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After a pilot edition started in October 2019 for four countries, the acceleration programme funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and managed by a consortium composed of Africalia, I&P Conseil, Zhu Culture and the Bayimba Foundation is opening a second call for applications, with the same objective: to demonstrate the economic potential of the cultural and creative industries on the continent through capacity building of businesses in the sector.

Officially launched in July 2020 (press release from 07/10/2020) with the support of the European Union, I&P Acceleration in Sahel program has funded in 6 months 28 growing small businesses in the Sahel sub-region.

Investisseurs  & Partenaires (I&P) has been selected for the third time for the ImpactAssets 50 2021, a free online database for impact investors, family offices, financial advisors and institutional investors that features a diversified listing of private capital fund managers delivering social and environmental impact as well as financial returns. 

Launched in July 2020 with the support of the European Union through the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (UTF), the I&P Acceleration in Sahel program has provided a dozen new seed funding these last months.

Today, Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), via I&P Education to Employment (IP2E), announced a partnership with the Mastercard Foundation that will support businesses in the education sector to recover from the impact of COVID-19.

The team of Investisseurs & Partenaires wishes you all the best for 2021... we hope it will be a more favorable year, both privately and professionally, after the difficult year of 2020. A review of the key moments of 2020 and our projects for 2021, with Jean-Michel Severino, CEO of Investisseurs & Partenaires.

See also: our first newsletter of 2021!

On Tuesday November 24th, Investisseurs & Partenaires hosted a webconference on the theme "Entrepreneurs in Africa: surviving the Covid-19 crisis"

This event was the opportunity to hear the views of African entrepreneurs and key players in the ecosystem: how has the Covid-19 crisis impacted African small and medium enterprises? What are the mid and long term strategies to be implemented ? What initiatives to support these companies ?

I&P was awarded at the seventh edition of the "ESG Best Practices Honours", organized by SWEN Capital Partners on November 26, 2020, along with four other awardees.

This is the second prize attributed by Swen Capital to I&P, which this year receives the Special Jury Prize, "for a longstanding impact approach that stands among the best market standards and support for entrepreneurship in Africa"

This edition of I&P's quarterly newsletter focuses on the Tech sector, with an editorial by Samir Abdelkrim (EMERGING Valley, StartupBRICS) and a review of the first financing operations carried out by our I&P Acceleration Technologies program.

I&P is pleased to present its first annual impact report. Historically, we have measured our impact and achievements in individual reports at the level of our various investment vehicles (and we will continue to do so!). This report is our first attempt to capture an aggregate picture of the collective results of our mission across the entire organization and team.