• About Us

      Our Team

      Dr Frank Aswani

      Chief Executive Officer

      Nasri Adam

      Regional Director - East Africa

      Tochukwu Ezeukwu

      Regional Director - West Africa

      Matebe Chisiza

      Regional Director - Southern Africa
    • Our Impact Programs

      2024 Africa Impact Investing Fellowship

      Africa Climate Investing Forum

      African Healthcare Funders Forum

    • Upcoming Events

Financing Water Impact

This toolkit provides information that helps entrepreneurs understand the key components needed to successfully finance an enterprise that tackles socio-environmental challenges within the water, sanitation, waste and sustainable agriculture sectors. Explore the tools and content

ICRW GENDER OPPORTUNITIES EXPLORER

The Gender Opportunities Explorer highlights opportunities to better integrate gender in the operations and supply chain of an off-grid energy or energy application company. This interactive catalogue is relevant for companies working in the agriculture, energy access and health sectors. These tools for the off-grid energy sector can be used to explore gender opportunities, screen […]

Solving Early Childhood Challenges in South Africa by De-risking Early-stage Product and Service Development

Innovation Edge is an impact-first investor focused on solving early childhood challenges in South Africa. Adliya van Niekerk is the Investment Principal at Innovation Edge where she leads the development and implementation of IE’s investment strategy to build an impactful portfolio and maintain a vibrant investment pipeline. A fellow of the Africa-Asia Impact Investing Fellowship, […]

Impact-Investing-Handbook

Impact investing is a powerful force that is reshaping how philanthropy defines its operating models, as we’ve learned in the research that created The Philanthropy Framework. It’s a critical tool for fulfilling philanthropy’s role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Without impact investing, the kind of systems change we need to solve deeply persistent […]

Catalytic Capital: The Evolving Role of Philanthropy

Frank Aswani and William Asiko, The Rockefeller Foundation, Africa Managing Director delve deeper into Catalytic Capital and The Evolving Role of Philanthropy in Africa. This is the first of the three webinars we are hosting to sensitise participants on Catalytic Capital in preparation for the Catalytic Capital Investment training for grantmakers that we will run this year. For […]

Impact-Linked Finance as Catalytic Capital

This webinar is the second in a series of virtual events we are running to sensitize participants on Catalytic Capital in preparation for the Catalytic Capital Investment training programme for grantmakers that we will run this year. We will be joined by Natasha Dinham from Roots of Impact whose expertise in Impact Finance will shed […]

AVPA February Newsletter 2023

I hope you’ve all had a good start to the year and are looking forward to the rest of 2023 as much as I am. We have a lot to look forward to this year as AVPA. We are particularly intentional about investing in growing the network, advancing capital mobilization towards impact, building the capabilities […]

Catalytic Capital: Unlocking Africa’s Impact Potential

Join us for the third webinar in our Catalytic Capital series! To wrap up this series, we have invited Amma Lartey, CEO of Impact Investing Ghana and Andrew Ahiaku, Head of Financial Sector at Aceli Africa to share the various ways Catalytic Capital can be used to unlock Africa’s Impact Potential. The Catalytic Capital Consortium […]

Africa Impact Summit

The inaugural Africa Impact Summit is taking place this July to showcase how impact investing can transform the continent. The programme will showcase Africa’s innovation, pipeline opportunities, and market-building efforts, while also reflecting on the challenges the continent faces. The summit is a great opportunity to connect and collaborate with hundreds of investors, businesses and […]

Putting the SDGs Back on Track

We are hosting research fellow and professor, Amanda Williams to unpack her recent article on: Putting the SDGs back on track. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been recognised as a transformative global agenda aimed at addressing pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges. However, recent reports indicate that progress towards achieving these goals has faltered, […]