{"id":7230,"date":"2017-07-21T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:35:13","slug":"ford-foundation-aca-convene-push-for-impact-investment-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/ford-foundation-aca-convene-push-for-impact-investment-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Foundation, ACA Convene Push for Impact Investment in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford Foundation and the African Capital Alliance (ACA) have held an advocacy convening, according to the news report by Innocent Unah, a Business day reporter, \u00a0to sensitise corporates and high net worth individuals in Nigeria about the need for impact investing in sustainable development and capacity building in Africa\u2019s biggest economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Impact investing connotes investments in firms, funds, and organisations, with the dual purposes of generating social and environmental impact and earning <\/span>financial return; it entails leveraging private capital for social good.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Impact investing models have been deployed in developing and emerging economies to solve problems in various sectors, such as sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and microfinance. It has also been used to address such issues as affordable and accessible housing, healthcare, and education.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat this is the way the world is going,\u201d Innocent Chukwuma, Ford Foundation\u2019s regional director in charge of West Africa, told BusinessDay. \u201cThrough this convening, we have been able to mobilise critical stakeholders from the private sector, the government, and the civil society in Nigeria to discuss an idea that is long overdue in the country, considering the myriad of problems it currently faces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Darren Walker, President of Ford Foundation, the second largest philanthropy in the US, said that impact investing helps people to get \u2018retirement money\u2019 while helping the society.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cImpact investing considers the total rate of return of any investment in terms of the social and financial impact,\u201d said Walker at the convening, themed, \u2018Impact Investing for Social Change\u2019, which held on Wednesday, at the Wheatbaker Hotel in Lagos. \u201cImpact investing leads with business and not philanthropy; it will fail if we put philanthropy first.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the global head of the New York-based independent philanthropy that makes grants of US$500 million around the world annually, there is a business case for market leaders and market makers to embrace impact investing by turning their investment portfolio to grant-making portfolio, in a way that will guarantee <\/span>monetary return. This is a mindset that is needed, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Impact Investing is the most sustainable business model, according to Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, project director for the impact investing policy initiative at the Lagos Business School.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cImpact investing will lead you to provide solutions and providing solutions will make you rich, since it poses the least risk and delivers the highest return,\u201d Onwuegbuzie said. \u201cIt is the best way for Nigeria to meet its sustainable development goals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Nigeria, impact investing has been successfully deployed in the power and housing sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are using our impact investing fund for off-grid energy investment in Nigeria to bring power to Nigerians, one community at a time, said Wiebe Boer, chief executive officer of All On, a Lagos-based firm that seeks to facilitate increased access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe impact is huge, the financial return is also huge, and we currently have up to 25 deal pipelines along the lines of impact investing,\u201d Boer said, adding that with the Nigerian Government\u2019s plans to take all federal universities off the (national) grid, impact investing in the power sector is imperative.<\/span><\/p>\n

Afolabi Oyedele, a partner at ACA, Nigeria\u2019s leading private equity (PE) group and co-host of the impact investment parley, told participants at the event that PE investors are beginning to see reasons to be involved in impact investing.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2012, an approximate US$8 billion of assets were committed to impacting investments 99 investors surveyed by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). In 2015, 146 investors reported that they had approximately $60 billion worth of assets under management in the impact investment sector \u2013 $10.6 billion of which they had committed in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previously, a project needed to have a minimum size of at least US30 million ACA\u2019s to meet ACA\u2019s investment criteria, according to Oyedele. But ACA now accepts projects with sizes ranging from US$5 million to US$10 million across Nigeria, Ghana, and Cote D\u2019Ivoire, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oyedele noted that impact investing can be used to provide housing for students, which is why ACA has initiated plans to roll out up to <\/span>500,000 bed units for students in Nigeria, with additional 500,000 units in Ghana and Cote D\u2019Ivoire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Bamkole, director of the Enterprise Development Center of the Pan-Atlantic University, said that even though the Center has been at the receiving end (of impact giving), the management decided from the outset to be responsible and manage resources sustainably to make an impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

Impact investing is one of the more exciting developments to emerge from the \u2018social impact\u2019 movement of more definitively measuring the results of the social sector and more comprehensively understanding the relationship between money invested and outcomes achieved.<\/span><\/p>\n

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