Future generations first
Today’s decisions should leave children and future citizens with more opportunity, capability and security—not fewer options.
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Values for future generations
The Investment & Development Fund is built around a simple question: what will today’s choices leave for the people who come next?
The promise
Don’t just extract wealth. Build a future.
National assets should help build a stronger country for the people who live there now—and for their children and future generations.
Country benefit before short-term gain
Natural wealth should create lasting national value, not only immediate revenue or a one-off transaction.
Build, don’t just sell
The aim is to turn national assets into power, water, food, health, education, jobs and stronger communities.
Keep more value at home
Where it makes economic and legal sense, countries should retain more of the value created by their own assets.
Reinvest success
A successful project should help finance the next project, gradually growing the productive asset base.
Responsible stewardship
Development must respect people, land, water, ecosystems, culture and the long-term national interest.
Trust through transparency
Ownership, evidence, money flows, decisions and results should be understandable and independently reviewable.
Partnership rather than extraction
External capital and specialist partners should leave productive capability behind, not simply remove value.
A practical standard
Financial discipline and national purpose must work together.
These values do not replace commercial assessment, legal structure or risk management. They define what the investment is meant to leave behind.
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