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Unlocking Capital for Social Impact Across Africa
AVPA March Newsletter 2023
March marks Women’s history month across the globe; a time when women’s hard-won economic, social, cultural and political achievements are celebrated. The theme for this year is #EmbraceEquity. This campaign seeks to stimulate conversation on why we should champion equity rather than equality. Equity factors in that we are not all starting on equal footing and […]
Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World (video)
Investment professional and author of the book “Scaling Impact: Finance and Investing for a Better World,” Kusi Hornberger joined us for a webinar to unpack some paradigm-shifting lessons from his book. We explored how blended finance and impact investing can help scale and magnify impact and accelerate progress toward tackling the world’s greatest challenges. And […]
Catalytic Capital: Unlocking Africa’s Impact Potential (video)
We discuss how catalytic capital has been deployed to address the social and economic needs of various underserved populations in Africa and how it can be applied to unlock Africa’s impact potential with Impact Investing Ghana and Aceli Africa.
AVPA April Newsletter 2023
Over the last few months, AVPA hosted a series of webinars on Catalytic Capital that provided a deep dive into the topic, including its potential, benefits, and practical applications. We were overwhelmed by the excellent turnout for these webinars and learnt immensely from the experts who showcased their work in Catalytic Capital. In this series […]
AVPA May Newsletter 2023
May was a highly eventful month for the social investment community in the West Africa Region. The first-ever West Africa Deal Summit themed ‘Conversations that move Catalytic Capital for Impact’ was held on the 16th and 17th of May in Accra and doubled as the second Ghana Impact Summit. Organised by Impact Investing Ghana, and the […]
2023 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship: Open Session
Africa’s Impact Investing story is just beginning to take shape, and it is already showing unique characteristics that are specific to the African context. As a leading network of social investors and ecosystem builder, AVPA is at the forefront of this movement, conducting research, capacity-building programmes, networking events, and conversations with social investment stakeholders on […]
Deal Share Live – Healthcare
For this live pitching session, we will feature high-impact entrepreneurs in the healthcare space. These enterprises have been nominated by funders from AVPA’s African Healthcare Funders Forum. The portfolio companies are currently raising to pitch. More details to follow. About Deal Share Live The AVPA Deal Share Live is an avenue for the Deal Share […]
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 […]
The Rise of The Impact Economy
AVPA is excited to welcome Tom Hall, the Global Head of Social Impact and Philanthropy at UBS, for a conversation on the paradigm shift from output economics to impact economics, based on the UBS white paper, “The Rise of the Impact Economy” Over the past decade, the output economy, measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), has grown. But the […]