Impact investing in Africa: a 2024 analytical map
June 07, 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 map of impact investors operating in Africa is established. It lists more than 300 investors. This first production of the chair will be presented during an event in Abidjan, on June 20, 2024.
↪ A review of the literature on development financial institutions (DFIs) is carried out. This literature review and the publication of an academic article will be presented in fall 2024 during an event on the future of DFIs in fall 2024.
