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2024, 4IP Group Presentation 01.02.2024
❖ How philanthropy in Africa could develop in the coming decade and ❖ Why this matters! ❖ How do impact investors work with non-profits? ❖ Philanthro-Capitalism. ❖ The Social Finance Landscape. ❖ The Origins and Expansion of Impact Investing in Western Africa. ❖ Supply of social investment in WEST AFRICA. ❖ Who are the major impact investors in Western Africa? ❖ DFI ❖ Non-DFI (SFMs) ❖ Foundations ❖ Faith-based organizations ❖ The Case for Faith-based Impact Investment. ❖ A few conclusions and policyrecommendations.
PIC, Impact Investing South Africa & GSGII
Africa Impact ReportThe African Impact Report 2019 is a catalyst for collaborative coordination amongst global stakeholders to fast track sustainable and scalable solutions for Africa’s prioritized impact needs. This working paper presents a summary of impact investment-related information, research and recommendations from a range of government and private sector sources. It presents a baseline of the progress pertaining to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063, macroeconomic growth prospects, capital availability and sector opportunities. It further outlines gaps which require a collaborative effort to address in order to ensure the much needed outcomes for the African continent is achieved. Further work will be done to identify solutions to these gaps to ensure Impact Investors into Africa can appropriately benchmark their return, risk and impact requirements.
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This paper frames social finance in its broadest terms as an alternative to traditional corporate responsible practice, highlighting the significance and potential of social finance in mobilising financial resources for global social development. This paper explains social finance as an approach employing financial resources drawn from "the market" to generate positive social impacts which can, depending on instruments, also deliver financial returns. Despite hitherto forms of capitalism generating economic asymmetry, there is an urgent need for a more equitable financial mobilisation through innovative finance. Such a need has generated a paradigm shift in the corporate sector where actors in the private sector are increasingly using a variety of instruments to utilise private money for public good - social finance. We have so far seen corporate responsible business practices, yet with innovation and multi-sectoral partnerships, it can potentially bring the most significant change that has yet to be witnessed globally.
2021 •
This report focuses on the latent potential and essentials of impact investing. It is an emerging, innovative form of SDGs investment for realization of the SDGs in ASEAN. Impact investing is distinct in its intentionality in creating and measuring societal impact along with financial return, beyond mitigating risk and incorporating factors related to environment, society and governance (ESG). This report aims to further mobilize financial resources that can be measured in terms of both financial and societal performance to accelerate realization of the SDGs, as part of the “Decade of Action”.
ISIRC-MILAN, Proceedings, EGEA, 2022
IMPACT INVESTING STRATEGY - Focus on equity capital providers, investing in profit with purpose companies.2022 •
This paper aims to identify key topics that an equity capital provider with an investment focus on for-profit businesses shall consider while defining an impact investing strategy. Critical questions stand at the origin of this research, such as how can investors combine financial return and impact return? More specifically, what topics take priority when designing an impact investing strategy? To catalyse resources from different kinds of potential impact investors, managers can design different strategies and can set up various forms of investment vehicles, such as venture capital funds or venture philanthropy organisations. The research methodology was based on empirical and qualitative analyses carried out during the period of 2019-2021. The research arrives at outcomes by testing empirical evidence by using qualitative methods such as of observations, assessing web-based data and information regarding key topics for impact investing strategies, organising one-to-one meetings, and networking during sector conferences. A selected panel of impact-investing players encompasses 96 players, including 79 impact capital fund and 17 network organisations. The funds selected are mainly registered in Europe, the USA, and the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region, but all predominantly invest in emerging and developing countries. Preference was given towards analysing the investment vehicles partnered with institutional investors, and which are therefore primarily committed to financial returns alongside a serious mandatory commitment to impact topics and measurable impact return. Publications, reports, and data provided by global networks of impact investors were taken into considerations, together alongside the review of the literature on impact investing and venture capital in emerging countries. The key topics identified as significant for outlining impact investing strategies are the following: theory of change; contribution to sustainable development goals; criteria to identify impact business models; capacity-building support to portfolio companies; geographic focus; thematic sectors; time horizon and exit strategy; methodology to measure and manage impact. In conclusion, the paper offers more guidance towards the question of how to code impact returns, as well as a good path towards addressing investors and investment managers to design impact investing strategies aimed to generate financial return while simultaneously serving the common good.
World Resources Institute
Unlocking Early-Stage Financing for SDG PartnershipsMobilizing finance and multistakeholder partnerships are key priorities for the global community to accelerate the SDGs. Yet, many partnerships are not able to reach their ambitions because they cannot access early-stage financing. This report aims to help partnerships and their funders effectively manage and mobilize finance to achieve SDG impact by: exploring partnership funding challenges and lessons learned; examining innovative funding approaches; and providing tangible recommendations to partnerships and funders on how to drive SDG impact more effectively.
World Resources Institute
Impact-Driven Investing in New Mobility Enterprises: Perspectives from Kampala, Uganda, and Hyderabad, IndiaPrivate investments present a critical funding opportunity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, due to the growing recognition that socially and environmentally responsible solutions can generate impacts and financial returns across the risk spectrum. Innovative new mobility solutions—especially when driven by impact-oriented investments and enabled by inclusive policies—can be part of the solution for sustainable and equitable transport. The research paper features key insights on impact-driven investments in new mobility enterprises in Kampala, Uganda, and Hyderabad, India. The paper highlights the current challenges to impact investing in mobility enterprises, including difficulties in accounting for impact, dilution of impact from other sectors, regulatory regimes and political risks that could hinder the running of mobility businesses, and entrenched stakeholders holding back investments. It concludes with opportunities to confront these challenges and pathways to safe...
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Philanthropic giving by diverse individuals, social and communal groups, and formal institutions, forms the bedrock of Ghanaian culture, whilst providing for the most basic social and economic needs of many of its people. In fact, giving for a wide range of reasons is considered to be so intrinsic to Africans, including Ghanaians, that "at any one given time, one is either a philanthropist or a recipient of one kind or another of benevolence." However, there have been few studies that have systematically analysed the potential of philanthropy to contribute to development aspirations at the national level
Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management
Social Finance for Nonprofits: Impact investing, social impact bonds, and crowdfunding2020 •
In recent years, social finance has gathered significant, and increasingly global, scholarly and policy interest. This chapter provides a brief review of the concepts, history, forms, and policies related to social finance, with a primary focus on the United Kingdom and the United States. Debates around social finance are often focused on commercial or financial dimensions, in which nonprofits are typically not centrally involved. In this chapter, we focus on three key forms of social finance as examples to show how social finance benefits or engages with nonprofit organizations. The three forms of social finance are impact investing, social impact bonds, and crowdfunding, which all have advantages and barriers in serving nonprofits and social enterprises.
Journal of Responsible Innovation
Mobilizing capital for responsible innovation: the role of social finance in supporting innovative projects2023 •
The literature on Responsible Innovation (RI) has not yet fully addressed the role played by social finance (SF) in supporting projects and organizations engaged in the production of innovations that tackle grand societal challenges. This study addresses this gap by empirically examining how SF investors select potential investees and the principles they judge important in SF. Our findings show that SF investors apply a combination of criteria to select investment projects where entrepreneurial motivations, environmental, social and governance commitments, and the nature of the impacts being generated align with their portfolio's mission. Though not all SF investors in our sample had knowledge about the concept of responsibility, they nonetheless mobilized a broad set of principles that are closely aligned with the aims and practices of RI. More research is needed to clarify the type of resources SF use to support RI and the conditions under which these resources are provided.
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Reparative accumulation? Financial risk and investment across socio-environmental crisesWith the growing global recognition that environmental and social crises are pushing systems of social and ecological reproduction to their breaking points, governments, philanthropists, and the private sector are proposing a variety of strategies that aim to shift the social and environmental role of finance capital from an extractive process to a reparative one. A frequent refrain is that only finance capital promises the scale of investment necessary to address Earth’s complex social and environmental problems, and that trillions of private investment dollars wait in the wings ready to mobilize for the right kinds of projects. A hallmark of these approaches is their promise of “triple bottom line” outcomes, with social, environmental, and financial benefits—what the industry refers to as “responsible investing.” This symposium interrogates the political dynamics and financial mechanisms underlying ongoing experiments in so-called responsible finance, including various forms of im...
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