclusion, resilience, and lasting improvement of living conditions.

Water access and hydric security
Children and human development
ESG

ESG, Transparency and AccountabilityIntegrate environmental, social, and governance requirements into the project cycle, document commitments, and maintain traceable information proportionate to the responsibilities and access rights of stakeholders.

"The homepage key figures will be published only from consolidated, verified, and documented indicators by the BIID."

Discover our impact and performance
International Ecosystem

PARTNERSHIPS THAT STRENGTHEN OUR CAPACITY FOR ACTION

Development projects rarely require a single competency or a single source of resources. The BIID builds cooperation that brings together institutional authority, financing, expertise, technology, execution capacity, and territorial anchoring around operations with clearly established responsibilities and objectives.

Field agent collecting data

States and Governments

Structure investment programs and organize the resources, expertise, and partners needed to translate public priorities into actionable operations.

Learn more : States and Governments
Reader browsing an economic journal

Financiers and Investors

Align their mandates and instruments with qualified opportunities, organize access to information, and facilitate exchanges needed for deal evaluation.

Learn more : Financiers and Investors
Strategic Analyses

CHALLENGES THAT CALL FOR INVESTMENT

Major development challenges reveal considerable investment needs. The BIID puts these issues into perspective to highlight areas where better-structured projects, better-targeted capital, and better-organized partnerships can produce lasting transformations.

Human Capital

Education — Investing today in tomorrow’s capabilities

BIID Link: Education, skills and human capital

Les besoins persistants de financement fragilisent les infrastructures, les ressources pédagogiques et la capacité des systèmes éducatifs à absorber une demande croissante. Pour le BIID, l’enjeu consiste à faire émerger des projets suffisamment structurés pour orienter des ressources vers les équipements, les services, les outils et les capacités qui soutiennent durablement le capital humain.

Productive Fabric

SMEs — Removing barriers to finance to accelerate growth

BIID Link: Entrepreneurship, SMEs and inclusive finance

L’accès insuffisant à des ressources adaptées limite l’investissement productif, la modernisation et le changement d’échelle des petites et moyennes entreprises. Le BIID rapproche les besoins d’investissement des instruments et partenaires susceptibles de soutenir la croissance, l’innovation, l’emploi et la transformation locale.

Ecological Resilience

Water — Investing in water security and sustainable access

BIID Link: Water, sanitation and water security / Eau Secours International Programme (PESI)

Les déficits d’accès à l’eau appellent des investissements capables d’articuler infrastructures, gouvernance, résilience climatique et continuité du service. Le BIID structure ces besoins afin d’ouvrir des trajectoires de financement et de partenariat adaptées aux territoires confrontés à une forte vulnérabilité hydrique.

Social Protection

Health — Boosting investment in access to essential healthcare

BIID Link: Health / Mobile clinics

L’insuffisance de couverture sanitaire révèle des besoins durables en infrastructures, équipements, logistique, technologies et services de proximité. Le BIID accompagne la structuration d’opérations permettant de rapprocher l’investissement des territoires et des populations insuffisamment desservis.

Mobilization and Direct Contact

ADVANCE YOUR PROJECT, YOUR INVESTMENT, OR YOUR COOPERATION

Whether it involves structuring a project, identifying an investment opportunity, or building a cooperation, the BIID provides an entry point tailored to each approach. Its intervention aims to align development priorities with the resources, expertise, and partners needed to advance operations toward implementation.

For project holders

Present your initiative and begin its qualification, preparation, and structuring pathway.

For investors and financiers

Identify opportunities compatible with your mandate and engage in a qualified exchange around the operations that interest you.

For partners

Build with the BIID an institutional, financial, technical, or operational cooperation around development projects requiring complementary capacities.