• 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
    • Our Impact Programs

      2024 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship

      Africa Climate Investing Forum

      African Healthcare Funders Forum

    • Upcoming Events

Primary Healthcare Impact Fund

Primary Healthcare Impact Fund

Investing in Primary Health Care to Strengthen Health Systems across Africa Webinar on innovative financing for developing and scaling primary healthcare projects in Africa.

AVPA Deal share demo session | 8 December 2020

The AVPA Deal Share Platform is a community for social investors to share opportunities amongst themselves. Social investors include foundations, corporates, family offices, impact fund managers, donors, DFIs and others who deploy capital in Africa to achieve social impact.  Deal Share allows social investors to endorse capital requests by current, past or upcoming investees and […]

DEAL SHARE PANEL DISCUSSION Co-Investing for Impact in Africa | 9 December 2020

  DEAL SHARE PANEL DISCUSSION Co-Investing for Impact in Africa Wednesday, 9th December 202014:00 Lagos; 15:00 Johannesburg; 16:00 Nairobi 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 […]

Blended Finance Opportunities To Meet the SDGs

The broader theme in having this virtual seminar series is about igniting thought leadership, collaboration and action around the adoption of innovative financing models that will help Kenya, and by extention East Africa, Build Back Stronger post COVID, while also achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). View Reports for more info  

DFC Announces Direct Equity Request for Applications

December 1, 2020 DFC seeks applications to invest in early, growth-stage companies committed to developmental impact WASHINGTON – U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) Office of Equity Investments (OEI) today announced the Direct Equity Request for Applications, which invites early and growth-stage companies, working to solve critical development challenges, to submit an application for direct equity […]

The Angel Accelerator, powered by AVPA (video)

Has it crossed your mind if accelerators were just for startups?! Most are, but The Angel Accelerator has taken the learnings from those programs and applied them to teaching people how to be Angel investors for those startups. This video is an excerpt from the webinar that describes how the program works, what topics are […]

The Angel Accelerator, Powered by AVPA

The Angel Accelerator, Powered by AVPA Webinar and Training Series beginning January 2021 AVPA is partnering with The Angel Accelerator to bring you a series of workshops on angel investing for impact in Africa. The 12-week program begins March 3rd, and will leverage the learnings from the startup accelerator model to deliver hands-on training on […]

The Angel Accelerator: INVESTING WITH OR FOR IMPACT

We hope you enjoyed the last webinar we had.  If you missed it, you can watch the edited version on http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/investing-with-or-for-impact/ and http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/measuring-impact/ If you have yet to see the lessons from the previous webinar, the edited version of those lessons are on http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/philanthropy-and-investing/ And if you want to skip ahead to other lessons we’ve yet to cover, http://theangelaccelerator.com/lessons/ has a […]

AVPA Deal Share Platform

Join us for a demonstration of the new AVPA Deal Share Platform  14:00 (Nigeria) 15:00 (South Africa) 16:00 (Kenya) 4 February 2021 [Register Here] Join the platform pilot and find fresh opportunities and partners in the philanthropic and impact investment space.  Recent deals added to the platform   1.  South African gender lens SME investor endorses food packaging business in South […]

Gender Lens Investment

AVPA’s Gender Platform activities will kick off in the month of February 2021 with a series of webinar conversations on topics relevant to the three communities of practice:  Financing Women Entrepreneurs – A Conversation with Social Investors Gender lens investment funds and initiatives have proliferated in Africa over the last few years. And yet, both […]