{"id":27259,"date":"2025-10-22T15:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norfundweb.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=27259"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:23:02","slug":"frontier-facility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.norfund.no\/no\/frontier-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontier Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Frontier Facility is a separate fund used for projects with a higher risk than those in Norfund\u2019s portfolio and for our most demanding markets.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the most important obstacles to investments in developing countries is the insufficient supply of well-prepared and investment-ready projects available to investors, including Norfund. One reason for this is that private investors often lack sufficient capital to meet the investment requirements related to project development, such as environmental impact assessments and legal and technical studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, the Norwegian Parliament therefore granted 100 million NOK to a new facility for project development and risk mitigation, managed by Norfund \u2013 the Frontier Facility. This facility allows Norfund to take on higher risk when investing in early phase project development and reduce risk for commercial investors in the most demanding markets, especially in vulnerable states and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). In these countries in particular, there is limited access to risk capital for project development and risk relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facility served two purposes:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n