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Français Save the Date : 3rd Africa Finance Conference to be held in February 2015 in ParisNews | 25/11/2014 Kusuntu-le-Club, Orrick Rambaud Martel and Investisseurs & Partenaires are organizing the third edition of the Africa Finance Conference, entitled “Impact and Returns through Responsible Investments in Corporate Africa”. The conference will be held in Paris on February 12 2015. Visit the... |
 J.-M. Severino interviewed on Europe 1In The Press | 22/11/2014Jean-Michel Severino, CEO of I&P, was interviewed on November 22th on Europe 1 by Anne Sinclair. An opportunity to review the current political, economical and social changes on the African continent. Listen to the interview on Europe 1's website J... |
 "Collaborating for Social Impact": EVPA Annual ConferenceNews | 18/11/2014On November 17th and 18th, EVPA holds its annual conference in Berlin. Under the theme “Collaborating for Social Impact: the Next 10 Years”, the conference covers various topics, from crowdfunding to impact measurement and from exits to government regulations. Olivier Lafourcade, member of the... |
 IMF Report: Regional Economic Outlook Sub-Saharan AfricaIntelligence & Analysis | 14/11/2014 The International Monetary Fund published last October its new Regional Economic Outlook, "SubSaharan Africa: Staying the Course". Pierrick Baraton, Impact Assesment Officer at I&P, summarized the report. Overall, Sub-Saharan Africa still offers... |
 J.-M. Severino’s Intervention at the Africa SME Champions ForumNews | 11/11/2014More than 300 African SMEs and 100 representatives of financial institutions are coming together these November 11th and 12th for the Africa SME Champions Forum. Investisseurs & Partenaires’ President, Jean-Michel Severino, takes part to a conference focused on SME’s financing. In a... |
 SINERGI Niger exits from 2 companies of its portfolioEntrepreneurs | 10/11/2014SINERGI is an impact investment company founded in Niger in 2007 by IPDEV. Its investment strategy has been very entrepreneurial: SINERGI invests exclusively in start-ups and early-stage small growing businesses (SGBs), most of which are in formalization or still in the informal sector. Along with... |
 First reimbursement on Kiva loan from CDS (Mauritania)Entrepreneurs | 05/11/2014Kiva users who funded our pilot crowdfunding project received their first reimbursement last week from CDS via I&P Développement. The loan was dedicated to set up new solar water pumps in replacement for old oil-fueled pumps in the southern village of Wolomboni in Mauritania.3 months after the... |
 ACEP Madagascar and Nutri'Zaza: Main findings of the Impact Evaluation ReportsEntrepreneurs | 31/10/2014Investisseurs & Partenaires and Planète d'Entrepreneurs have carried two extensive impact studies on two SMES established in Madagascar: Nutri'Zaza and ACEP Madagascar. Read the Repot on Nutri'Zaza (in French)Read the Report on ACEP Madagascar (in French) Nutri'... |
 The New Africa': the Report published by the Financial TimesIn The Press | 30/10/2014The Financial Times has published early October a series of articles exploring the diverse aspects of Africa’s significant economic growth, that many call ‘Africa Rising’’. As stated in the introduction, “from Senegal to Kenya and from Morocco to Mozambique, Africa is enjoying an era of... |
 Investisseurs & Partenaires selected for the Impact Assets 50 2014News | 23/10/2014Investisseurs & Partenaires is very pleased to announce that it is has been selected this year for the ImpactAssets 50, an annually updated list that has become since its inception in 2011 a highly valuable source of information on the impact investing sector. As the first publicly available... |