Governance
Institutional stability and administrative capacity where the asset sits: protest activity, infrastructure quality and access, and proximity to functioning public services.
A national risk score can hide a local opportunity.
We assess risk at the level that impacts your investment: the district, the site, and its immediate surroundings.
Example portfolio · 4 assets · Country A
2 at High on Climate| Asset | Gov.Governance | Confl.Conflict | Clim.Climate | Res.Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Example asset 2 Agribusiness · District B | 33Low | 24Low | 69High | 52Moderate |
Example asset 1 Energy · District A | 41Moderate | 58Moderate | 66High | 37Low |
Example asset 3 Telecom · District C | 55Moderate | 71High | 48Moderate | 29Low |
Example asset 4 Infrastructure · District D | 26Low | 12Low | 35Low | 44Moderate |
Every asset, every module, one sortable view
National aggregated ratings do not tell the full story that shapes your investment.
A country rating can't tell a stable capital region from a contested border district. IntegralDD scores the district.
Four signal layers, one decision-ready read
Each signal layer measures a distinct dimension of subnational risk. IntegralAction brings them together into the conditions and monitoring triggers needed for diligence and operations.
Conflict
Physical security conditions around the site: the pattern, proximity, and severity of conflict events in the surrounding area, beyond the country-level headline rate.
Climate
Forward-looking drought and water-stress signal alongside flood, heat, and wildfire hazard exposure, with calibrated uncertainty attached to the forecast.
Resources
Competition for land and water in the surrounding area: the resource pressure most likely to translate into local tension around an asset.
The decision read
Action
Synthesises the four signal layers into a decision-ready read: the due diligence conditions attached to a location, and the specific triggers worth monitoring after capital is allocated.
The risks that make headlines start on the ground.
Some of the most damaging cases for companies and investors began as local signals no one picked up: child labour in a supply chain, payments to armed groups, abuses by security partners. IntegralDD reads these signals in the environment around each site, so safeguards go in before they become headlines.
What we read
Armed actors and security partners
Where armed groups are active around a site, or security forces have a record of abuses.
Gender-based violence and sexual exploitation
Where conditions around a project, such as conflict, labour influx or weak services, raise the risk of exploitation and abuse, including of children.
Vulnerable groups
Where Indigenous peoples, displaced people, refugees or marginalised communities live near a site and could be harmed or excluded.
Child and forced labour
Where the local context and the commodities involved point to a higher risk of child or forced labour.
How it works
Your operations
- The operating environment: what IntegralDD reads
- Early alarm, raised from signals around the site
- Guardrails your E&S and ESG teams put in place
- Your operations: not audited by IntegralDD
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We read the environment, not your operations.
Signals come from the context around a site: conflict, displacement, survey and news data. We don't claim to detect what happens inside your operations.
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We ring the alarm early.
Flags arrive before close, or as conditions shift, while there is still time to act.
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Your teams put the guardrails in place.
We work alongside your E&S and ESG teams, giving them information they would otherwise miss. We support them; we don't replace them.
Where sourcing runs through high-risk areas, we also support supply-chain analysis to help derisk it.
Who it's for
DFIs and development banks
Screen pipelines across new and existing countries for both risk to the portfolio and risk of harm, and focus supervision where conditions are moving.
Commercial banks
Price on the conditions at the asset's actual location, and spot community risks that could come back to the lender.
Impact and blended finance funds
Judge the impact case and the risk case together, and set the conditions that protect the investment and the people around it.
Infrastructure and private equity funds
Follow how a long-hold asset and its surroundings affect each other after close, with clear triggers for when to act.
Corporates and industrials
Understand the local conditions around a plant, mine or corridor, the footprint operations leave on them, and the reputational exposure that can follow.
Conditions and monitoring triggers, not red flags and exclusions.
IntegralDD is built to help capital reach African frontier markets responsibly and with the right guardrails. We are transparent whenever the evidence is uncertain, we do not smooth data into a single confident number.
Inputs used
Governance
41Moderate
Conflict
58Moderate
Climate
66High
Resources
37Low
Before close
Stakeholder engagement
Engage community leaders, youth associations and women's groups early, and co-design local hiring and benefit-sharing with them.
Condition: Benefit-sharing arrangements agreed with community groups before financial close.
Ongoing monitoring
Adaptive monitoring
Track security conditions along the access corridor through the construction period.
Trigger: Review if conflict events near the site rise above their recent pattern for two consecutive quarters.