Impact Investors Foundation Organizes 3rd Annual Convening

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Impact Investors Foundation&comma; IIF&comma; is organizing its 3rd Convening on the theme&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;COVID-19 and Gender Lens Investing in Nigeria<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria reports that the Impact Investors’ Foundation cordially invites you to the virtual edition of its 3rd IIF Annual Convening on Impact Investing on the theme&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;COVID-19 and Gender Lens Investing in Nigeria&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A statement signed by Maria E&period; Glover&comma; Projects Lead&comma; Impact Investors&&num;8217&semi; Foundation&comma; stated that the webinar which is scheduled to hold on December 10&comma; 2020&comma; at 10 A&period;M &lpar;WAT&rpar;will bring together key actors and cross-sectoral stakeholders to discuss opportunities and challenges in mainstreaming gender lens investing in Nigeria under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic&period;  It will feature a wide range of speakers which include GLI experts&comma; consultants&comma; business leaders&comma; investors and GLI fund managers to speak on the theme&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Glover&comma; the convening aims to address&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How to unlock capital for Gender Lens Investments into the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Strategies to break down barriers that exclude female entrepreneurs and female-centred businesses from accessing finance at favourable terms and conditions that support the growth of their businesses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Practical insights on how to adopt GLI in investors&&num;8217&semi; investment strategies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Exposing investors to GLI frameworks and approaches that have worked and are being deployed in response to COVID-19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Providing guidelines to investors who would want to adopt GLI into their investment strategies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The statement added that resource persons<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Include Chairperson&colon;  Ms Yewande Sadiku&comma; Executive Secretary&comma; CEO of Nigerian Investment Promotion Council &comma; Keynote Speaker&colon; Vikas Bali&comma; CEO&comma; Intellecap Advisory PVT limited&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the first panel with a title &colon; Attracting Capital for Gender Lens Investing in Nigeria&colon; Opportunities and Challenges&comma; will be moderated by  Nneka Eze&comma; Managing Partner&comma; Dalberg Advisors&comma; Nigeria&period; The panelists would be made up of Temilade Denton&comma; Social Impact and ESG &lpar;Environmental&comma; Social and Governance&rpar; manager&comma; Alitheia Capital<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vikas Bali&comma; CEO&comma; Intellecap Advisory PVT limited&comma; Jen Braswell&comma; CDC&comma; Director&comma; Value Creation Strategies&comma; Ténemba Anna Samaké&comma; Executive Director&comma; MBC Africa&comma; Anne-Marie Lévesque&comma; Head of Gender and Impact&comma; FinDev  Canada<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The second panel titled  Gender Lens Investing&colon; Sharing Experiences in Supply and Demand for Capital will be moderated by  Nneka Chime&comma; Cross Boundaries with panelists<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jesse Baver&comma; Associate Partner&comma; Dalberg Advisors&comma; London&comma; Yemi Keri&comma; Co-Founder&comma; Rising Tide<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes&comma; Founding Partner &amp&semi; Managing Director&comma; Aruwa Capital Management&comma; Nigeria&comma; Thelma Ekiyor&comma; Managing Partner&comma; SME&period;NG and Arianne Martins Rodriguez&comma; Gender Development &amp&semi; Impact Investing Expert<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;