Impact Investors Foundation Organizes 3rd Annual Convening

 

 

Impact Investors Foundation, IIF, is organizing its 3rd Convening on the theme, “COVID-19 and Gender Lens Investing in Nigeria

 

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, “COVID-19 and Gender Lens Investing in Nigeria.”

A statement signed by Maria E. Glover, Projects Lead, Impact Investors’ Foundation, stated that the webinar which is scheduled to hold on December 10, 2020, at 10 A.M (WAT)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.  It will feature a wide range of speakers which include GLI experts, consultants, business leaders, investors and GLI fund managers to speak on the theme.

According to Glover, the convening aims to address:

How to unlock capital for Gender Lens Investments into the country.

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.

Practical insights on how to adopt GLI in investors’ investment strategies.

Exposing investors to GLI frameworks and approaches that have worked and are being deployed in response to COVID-19.

Providing guidelines to investors who would want to adopt GLI into their investment strategies.

 

The statement added that resource persons

Include Chairperson:  Ms Yewande Sadiku, Executive Secretary, CEO of Nigerian Investment Promotion Council , Keynote Speaker: Vikas Bali, CEO, Intellecap Advisory PVT limited.

However, the first panel with a title : Attracting Capital for Gender Lens Investing in Nigeria: Opportunities and Challenges, will be moderated by  Nneka Eze, Managing Partner, Dalberg Advisors, Nigeria. The panelists would be made up of Temilade Denton, Social Impact and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) manager, Alitheia Capital

Vikas Bali, CEO, Intellecap Advisory PVT limited, Jen Braswell, CDC, Director, Value Creation Strategies, Ténemba Anna Samaké, Executive Director, MBC Africa, Anne-Marie Lévesque, Head of Gender and Impact, FinDev  Canada

The second panel titled  Gender Lens Investing: Sharing Experiences in Supply and Demand for Capital will be moderated by  Nneka Chime, Cross Boundaries with panelists

Jesse Baver, Associate Partner, Dalberg Advisors, London, Yemi Keri, Co-Founder, Rising Tide

Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes, Founding Partner & Managing Director, Aruwa Capital Management, Nigeria, Thelma Ekiyor, Managing Partner, SME.NG and Arianne Martins Rodriguez, Gender Development & Impact Investing Expert