Investing in Sub-Saharan Africa for Growth: Public or Private?
September 27, 2024
Impact investment is a fast-growing asset class internationally. However, the definition of impact investing itself remains unclear: it is neither for-profit nor a socially responsible investment, although it has close links with social entrepreneurship. There is also no general method or framework for measuring the impact of investments. Each investor defines and applies their own.
The Impact Investment Chair aims to:
Its work will cover the activities of impact investors across the African continent.
↪ Provide better knowledge of the impact investment sector in Africa.
↪ Contribute to a standardization of the concept, essential to its legitimacy and to the understanding of the capacities and limits of impact investment.
↪ Study the effects of impact investing on the development of African countries.
↪ Propose a reflection on the current questions that arise about the sustainable development of this sector.
↪ A comprehensive map detailing impact investors active in Africa has been compiled, listing over 300 investors. This initial output was presented at an event in Abidjan on 20 June 2024.
↪ The mapping was detailed in a report entitled "Impact investing in Africa: A 2024 analytical map". It provides an overview of the sector, clarifies the definition of impact investment, and analyses its specific characteristics in Africa.
↪ In October 2024, the database compiled for this study is freely accessible on this webpage
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