Applying Impact Investing Strategies to the COVID-19 Crisis
The Bertha Centre and Impact Investing South Africa (IISA) hosted a webinar, titled Applying impact investing strategies to the COVID-19 crisis. The event focused on the relevance of public and private sector collaboration in COVID-19 emergency and recovery responses, highlighting the opportunities for private investors and philanthropic capital to contribute to recovery and stabilisation efforts.
Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world- University of Cape Town
To address global poverty – do we really not have enough resources or do we not have the right tools to allocate our resources? The tools of finance, when applied correctly, can be an enabler of social and environmental outcomes. This course is designed to give you the ability to build innovative financing strategies that […]
Equity, Inclusion And the Evolution Of Venture Finance
Commitments to gender and racial representation in financial markets have been escalating over the past several years, from Goldman Sachs to the International Finance Corporation. And it’s no wonder, research from McKinsey & Co. has indicated that companies in the top quartiles for ethnic diversity are 35 per cent more likely to generate higher than […]
Women in African Investments
The Organisation supports women fund managers through networking, knowledge-sharing and awareness-building to catalyse gender-equitable economic growth in Africa. Members include senior executives at DFIs, PE/VC funds, Philanthropic funds, FinTech intermediaries, Family Offices and Market development organisations. The WAI Group makes women fund managers visible, holds our industry accountable and combats inequalities in access to capital. […]
A Toolkit to track Gender Diversity at your workplace
Know that gender diversity is good for business. Creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce makes good business sense, positively impacting your bottom line. Diverse leadership teams boost innovation. Research by McKinsey shows that more gender-diverse companies do 15% better financially and companies with greater ethnic and racial diversity have 35% greater financial returns. […]
The State of Women’s Economic Rights Worldwide
While significant progress has been made over time, women still face entrepreneurship and employment barriers. In fact, on average around the globe, women have just three-quarters of the legal economic rights granted to men. Equal opportunities are important not only from a human rights perspective, but also from an economic perspective. When women are able […]
Meet the Women that make up our Global Leadership Network
We search the world for women leaders with daring vision for change, and partner with her to make that vision a reality. Read More here: here
Survey to explore growth barriers faced by Female Entrepreneurs in East
Despite experiencing capital and cultural constraints women continue to pursue entrepreneurship as a path to financial freedom for themselves and their families and in doing so have found innovative ways to keep their businesses running. This research is unique as it is one of few studies that looks at women entrepreneurs from a regional perspective, […]
Emerging Market Small & Growing Business Capital Provider’s Survey Results
To better understand impact of COVID-19 on small and growing businesses and the local capital providers that support them, the Collaborative for Frontier Finance, with the support of Visa Foundation, conducted a survey of capital managers that target SGBs in emerging markets. The survey is a snapshot of this critical sector pre- and post-COVID-19 in […]
Closing the Gaps – Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles 2019
The Collaborative for Frontier Finance and its founding members have produced a follow-up report to the “Missing Middles: Segmenting Enterprises to Better Understand Their Financial Needs” which identified four distinct families of SGBs each with diverse characteristics and external financing needs. The new report: “Closing the Gaps: Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles” identifies […]