Every year our ESG/Impacts team collects and agregates a series of impact indicators from our I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs portfolio investees (11 companies this year). Collected figures will serve a global study to measure economic, environmental, social and governance impacts generated by our partners, SMEs located in Sub saharan Africa.
The Graduate Insitute is a research establishment specialized in teaching International Relations. The core academic reflexion is dedicated to development issues within a view to foster a certain global responsability within the decision-making.
Jean-Michel Severino tackled this specific theme within the scope of Investisseurs & Partenaires' field of action, Sub-Saharan Africa and explore some possible answers to "What development for Africa ?".
Béchir Malum's works will be exhibited on next April 1st to 15th at the Espace Van Gogh in Arles. His paintings will be exhibited as well as some of the photographs he shot in the companies of I&P's portfolio. Mauritanian artist Oumar Laball will share the event, in a joint introduction to Mauritanian art held by the Club des Jumelages d'Arles-Sagné.
Investisseurs & Partenaires took part to the Africa SMB Forum through the speech given by JM Severino in Casablanca on the opening ceremony of the 1st Africa SMB Forum called “How to invest in Africa”. This first meeting was held by the Africa SMB platform created in 2012 by Dogad Dogoui, a French-Ivorian entrepreneur and dedicated to the promotion and strengthening of an African network of Small and Medium entrepreneurs.
Investisseurs & Partenaires is now a member of the Association Malagasy des Investisseurs en Capital (Malagasy association for private equity investors).
Olivier Lafourcade, chairman of IPDEV took part to the first edition of The African Philanthropy Forum held in Ethiopia on February 24th and 25th.
I&P was announced as one of the 7 winners of the IEIF grant managed by the Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN). The competition for the grant was launched in April 2013 at the Africa Impact Investing Forum supported by
Jean-Michel Severino is giving a speech at Philantopics on " What role can philanthropists and policymakers play in nurturing economic growth and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa?"
More than twenty years ago, and with Eric Fottorino and Christophe Guillemin, we wrote a book called “Need of Africa” (*). There was no lack of pitying smiles and sneers. We were treated, at best, as “good people”.
Today the situation has changed. The continent to our south is growing fast. It has a very long way to go, but it is showing us the way, in terms of growth. A growth which is our chance too. There is so much to build together.
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