National Blueprint · One of 195
A nation of 14.4 million on the shore of the second-largest freshwater lake on Earth by volume, where one citizen in five has electricity.
Perfect Nations values what Burundi owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).
Burundi at a glance
What we do for Burundi
Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.
The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.
01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Burundi toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.
18,880 km³Volume of Lake Tanganyika
The second-largest single body of fresh water on Earth, shared with three neighbours.
74.2%Of land in agriculture, 2024
Coffee and tea on steep, densely farmed hills.
61.3%Renewable share of electricity output, 2021
The Jiji and Mulembwe hydropower plants, 49.5 MW together, were inaugurated in June 2025 and June 2026.
14.0%Natural resource rents, share of GDP, 2021
Minerals and forest rents that are not yet linked to a standard of living.
14.4mCitizens, 2025
Three in four live in the countryside. Remittances equal 8.1% of GDP.
02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture
Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Burundi owns, every line sourced.
Capital ArchitectureThe record in figures
Capital already committed
Announced 10 December 2025 · IDA grant · Government adds $10 million
Bujumbura water plant, rural sanitation
A new treatment plant adds 60,000 m³ of water a day to Bujumbura. Clean water for 615,000 people, about 490,000 of them piped at home, and basic sanitation for 55,000 people in rural areas: the Bank’s first water and sanitation operation in Burundi in more than 15 years.
World Bank
SourceApproved 19 December 2024 · Investment project financing
Hillside communities
Strengthens the resilience of hillside communities and landscapes.
World Bank
SourceIssued 19 December 2024 · Breach of contract cover · Up to three years
Covers the feasibility phase for now
Covers Anzana Electric Group’s investment in Weza Power against breach of the project agreement. Weza Power is a new private utility in a public-private partnership to extend electricity distribution and rural electrification, the energy standard.
MIGAAnzana Electric Group
SourceApproved 22 July 2024 · Investment project financing
Health, nutrition and early years
Invests in the health and learning of children and families.
World Bank
SourceApproved 1 July 2024 · Investment project financing
Bujumbura and other towns
Protects towns against floods and lake-level rise.
World Bank
SourceApproved 26 June 2024 · Investment project financing
Electricity access
Part of the regional programme to connect households and services to clean power.
World Bank
SourceAnnounced 10 January 2024 · IDA grant · Two-year trade facility at the central bank
Fertilizer and medicine imports
Backs commercial banks’ letters of credit for imports of fertilizer and pharmaceuticals while the currency is liberalised, through the Banque de la République du Burundi. About 2 million smallholder farmers are expected to benefit from the fertilizer.
World Bank
SourceApproved 1 December 2023 · Investment project financing
Private sector and jobs
Supports firms and value chains that create jobs.
World Bank
SourceApproved 30 September 2022 · Investment project financing
Roads that hold in the rains
Improves the resilience of key transport links.
World Bank
SourceApproved 14 December 2021 · Investment project financing
Plus $50m additional financing, May 2024
Cash transfers and productive inclusion for poor households.
World Bank
SourceApproved 22 April 2014 · Jiji inaugurated June 2025 · Mulembwe inaugurated June 2026
Plus $50m additional financing, January 2024
Built two hydropower plants in the south of the country, 32.5 MW at Jiji and 17 MW at Mulembwe, which the African Development Bank says will nearly double national generation capacity. Clean power for a grid that reaches one citizen in five.
World Bank
SourceAdditional grant announced 24 October 2025 · African Development Fund, Climate Action Window · To 2029
Adds to about $13.3m approved in 2023
Safe drinking water for about 500,000 people in Bubanza, Cibitoke, Cankuzo, Rutana and Ruyigi, with 17 solar-powered water systems, eco-friendly sanitation and irrigation. About 2,700 jobs, 80% of them for young people and women.
African Development Bank
SourceAnnounced 5 June 2025 · Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa
Preparation of the public-private utility
Speeds the preparation of Weza Power, the public-private utility planned to extend electricity across Burundi, including its environmental and social work before full operations begin.
African Development Bank
SourceAnnounced 15 October 2024 · Grant
Pilot of 40,000 new connections
Funds a pilot to connect more than 40,000 new households and businesses from 2025, and the preparation of a national network expansion under the public-private partnership.
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
SourceAnnounced 11 February 2025 · Long-term project finance debt · ATIDI political risk cover
10.65 MW in two small hydropower plants
Project finance for two run-of-the-river plants in south-central Burundi, 1.65 MW and 9.0 MW, expected on the grid in 2025 and 2027. Private power for a grid that reaches one citizen in five.
TDB GroupATIDIAnzana Electric Group
Source
Aline IradukundaNation Steward of Burundi · SI Researcher
Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Burundi, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.
Working in Burundi as Tubura since 2011: seed and fertilizer on credit, training from field officers and tree seedlings for smallholders; it reports 383,000 farmers served.
One Acre Fund03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita
Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Burundi in its own prices.
How Perfect Capita worksTap a star for its figure and source.
The price of Perfect Burundi
To be set with Burundi, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Burundi, each year.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Burundi. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
Solution No. 04
Solar mini-grids and electric cooking reach the hill villages, financed connection by connection.
14.4mBurundians who cook without clean fuel
You live on the edge of one of the great reservoirs of the world. … The water is vast. The light, the clinic and the wage have not yet reached most of you.
“The lake and the hills are already yours. The work is to turn them into light, care and income.”
Work with us · The ReDesign Studio
One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Burundi, taken as far toward market as you choose.
For the Government of Burundi, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.
Mandate 013 hours
A private session for the people who decide.
You leave withThe gap, named and sized
Mandate 023 days
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
You leave withThe structure, drawn
Mandate 03End to end
Led personally by the President and CEO.
You leave withA structure ready for market
Where Burundians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Writings
Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Burundi, published with your name.
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Co-designers
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Burundi.
Become a Co-designerThe Burundi ReDesign Studio is open
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