Join the 2024 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship
Join the 2024 AVPA Fellowship for Impact Leaders on the African continent. Build a network of social investors, gain techniques and frameworks to integrate impact into your portfolio, and forge alliances with peers to drive more capital towards social investments.
The Fellowship costs USD 1,500, and applications close on September 12, 2024.
A Spotlight On Africa
AVPA is announcing the 2024 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship to nurture deployers of impact capital? Grants, Debt, and Equity? into becoming more effective impact investing practitioners. This Fellowship will build the capacity and knowledge of Fellows in areas such as Innovative Finance, Impact Measurement and Management, and Leadership in Complexity. The Fellowship aims to ultimately increase the flow of social investment capital into Africa.
About The Fellowship
The Fellowship will select individuals in Africa who embody the values and skills needed to develop a strong impact investing sector.
The programme will equip the Fellows with the right information and resources, knowledge, networks, and insight on how to build an impact strategy, manage a portfolio, define, evaluate and manage impact, among other skills. The Fellowship runs from August to early November.
Eligibility
To qualify, applicants should deploy capital along the Continuum of Capital grants, debt, and equity. Ideal candidates are from foundations, DFIs, private equity and venture capital funds, family offices, (I)NGOs, aid agencies, governments, corporates, incubators, and accelerators. These individuals either deploy or intend to deploy capital with an impact investing lens in Africa.
Benefits
- Understand the latest regional and global trends: Gain insights into the current market trends and key players in sustainable finance.
- Grow your network: Connect with leading practitioners in Africa and explore collaboration opportunities.
- Enhance your impact investing skills: Learn innovative tools to apply an impact lens to your investing strategy.
Why It Is Necessary
Impact investing is at its nascent stage in Africa. Although it is now getting an increasing level of attention from various actors in the social investment ecosystem, only a handful of impact funds and foundations are actually practising impact investing. The obstacles that are hindering impact investing from gaining traction in Africa amongst wealth holders and their advisors include the lack of capacity building programmes, the perception that it will necessitate a trade-off on financial returns, a lack of an investment-ready pipeline, inexperience in managing a portfolio, and the complexities in defining and evaluating impact measurement.
Programme Agenda.
September: Introduction and Orientation;
Module 1
September:
Module 2
Innovative Finance and Impact Capital. Covers innovative and blended financing models, grant-making, afro-unique pools of capital and family office and wealth management.
October:
Module 3
Strategic Learning and Impact Measurement and Management. Focuses on developing impact journeys and understanding measurement.