Early Warning System

Regions

East Asia and Pacific
Latin America and Caribbean

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Countries

Brazil
Chile
China
Colombia
India
Indonesia
Malaysia
Mexico
Peru
Philippines

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Financial Institutions

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.

Project Status

Approved

Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.

Bank Risk Rating

Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."

Voting Date

Jun 10, 2021

Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.

Borrower

Global Infrastructure Partners

A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.

Sectors

Finance
Infrastructure

The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.

Investment Type(s)

Fund

The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.

Investment Amount (USD)

$ 150.00 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Loan Amount (USD)

$ 150.00 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Project Cost (USD)

$ 150.00 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Bank Documents

Project Summary (May 5, 2021) [Original Source]

Media Documents

Global Infrastructure Partners Announces Total $2.1 Billion Final Closing of Its Inaugural Emerging

Primary Source

Original disclosure @ AIIB website

Updated in EWS Jun 13, 2024

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Project Description

If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the AIIB, the objective of the project is to mobilize and attract private capital from institutional investors to create sustainable infrastructure as an asset class for investment in growing middle-income emerging markets in Asia and Latin America.

GIP EM is a closed-end fund with a target size of USD5 billion. The Fund aims to take advantage of the large number of investment opportunities in the infrastructure sector across growing middle-income emerging markets globally with a focus on China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam in Asia, and Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru in Latin America.

The FI's portfolio includes multiple investments in oil and gas infrastructure. It is unclear whether these are related to the Emerging Markets Fund I, or to other funds managed by Global Infrastructure Partners.

Early Warning System Project Analysis

For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

The AIIB categorized the project risk as 'FI', and stated that "AIIB financing will not be utilized to fund portfolio companies’ Category A or high-risk Category B subprojects".

Investment Description

Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

Financial Intermediary

A financial intermediary is a bank or financial institution that receives funds from a development bank. A financial intermediary then lends these funds to their clients (private actors) in the form of loans, bonds, guarantees and equity shares. Financial intermediaries include insurance, pension and equity funds. The direct financial relationship is between the development bank and the financial intermediary.

Global Infrastructure Partners (Financial Intermediary)

Private Actors Description

A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

As stated on the company's website, Global Infrastructure Partners, the intermediary fund's manager, is an "investor that specializes in investing in, owning and operating some of the largest and most complex assets across the energy, transport, digital infrastructure and water and waste management sectors."

Contact Information

This section aims to support the local communities and local CSO to get to know which stakeholders are involved in a project with their roles and responsibilities. If available, there may be a complaint office for the respective bank which operates independently to receive and determine violations in policy and practice. Independent Accountability Mechanisms receive and respond to complaints. Most Independent Accountability Mechanisms offer two functions for addressing complaints: dispute resolution and compliance review.

AIIB Team Leaders:

Jingyi Zhang - Senior Investment Officer
Email: jingyi.zhang@aiib.org

Kristina Yu - Investment Associate
Email: sheng.yu@aiib.org

Financial Intermediary - GIM EM Manager, LLC:

Annabel Wiscarson - Head of Investor Relations
Email: annabel.wiscarson@global-infra.com
Website: https://www.global-infra.com/

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You can submit an information request for project information at: https://www.aiib.org/en/contact/information-request/index.html

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF AIIB

The AIIB has established the Accountability Mechanism for Project-Affected People (PPM). The PPM provides Òan opportunity for an independent and impartial review of submissions from Project-affected people who believe they have been or are likely to be adversely affected by AIIBÕs failure to implement the ESP in situations when their concerns cannot be addressed satisfactorily through Project level GRMs or AIIB Management processes.Ó Two or more project-affected people can file a complaint. Under the current AIIB policy, when the bank co-finances a project with another development bank, it may apply the other bank's standards. You can refer to the Project Summary Information document to find out which standards apply. You can learn more about the PPM and how to file a complaint at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/how-we-assist-you/index.html

The complaint submission form can be accessed in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Hindi, Nepali, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu. The submission form can be found at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/submission/index.html