Education and employment are key development challenges for many parts of Africa. A substantial increase in funding, and the development of innovative investment opportunities are needed, say Paul Ronalds and Sandeep Aneja.
The Transform Health Fund aims to provide a template for blended finance in Africa’s healthcare sector. Following the fund’s close, we talk about progress so far with Martin Edlund of the Health Finance Coalition, one of the fund’s founding organisations.
The organisations launched a set of recommendations to boost impact investing in the European Parliament this week, calling for closer collaboration between public, private and philanthropic actors to maximise impact.
The Business Investment Financing Track has been set up to accelerate financial support for smallholder farmers and MSMEs in the agri-food sector, and improve food security and agricultural development in low-income countries.
The state investment fund Invest-NL, alongside pension funds and other investment funds, wants to explore the possibility of setting up a fund of funds, which could reach a size of between €600m to €1bn in the not too distant future.
Acquiring accurate impact data to support impact investments does not have to mean swamping the often-limited resources of intermediary and beneficiary organisations with complex data requests, according to Oxford University researchers.
The funding aims to target carbon reduction across Asia, with a focus on Vietnam and India’s energy transition, looking at areas such as renewable energy, electric mobility and energy efficiency.
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