Case Study: Bigen Africa improves project funding feasibility with Lumivero @RISK

Bigen Africa uses @RISK to encourage funding for basic community services in South Africa

Bigen Africa, a civil engineering and development activist organization in South Africa, works to facilitate infrastructure projects providing basic services like water and housing. Their challenge was to manage demand risk, a critical factor impacting the financial feasibility of projects, to make them attractive for the commercial funding required for implementation. To address this, Bigen Africa turned to Lumivero's @RISK software to quantify and mitigate these risks effectively.

The solution from Lumivero involved using @RISK to build a model based on Standard Dwelling Types (SDTs) to predict community demand for services and its associated financial risks. This model provided the detailed, yet easily understandable, risk analysis that potential finance partners needed to confidently fund projects. As a result, Bigen Africa could secure commercial finance for essential infrastructure initiatives, ensuring these vital services are delivered to local communities across South Africa.

Bigen Africa

Tian Claassens

Managing Principal of Development Finance and Advisory Services