Catalytic Capital: Unlocking Africa’s Impact Potential
Catalytic Capital: The Role of Impact-Linked Finance in Mobilizing Private Capital in Africa
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Co-Investing For Impact In Africa
This webinar focuses on how Co-investment in Africa can be challenging. Investors face hurdles in navigating competition, building trust, and aligning expectations around social impact, financial returns, governance, exits, due diligence, and fee structures. And yet, co-investment comes with many benefits. Opportunities to reduce costs, share expertise, deepen networks, fill out funding rounds and scale […]
The Role of Corporate Africa in Putting SDGs Back on Track
We explore how Safaricom, a leading telecommunications company in Africa, has successfully embedded SDGs into its business strategy, making it a recognised global leader in this process. The webinar features Joe Ogutu, the Chair of Safaricom Foundation, and Karen Basiye, Director of Sustainable Business and Social Impact and Eve Serro, Senior Manager, Sustainability who share […]
Unlocking Africa’s Growth Potential by Strengthening Impact Practice Among Fund Managers
Eva Abel is an Investment Manager at Oryx Impact Oryx Impact is a new impact fund aiming to unlock Africa’s growth potential and promote resilient and sustainable societies across the continent. The ultimate impact goal of the fund is to reduce global and regional inequalities as well as displacement and forced migration within and outside […]
The State of Innovative Finance in South Africa
South Africa’s SDG Index Score is 63.7 out of 100, ranking 108 out of 163 countries, and is only on track to achieve two SDGs (gender equality and responsible consumption and production) by 2030. The country continues to struggle with social challenges, from rising youth unemployment, and strains on its utility infrastructure, particularly in the electricity and water sectors, […]
Priming Private Sector Investment in Climate Adaptation Innovations in East Africa
An in-depth research report, issued by the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA), with support from the Lemelson Foundation, on the role investors and innovators can play in accelerating private sector investment for physical climate adaptation solutions in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda. The report outlines the barriers and opportunities for investment in climate adaptation technologies in […]
AVPA and Convergence have renewed a Memorandum of Understanding
Kigali, Rwanda: 17 May 2024: AVPA and Convergence have renewed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) through a strategic framework aimed at expanding the Blended Finance ecosystem across Africa. AVPA is the leading pan-African network and ecosystem builder for social investors, bringing together investors to collaborate, mobilise, and deploy capital across grants, debt, or equity, as […]