2023 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship

The Fellowship costs USD 1500. Applications close on August 4, 2023

Join the 2023 AVPA Fellowship for Impact Leaders on the continent

Join the 2023 AVPA Fellowship for Impact Leaders on the continent. Build a network of social investors across Africa, gain the techniques and frameworks to integrate impact into your portfolio, and forge stronger alliances with your peers to drive more capital towards social investments.

A Spotlight On Africa

AVPA is announcing the 2023 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship to nurture deployers of impact capital – Grants, Debt, and Equity – into becoming more effective impact investing practitioners. This Fellowship will build the capacity and knowledge of Fellows in areas such as Innovative Finance, Impact Measurement and Management, and Leadership in Complexity. The Fellowship aims to ultimately increase the flow of social investment capital into Africa.

About The Fellowship

The Fellowship will select individuals in Africa who embody the values and skills needed to develop a strong impact investing sector. The programme will equip the Fellows with the right information and resources, knowledge, networks, and insight on how to build an impact strategy, manage a portfolio, define, evaluate and manage impact, among other skills. The Fellowship runs from September to early December.

Why It Is Necessary

Impact investing is at its nascent stage in Africa. Although it is now getting an increasing level of attention from various actors in the social investment ecosystem, only a handful of impact funds and foundations are actually practising impact investing. The obstacles that are hindering impact investing from gaining traction in Africa amongst wealth holders and their advisors include the lack of capacity building programmes, the perception that it will necessitate a trade-off on financial returns, a lack of an investment-ready pipeline, inexperience in managing a portfolio, and the complexities in defining and evaluating impact measurement.

Benefits

Understand the latest regional and global trends

Be immersed in a strong impact investing network and deepen your knowledge

Grow your network

Build rapport with leading practitioners in Africa and explore collaboration opportunities

Enhance your impact investing skills

Enhance know-how and gain innovative tools to apply an impact lens to your investing strategy

Fellowship Agenda

The Leadership Programme will comprise ten, 90-minute sessions that follow two tracks:

September :

Introduction and Orientation

Module 1—Navigating the Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing Ecosystem

Understand current market trends, opportunities, and challenges
Identify leaders and key players
Develop individual impact journey
Introduce Fellowship action learning exercise

October:
Module 2—Strategic Learning and Impact Measurement and Management

Developing your impact journey
Impact Measurement and Management
Understand Measurement and ESG

November:
Module 3 — Sustainable Finance and Impact Capital

Learn Innovative and Blended Financing Models
Tap Grantmaking and Impact Investing to Family Offices and Wealth Managers

Early December — Graduation

Experts

Gayle Peterson

Senior Manager

pfc Social Impact Advisors

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Frank Aswani

CEO

AVPA

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Robert Yawson

Professor of Management

Quinnipiac University

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Sandrine Henton

Managing Director

EG Capital

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Florence Gatome

Africa Director

NIRAS

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Bridget Kustin

Director, The Ownership Project 2.0

Said Business School Oxford University

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Ashleigh Fynn

Head of Philanthropies

Oppenheimer Generations

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Lerato Lehoko

Portfolio Manager

Yellowoods

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Erik Sukumaran

Principle Research Lead

Oxford Faith-Aligned Investment Programme

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Kate Walsh

Associate Director, Faith Based Investment Initiatives

The GIIN

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Abayomi Alawode

Head of Islamic Finance, Finance and Markets Global Practice

World Bank Group

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Karim Harji

Programme Director Impact Measurement Programme

Said Business School, Oxford University

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Amma Lartey

CEO

Impact Investing Ghana

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Kennedy Okongo

Director

East Africa Medical Credit Fund, East Africa PharmAccess Group

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Peter Hinton

Associate Fellow

Said Business School, University of Oxford: Medical Credit Fund Blended Capital Model

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Participants: Funders

About Us

Our Team

Dr Frank Aswani

Chief Executive Officer

Nasri Adam

Regional Director - East Africa

Tochukwu Ezeukwu

Regional Director - West Africa

Matebe Chisiza

Regional Director - Southern Africa

Members

Become An AVPA Member

Connect

Connect with fellow social investors and impact opportunities.

Learn

Learn from cutting-edge training programs & knowledge products.

Influence

Influence the ecosystem through your thought leadership.

Scale

Mobilize and deploy capital to scale your impact across Africa.

Capital Mobilisation

Find Investment For Impact

AMOUNT: $3M

Winich Farms – Nigeria

AMOUNT: $3M

Miyonga Fresh Greens – Kenya

AMOUNT: $6M

FarmWorks – Kenya

Impact Communities

Our Impact Communities

Climate

Climate Finance for a Sustainable Future

Healthcare

Investing in Africa’s Healthcare Future.

Education

Investing in Africa’s Education Future.

Knowledge Centre

Our Impact Programs

2024 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship

Africa Climate Investing Forum

African Healthcare Funders Forum

Events

Upcoming Events

Register: The 2024 AVPA Conference

Webinar: Putting the SDGs Back on Track, Part 3

Investment Outlook 2024 – West Africa; What the Data and Trends Say, and What They Mean for Funding Flows, Fund Managers, and Venture Builders.