AMA: AVPA Deal Share: Fostering Strategic Connections Between African and European Social Investors Seeking Large Scale Impact on the Continent
AMA (Ask Me Anything) | Introducing the new Deal Share Platform for Africa to facilitate collaboration amongst social investors across Africa and globally.
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Connect with social investors interested in Africa.
About me
Rachel leads the AVPA Value Hub, which drives service delivery for AVPA’s diverse stakeholders. She is currently developing the AVPA Deal Share Platform and African Social Investment Landscape Study. Rachel engages widely with social investors to identify opportunities for collaboration to address major social challenges facing Africa. Based in Nairobi for the last decade, Rachel has worked as an analyst, journalist, researcher, entrepreneur, portfolio manager, and impact communicator across many sectors. Rachel has written widely on finance and impact investment in Africa. She is excited about catalyzing finance to achieve the SDGs.
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Impact Investment Manager
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EVPA
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Research Associate
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Keith Wallace
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Hivos Impact Investments
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Portfolio Manager
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Wouter Vandersypen
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Kampani
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Executive Director
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connect with similar social impact investment funds
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Prior to becoming Kampani’s Executive Director, Wouter was a consultant for PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). He also worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee and the World Bank.
Wouter is on the Board of Fairtrade Belgium, Trias, and a traditional private equity investment fund, called Invale NV.
He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations & Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a degree in Political Sciences from the University of Leuven, having studied in Leuven, Tübingen and Fribourg.
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Oxfam Novib
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Project Lead SME Development
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Sushant Sharma
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Fondation Botnar
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Chief Investment Officer
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Paul Carttar
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IVPC
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Partner
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Claudia Belli
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BNP Paribas
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Global Head Social Business and Microfinance
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Impact investing, Social Business, Microfinance
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Themba Elias
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easyHATCH Rwanda
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CEO
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easyHATCH is an impact driven agribusiness working with smallholder poultry farmers in Rwanda and Congo where we supply them with the key input of Day Old Chicks. We further supply other key inputs such as feeds, medicine, veterinary support and training. We also assist farmers gain access to markets to ensure that they don't suffer post-harvest losses.
Our work contributes to the provision of low cost animal protein for consumers, lowering poverty levels and improving farmer incomes.Our business model is about creating income generating opportunities for rural communities whilst remaining a for-profit business. We have established ourselves as a trusted brand in the poultry sector in Rwanda.
At the Red Cross, Simon is responsible for developing alternative financial instruments to unlock private capital in support of the movement’s mission. He also currently chairs the investment committee of Community Investment Partnership, and sits on the Impact Investing Steering Group for BOND network
Mariah Grubb
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Kampani
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Investment Officer
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Passionate problem-solver with a track record of delivering results looking to leverage my management prowess and ingenuity to tackle human vulnerabilities, social inequities, and illicit trafficking.
Alex Alvarez
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International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC)
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Partner
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The International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC), advances the practice of Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment globally, and to increase the effectiveness of that capital in generating meaningful social impact. IVPC has working as a catalyst and facilitator for the establishment of EVPA's sister networks in Africa (AVPA) and Latin America (Latimpacto).
Reto Wey
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Toilets for All
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Secretary
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SDG 6
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My passion is discovering the New in the fields of finance and impact investing, social entrepreneurship, the circular economy, sanitation economy and the art world to come up with surprising new ways to provide basic services to the bottom of the pyramid and investing in them as Angel Investor and throughout our foundation Toilets for All to reach the SDG, especially SDG 6 for water and sanitation.
Specialties: Innovation, New Technology, Sustainable Development Goal SDG, SDG 6, Sanitation, venture Philanthropy Social Finance, Impact Investment, Angel Investment, Pyrolisis, BioChar, CO2-certficates, Contemporary Art.
Tatiana Chopova
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Oxfam Novib
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Impact Investment Expert
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I am looking to connect with impact investment funds and impact investment specialists in Africa and Asia.
About me
Tatiana is an Impact Investment Expert at Oxfam Novib.
Prior to Oxfam, Tatiana was a Partner/Managing director at AlpInvest (part of the Carlyle Group), a private equity asset manager.
Peter Cafferkey
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EVPA
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Ireland and United Kingdom Country Representative:
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Sergio Zuniga
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Ecosystem Development Manager
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Gert van Veldhuisen
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BiD Network
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managing partner
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impact investing in East Africa
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Private impact investor since 2007. Currently managing partner at BiD Network, where we support East African entrepreneurs with social impact to attract growth finance. Since 2007, we have facilitated over 220 impact investments for emerging market entrepreneurs.
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Endeva
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Director
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Drones, Open hardware, Systems Change, tech4good, youth employment, youth entrepreneurship
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I am leading several initiatives to unlock the full potential of drones for good in Africa. Our approach is focused on transformational partnership that change systems and lead to sustainable impact through the safe, sensible, localised and cost effective use of this technology.
Nancy Kairo
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The African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA)
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Director E.A. Region & Member Services
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