The AVPA Mental Health Fund is embedded within the Coalition for Mental Health Investment (CMHI) — a high-profile global coalition co-founded by AVPA alongside the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), the Wellcome Trust, Kokoro, and the McKinsey Health Institute. The coalition is co-chaired by Chelsea Clinton and rotating leads from the founding partners. The World Health Organization (WHO) participates as a formal observer.
AVPA’s specific role is as the structuring, coordinating, and fund management partner for the Catalytic Pooled Fund — responsible for the fund’s architecture, governance design, pipeline development, implementing partner vetting, impact measurement, and capital mobilisation specifically for Africa. AVPA also leverages its Deal Share Platform to convene investors, philanthropies, and ecosystem actors.
Why AVPA is the partner of choice:
- African-led, African-owned: AVPA is the continent’ s foremost venture philanthropy and impact investing alliance, with deep roots across East, West, and Southern Africa. An African-led fund ensures cultural fit, contextual intelligence, and genuine community ownership.
- Proven infrastructure: AVPA operates institutional-grade governance, compliance systems, and fund management capabilities — with a vetted pipeline of African health and social enterprises.
- Unmatched convening power: AVPA convenes 400+ delegates annually across 30+ countries, linking private capital, foundations, DFIs, and governments in ways few African organisations can replicate.
- Blended finance expertise: AVPA specialises in the precise tools needed — blended finance structuring, impact measurement, and outcomes-based contracting — to de-risk mental health investment for commercial capital.
- World-class coalition backing: CMHI partners bring global networks, evidence standards, and reputational credibility that multiply AVPA’ s reach and influence.
Regulatory stability: The Fund is domiciled in Mauritius — offering a proven investment-grade regulatory environment for international capital.