Pages
- About Us
- Annual and Financial Reports
- Apply for Membership
- AVPA Archives
- AVPA brings together diverse players
- AVPA Is Part of a Growing Global Movement
- Careers
- Contact Us
- Cookie Policy
- Covid Platform Contact
- COVID-19
- Deal Share
- Deal Share Platform Contact Form
- Deal Share Terms and Conditions
- Events
- Gender Platform
- Gender platform contact form
- General Contact Form
- Glossary of Terms
- Insights
- Join a Global Movement
- Knowledge Hub
- Landscape Report East Africa
- Landscape Report Southern Africa
- Landscape Report West Africa
- Landscape Reports Home
- Login Page
- Membership
- Membership
- Membership Enquiry
- Newsletter.old
- Opportunities
- Payments
- Press Releases
- PRIVACY POLICY
- Request Page
- Share your initiatives
- Sitemap
- Some of the partners that work with
- State of Innovative Finance Report in SA (Download)
- Submission Successful
- Terms and Conditions
- The Africa Advantage Magazine
- Theory of Change
- Unlocking New Capital for Social Investment
- Value Hub
- Value Hub
- Value Hub Testing
- We are a unique platform for Africa that:
- Why AVPA
- Newsletter
Posts by category
- Category: Archives
- The Africa Advantage Healthcare Convening
- Putting the SDGs Back on Track (video)
- Making More Health Together
- Deal Share Live: Youth Empowerment
- Philanthropic Pooled Funds: Mobilising Capital for Impact
- Who gets the returns? A Global Journey in Catalytic Capital
- The Rise of The Impact Economy
- The State of Innovative Finance in South Africa
- Deal Share Live – Healthcare
- 2023 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship: Open Session
- Africa Social Impact Summit
- Putting the SDGs Back on Track
- Africa Impact Summit
- Catalytic Capital: Unlocking Africa’s Impact Potential (video)
- Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World (video)
- Membership Launch Event
- Catalytic Capital: Unlocking Africa’s Impact Potential
- Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World
- Impact-Linked Finance As Catalytic Capital (video)
- Catalytic Capital: The Evolving Role of Philanthropy (video)
- Impact-Linked Finance as Catalytic Capital
- Catalytic Capital: The Evolving Role of Philanthropy
- Introducing The African Healthcare Funders Forum: Fireside Chat 3
- Introduction to Managing for Impact Training Programme for Enterprises: Webinar Two (video)
- Introduction to Managing for Impact Training Programme for Enterprises: Webinar One (video)
- Introducing The African Healthcare Funders Forum: Fireside Chat 2 (video)
- Introducing The African Healthcare Funders Forum: Fireside Chat 1 (video)
- Introducing The African Healthcare Funders Forum: Fireside Chat 1
- Catalytic Capital: The Role of Impact-Linked Finance in Mobilizing Private Capital for Impact in Africa (video)
- Driving Africa’s Development Through Sustainable Finance: The Role of Financial Institutions (Video)
- Driving Africa’s Development Through Sustainable Finance: The Role of Financial Institutions
- SUSTAINABLE FINANCING: The Channel to Africa’s Sustainable Development (video)
- Sustainable Finance: The Future We Want (Video)
- Catalytic Capital: The Role of Impact-Linked Finance in Mobilizing Private Capital for Impact in Africa
- SUSTAINABLE FINANCING: The Channel to Africa’s Sustainable Development
- SUSTAINABLE FINANCING: The Future We Want
- Africa-Asia Impact Investing Fellowship
- COVID IN AFRICA. A Symposium on Vaccine Hesitancy and Access – Evidence from the Field
- Propelling Agri-SMEs from Early to Growth Stage Investment
- Launch of the Crowdfunding for Impact E-Talk Series
- Development Impact Bonds
- The Angel Accelerator, Powered by AVPA
- DFC Announces Direct Equity Request for Applications
- DEAL SHARE PANEL DISCUSSION Co-Investing for Impact in Africa | 9 December 2020
- AVPA Deal share demo session | 8 December 2020
- The Landscape for Social Investments in West Africa
- The Landscape Study for Social Investments in Southern Africa
- The Landscape Study for Social Investments in East Africa
- Open now: Call for applications for sponsored Gender Lens Technical Assistance (South Africa)
- Changemakers United Africa 2020 Summit
- The challenge of 2030 SDG Financing in Africa – Why we need a different approach
- The AVPA Landscape Study for Social Investments In East Africa, Date: November 17th 2020
- The AVPA Landscape Study for Social Investments In Southern Africa, Date: November 12th 2020
- Primary Healthcare Impact Fund
- The AVPA Landscape Study for Social Investments in Africa Date: November 10th 2020
- AVPA Deal Share Platform Weekly Demos, Date: 11th, 18th, 25th November & 2nd December 2020
- Activating the Power of Partnerships, Date: October 22nd 2020
- #BuilbackBetter Start-Up Innovation Challenge
- GSG Global Summit 2020
- Category: Blog
- Category: Blog Regions
- Category: Burundi
- Category: Côte d’Ivoire
- Category: Blog Topic
- Category: Finance
- Category: Investment
- Category: Country / Region
- Category: Africa
- Solving Early Childhood Challenges in South Africa by De-risking Early-stage Product and Service Development
- Widening and Deepening Impact through Innovative Solutions that Uplift the Marginalized
- Unlocking Africa’s Growth Potential by Strengthening Impact Practice Among Fund Managers
- Catalyzing Private Capital for Impact Through Retail Financing
- Africa’s Renaissance: Realised Through Sustainable Finance
- Using New Instruments to Support Small Businesses
- Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods for Women and Girls
- Gender Lens Investment
- AVPA Deal Share Platform
- Cartier Women’s Initiative
- The Landscape for Social Investments in Africa
- Melanin Kapital
- Category: Asia
- Category: Central Africa
- Category: East Africa
- Category: Global
- Category: Kenya
- Category: Nigeria
- Category: Online
- Category: Rwanda
- Category: South Africa
- Category: Southern Africa
- Category: Tanzania
- Category: West Africa
- Category: Zambia
- Category: Africa
- Category: COVID-19 Response
- Category: Agriculture/alleviating hunger
- Category: Health
- Category: MSME Support
- Category: Technology
- Category: Economic Empowerment & Livelihoods
- Category: Events
- Catalytic Capital for a Global Just Transition
- 6th Annual Convening on Impact Investing
- West Africa Network Dinner
- Deal Share Live – Education Showcase
- Priming Private Sector Investment in Climate Adaptation Innovation in East Africa: Report Launch
- Closing the Capital Gap in Impact Investing in Africa
- Developing and Scaling Inclusive Business Models
- Introduction to Inclusive Business
- 2023 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship
- African Healthcare Funders Forum
- Save the Date: 2024 AVPA Conference
- The Critical Role of Corporate Africa in Putting the SDGs Back on Track – The Case of Safaricom PLC
- Investment Outlook 2024 – West Africa; What the Data and Trends Say, and What They Mean for Funding Flows, Fund Managers, and Venture Builders.
- AVPA 2024 Events Calendar
- Category: FAQs
- What are impact enterprises?
- What is SROI?
- When Will AVPA open for Membership
- What other global networks is AVPA affiliated with?
- What offerings will AVPA members be able to access?
- How does AVPA work with other networks across Africa (e.g. philanthropists, impact funds, private equity networks etc.)?
- What distinction does AVPA make between Impact Investment and Social Investment?
- What other global networks is AVPA affiliated with?
- What is social Investment?
- Who would be members of AVPA network?
- What is Venture Philanthropy?
- What does AVPA stand for?
- Category: Financial Request
- Category: $10 – $100,000
- Category: $100,000 – $1M
- Category: $10M – $100M
- Category: Financial Type
- Category: Equity
- Category: Grant
- Category: None Specified
- Category: Gender Lens Investment
- Category: Health & Safety
- Category: News
- AVPA April Newsletter 2024
- AVPA March Newsletter 2024
- AVPA January Newsletter 2024
- AVPA November Newsletter 2023
- AVPA October Newsletter 2023
- AVPA September Newsletter 2023
- AVPA August Newsletter 2023
- AVPA May Newsletter 2023
- AVPA April Newsletter 2023
- AVPA March Newsletter 2023
- AVPA February Newsletter 2023
- AVPA November Newsletter 2022
- AVPA October Newsletter 2022
- AVPA September Newsletter 2022
- AVPA August Newsletter 2022
- AVPA July Newsletter 2022
- AVPA June Newsletter 2022
- AVPA May Newsletter 2022
- AVPA April Newsletter 2022
- AVPA March Newsletter 2022
- AVPA December Newsletter 2021
- AVPA November Newsletter 2021
- AVPA September Newsletter 2021
- AVPA August Newsletter 2021
- AVPA July Newsletter 2021
- AVPA June Newsletter 2021
- AVPA May Newsletter 2021
- AVPA April Newsletter 2021
- AVPA Newsletter 2019
- AVPA Newsletter 2020
- Reasons To Explain Fast Business Builder.
- How To Go About Initiating An Start-up.
- GSG Impact Summit 2017
- Venture Philanthropy & Social Investment in the age of a changing Europe
- The power to make real choices
- Social Impact Bond by Smarter Futures
- Providing peer social counselling to refugees in Germany
- Catalysing more and better venture philanthropy in the UK
- Investment opportunity: Good Fashion Fund
- Category: Newsletter
- Category: Non-Financial Request
- Category: Information sharing
- Category: None Specified
- Category: Partners
- Category: Relationship building with other developed Commodity Exchanges
- Category: Organisation Type
- Category: For-Profit
- Category: Government
- Category: Non-Profit
- Category: Social Enterprise
- Category: Platforms
- Category: Gender Platform
- Rural To Global Organization
- In Their Hands
- IBM
- Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Rwanda
- WIC Capital
- Mamamoni
- Shared Value Africa Initiative
- Anteja Africa
- WeBloom Africa
- Caswell Capital
- Mirepa Investment Advisors
- Education sub-Saharan Africa
- ABSA Group Ltd
- The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP)
- Aga Khan Foundation
- Agricultural Finance Corporation
- Plan International
- Category: Beneficiary
- Sterling Bank
- Rising Tide Africa
- FCBM
- AGS Tribes
- Afrigrants Foundation
- Access Bank
- Ashoka SA
- Category: Children and Youths
- Category: Female Entrepreneurs
- Category: GBV Survivors
- Category: Health Workers
- Category: Persons With Disabilities
- Category: Women and girls
- Category: Women in Leadership
- Category: Women-led Businesses
- Category: Women-led Households
- Category: Country
- ABSA
- Category: Africa-wide
- Category: Belgium
- Category: Gambia
- Category: Ghana
- Category: Kenya
- Category: Nigeria
- Category: North Africa
- Category: Rwanda
- Category: Senegal
- Category: South Africa
- Category: Southern Africa
- Category: Tanzania
- Category: Uganda
- Category: West Africa
- Category: Zambia
- Category: Response Category
- Category: Affordable housing
- Category: Agribusiness
- Category: Agriculture
- Category: Business
- Category: Climate Action and Environment Conservation
- Category: Economic Empowerment & Livelihood
- Category: Education
- Category: Energy
- Category: Entrepreneurship
- Category: Finance
- Category: Financial Inclusion
- Category: Health and Nutrition
- Category: Leadership and Governance
- Category: Media
- Category: Policy and Government
- Category: Safety and Gender Based Violence
- Category: SMEs Support
- Category: Training and Mentoring
- Category: WASH
- Category: Women Fund Management
- Category: Youth Employment
- Category: Gender Platform
- Category: Press Releases
- Convergence and AVPA Deepen Partnership to Expand Blended Finance Across Africa
- Social Investors Network Launches Magazine Showcasing Africa as a Globally Competitive Destination of Impact Capital
- Report Reveals Investment Blockages in Countering East Africa’s Climate Change Devastation
- AVPA and UNDP Announce Partnership to Grow Sustainable Finance and SDGs in Africa
- AVPA & Impact Philanthropy Africa Sign MOU to Support Philanthropic Giving
- Amid Widening SDGs Financing Gap, Alliance Invests in Building New Generation of African Impact Investors
- Announcing the African Healthcare Funders Forum
- Networks Partner to Catalyze Impact Investing in Africa
- First Impact Investing Fellowship for Asset Owners and Managers in Asia and Africa
- AVPA Launches Africa Social Investment Landscape Mapping Study Report
- AVPA Launches East Africa Social Investment Landscape Mapping Study Report
- AVPA Launches Southern Africa Social Investment Landscape Mapping Study Report
- AVPA Launches West Africa Social Investment Landscape Mapping Report
- Category: Projects
- Category: Uncategorized
- Category: Vacancy Notices
- Category: Value Hub
- Category: Author
- Financing Water Impact
- Guide to Legal Forms for Social Enterprises in South Africa
- Category: 20-First
- Category: Accion Venture Lab
- Category: ACT Foundation
- Category: Advisor Channel
- Category: Arifu Insights
- Category: Aunnie Patton Power
- Category: AVPA
- Category: Bertha Centre for Innovative Finance
- Category: CASE
- Category: Collaborative for Frontier Finance
- Category: Collaborative for Frontier Finance (Omidyar Network / Dutch Good Growth Fund [DGGF])
- Category: Convergence
- Category: EIB and European Commission InnovFin Advisory
- Category: Entrepreneur
- Category: EVPA
- Category: External
- Category: Global Leadership Network
- Category: Global Philanthropy Alliance
- Category: GRAÇA MACHEL TRUST
- Category: Iftin Fatah
- Category: Impact Alpha
- Category: Intellecap Advisory Services
- Category: King Baudouin Foundation United States
- Category: McKinsey Global Institute
- Category: National Crime Research Centre
- Category: The African Report
- Category: The Angel Accelerator
- Category: The Bridgespan Group
- Category: The IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
- Category: The Rockefeller Foudation
- Category: The Start Up
- Category: The Tony Elumelu Foundation
- Category: Village Capital
- Category: Visa Foundation
- Category: WAI Group
- Category: Wharton Social Impact Initiative
- Category: World Bank
- Category: Content Type
- Category: Articles & Reports
- Priming Private Sector Investment in Climate Adaptation Innovations in East Africa
- The State of Innovative Finance in South Africa
- Impact-Investing-Handbook
- 12 Steps To Implement ESG Reporting At Your Company
- Aavishkar Group Impact Report 2020
- Kenya has reported an increase in Gender Based Violence
- Kenya enforces new measures to stem the third wave. state curfew (no.2) public order counties
- Smallholder Farmers Access to Agricultural Finance in Southern Africa
- Regional Integration in Southern and Eastern Africa A Review of Informal Cross Border Trade
- The Experiences and Challenges of Women in the SADC Region the Case of Trade and Agriculture Sectors
- Womens Empowerment in Africa: Building Successful Female Entrepreneurs
- Investing in Female Entrepreneurs: A Social Issue or an Economic Opportunity?
- Moving the dial on gender-smart investing: why our new guide focusses on the ‘how’
- Usawa Agenda 2020 Report – Kenya
- Mapping Social Investors’ response to Covid-19 in South Africa
- Survey to explore growth barriers faced by Female Entrepreneurs in East
- How Digital Solutions May Enhance Social Finance
- Innovative Financing for Social Entrepreneurs
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nigerian MSMEs
- Survey Results: Impacts of COVID-19 on SMEs in the Food System
- The Small and Growing Business Sector and the COVID-19 Crisis: Emerging Evidence on Key Risks and Needs
- Kenya: Digital Trend Report 2020
- Kenya: The state of Mobile data 2019
- Impact of Covid-19 ON Consumers and Corporates in Kenya
- Sankalp Africa Summit Post-Event Report 2020
- GHANA Impact Investment Landscape
- KENYA Impact Investment Landscape
- An Assessment of Women Owned Enterprises in Developing Countries
- An East Africa Guide : Angel Investing During a Time of Crisis
- Mainstreaming Innovative Health Financing Models In Africa
- Innovative Health Financing Models for Universal Health Coverage in Kenya
- Investing for Impact Barometer
- Switching On Financing for Off-Grid Energy
- Innovative Finance in Africa
- Partnering to Crush The Curve: Response From Africa’s First Responders To COVID-19
- Category: Audio Visual
- Category: Call for Proposals
- Category: Press Release
- Category: Toolkit and Training
- Category: Videos
- Category: Webinar
- Category: Articles & Reports
- Category: Geography
- Category: Africa
- African Healthcare Funders Forum: Focus Group Report
- DFI Working Group launches report on blended concessional finance for private sector projects
- The power of blended finance to build back stronger.
- How Blended Finance Can Accelerate MSME Growth in Africa
- Back to the Frontier: Investing that Puts Impact First
- Global Philanthropy Alliance opportunity for social entrepreneurs
- Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods for Women and Girls
- BECOME THE NEXT TONY ELUMELU ENTREPRENEUR
- THE WOMEN & GIRLS INDEX 2020
- Co-Investing for Impact in Africa
- The Angel Accelerator: INVESTING WITH OR FOR IMPACT
- The Angel Accelerator, powered by AVPA (video)
- Measuring giving to women’s and girls’ causes
- The 2020 Investing for Impact survey – infographics’ series
- Mapping Agriculture Investing in Africa – a new resource from Village Capital
- Overlooked No More: Donors invest in African change makers to maximize impact
- 5 Recommendations for Development Institutions Engaging with Angel Networks in Emerging Markets
- Blended Finance Opportunities To Meet the SDGs
- AVPA Launches Southern Africa Social Investment Landscape Mapping Study Report
- What happens in an outcome-based financing model when a major crisis hits?
- The Landscape for Social Investments in East, West and Southern Africa
- Beyond the Grant: Foundations as Impact Investors
- Women Included: A gender sensitive approach to agribusiness investment
- The Development Dimension
- Research Brief: The Landscape of Large-Scale Giving by African Philanthropists
- Impact of COVID-19 in Africa: a scenario analysis to 2030
- Worldwide Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Tracker for COVID-19 (WNTRAC)
- COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs
- Supporting Women Entrepreneurs To Recover From COVID-19
- Food Security For Households & The Nation
- The Power of Blended Finance To Build Back Better
- COVID-19 Testing On The Frontlines
- Supporting Women Through The Pandemic
- Fightback COVID-19 Through Innovation
- Impact of COVID-19 on Gender-based Violence
- Fighting COVID-19 In Lagos
- International Community Support To Fight COVID-19
- Synergistic Response COVID 19 Impact Consortium
- The role of Mechanization as a key driver for economic diversification Post COVID-19
- The Exchange: COVID – 19 & Beyond Episode 5: The Future Of E-commerce Post AfCFTA Implementation
- The Exchange: COVID-19 & Beyond Episode 4: The Youth Perspective
- The Exchange: COVID-19 & Beyond Episode 3: Harnessing Investment for Healthcare.
- The Exchange: COVID-19 & Beyond Episode 2: COVID-19 Insights from Private Sector and Media
- The Exchange: COVID-19 & Beyond Episode 1: Spotlight on the Corona Virus
- Now is the time for the world to rally behind women in business
- Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery
- The power of parity: Advancing women’s equality in Africa for the continent’s growth prospects
- Assessing Gender Lens Investing in Blended Finance
- 10 ways to redesign venture finance for a more inclusive post-COVID world
- Incentives for driving impact in deal and fund structures
- Funding women entrepreneurs: How to empower growth
- Key Insights from the Latest Gender Lens Investing Report
- The Missing Middles – Segmenting Enterprises to Better Understand their Financial Needs
- Closing the Gaps – Finance Pathways for Serving the Missing Middles 2019
- Emerging Market Small & Growing Business Capital Provider’s Survey Results
- Meet the Women that make up our Global Leadership Network
- A Toolkit to track Gender Diversity at your workplace
- Women in African Investments
- Equity, Inclusion And the Evolution Of Venture Finance
- Innovative Finance: Hacking finance to change the world- University of Cape Town
- Applying Impact Investing Strategies to the COVID-19 Crisis
- Global Responses to a Global Pandemic webinar series #3 Sharing African responses to COVID 19
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing The Curve 09: Supporting SMEs During COVID-19 And Beyond
- Partnering To Crush The Curve: Mental Health & Wellness During COVID-19
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing The Curve 07: Misinformation & Communication During COVID-19
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing the Curve 06: Access To Healthcare For COVID-19 Patients
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing the Curve 05: Gender & Domestic Violence During COVID19 Pandemic
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing the Curve 04: Access To Education During The COVID-19 Pandemic
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing the Curve 03: Economic Impact of COVID-19 On The Informal Sector
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing the Curve 02: Access to Food & Basic Needs
- Sankalp Dialogues & AVPA – Crushing the Curve: 01 Preparing Informal Settlements
- Building Back Better
- Becoming a Changemaker: Introduction to Social Innovation
- An Introduction to Impact Investing for Foundations
- Social Impact Measurement and Management Online Course
- Incentives for driving impact in deal and fund structures
- Category: Central Africa
- Category: East Africa
- Category: North Africa
- Category: Southern Africa
- Category: West Africa
- Category: Africa
- Category: Topic
- Category: Agribusiness
- Category: Blended Finance
- Category: Climate
- Category: Corporate Social Investments
- Category: COVID-19
- Category: Entrepreneurship
- Category: Gender
- Category: Healthcare
- Category: Impact Investing
- Category: Impact Investment (includes PE/VC, Debt, etc.)
- Category: Innovative Finance
- Category: Leadership
- Category: Legal & Regulatory
- Category: Philanthropy
- Category: Private Debt
- Category: Private Equity
- Category: SMEs
- Category: Social Entrepreneurship
- Category: The Landscape of social investment
- Category: Tools for Grantmakers
- Category: Tools for Impact Investors
- Category: Venture Capital
- Category: Youth Employment
- Category: Author
