AVPA August Newsletter 2022
A warm hello to our AVPA community. It is both an honour and an ideal time for me to write the foreword for this month’s newsletter as the AVPA Southern Africa Director and a South African native. The month of August is a special month dedicated to women in South Africa. Read More.
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AVPA and UNDP Announce Partnership to Grow Sustainable Finance and SDGs in Africa
African Venture Philanthropy Alliance and United Nations Development Programme announce partnership to grow Sustainable Finance in Africa, support Sustainable Development Goal targets Nairobi, Kenya / Johannesburg, South Africa – 13 September 2022: The African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA), a Pan-African network of social investors collaborating to mobilise and deploy capital for impact and the United […]
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 […]
AVPA September Newsletter 2022
The $4.2 trillion needed to address the SDGs is about 1% of the ~$430 trillion in the global financial markets – we need to converge profit and purpose of private capital and specifically work at unlocking African private capital for impact. Read More.
Widening and Deepening Impact through Innovative Solutions that Uplift the Marginalized
Andia Chakava is an Investment Director at the Graça Machel Trust and a global thought leader in gender lens investing Graça Machel Trust is a Pan-African advocacy organisation focused on child health and nutrition, education, women’s economic and financial empowerment, leadership and good governance. Over the last nine years, the Trust has worked to “Multiply […]
AVPA October Newsletter 2022
Africa makes up 16% of the world’s population and carries 23% of the global disease burden, yet only 1% of total global health expenditure goes to the continent. In per capita terms, the rest of the world spends 10 times more on health care than Africa. This is unacceptable and one of the reasons why […]
AVPA November Newsletter 2022
The flow of capital to SMEs in Africa is yet to match the intensity of the prevailing policy rhetoric on SME financing despite broad consensus on the importance of SMEs to job creation and economic development. Across Africa, access to finance remains a key constraint to SME growth and is one of the most cited […]
Catalytic Capital: The Evolving Role of Philanthropy (video)
Speaker, William Asiko, is a seasoned philanthropy and impact investing expert and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the topic. He discusses how catalytic capital can be used to drive impact and innovation, and how philanthropy is adapting to meet the changing needs of communities and organizations in Africa. Whether you are a […]
Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World
Investment professional and author of the book “Scaling Impact: Finance and Investing for a Better World,” Kusi Hornberger, is joining us for a webinar to unpack some paradigm-shifting lessons from his book. We will explore how blended finance and impact investing can help scale and magnify impact and accelerate progress toward tackling the world’s greatest challenges. An Excerpt:“The […]