The €54 million I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs (IPAE) fund, managed by Investisseurs & Partenaires, has recently invested, as minority stakeholders, in two companies based in West Africa.
Both of them demonstrate the great innovation capacity of African SMEs, as they play a pioneering role in their respective domains of activity.
From 13 to 15 October, more than 50 entrepreneurs will be gathered for the 4th edition of I&P’s annual training seminar, dedicated to the partner companies. The seminar will address the key issues related to employees’ recruitment and loyalty, based on the following question: how to enhance enterprise performance through employee motivation?
As stated by Omar Cissé and Olivier Furdelle in the edito of the 10th newsletter published by Investisseurs & Partenaires, "access to finance shoult not be an obstacle to entrepreneurship in Africa".
For the third consecutive year, Investisseurs & Partenaires publishes its annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Impact reporting, conceived as a comprehensive review of its fund IPAE societal strategy.
The document presents the methodology in terms of ESG policy and impact measurement and examines the main results and achievements of IPAE partner companies in 2014 (16 companies this year, including 5 new investments).
The report is divided into 4 sections :
Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) co-organises two sessions during the European Development Days, held in Brussels on June 3 and 4, to present the project Small is Powerful. Initiated by I&P and the photographer Joan Bardeletti, the project investigates the impacts of five African SME and aims to show how African small enterprises contribute to the development of the continent.
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