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Français The founder of Eden Tree participates to a public debate organized by The Guardian in LondonEntrepreneurs | 07/12/2016 The Guardian is running a public debate on December 7 on Africa's agri-food sector on the following topic: “Is big business a force for good for African farmers?”. Catherine Krobo-Edusei, Founder and Director of Eden Tree in Ghana, participates to the panel, gathering someone from the... |
 A new report on poverty and shared prosperityIntelligence & Analysis | 05/12/2016The World Bank published a new report on the state of poverty in the world. The study says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected growth trends, reducing high inequality may be a necessary component to... |
 I&P and USAID gather in Dakar to celebrate the new partnership for Investment Impact in AfricaNews | 01/12/2016 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) gathered on November 30 in Dakar to celebrate the new partnership, announced last October, that consists in launching an innovative impact investing and entrepreneurship acceleration... |
 I&P joins Global Entrepreneurship Week, celebrating its partnership with USAIDNews | 17/11/2016 I&P contributes to the Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 14-18 2016), the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and entrepreneurs who launch startups, bring new ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. Following the launch of the new partnership with... |
 Jean-Michel Severino participates to IGNITE conference in AmsterdamNews | 16/11/2016 Spark and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) present the 4th IGNITE Conference 2016: Tackling Instability, Radicalisation and Forced Migration. This year’s conference focuses on how we can tackle root causes of instability, radicalization and forced migration in Africa,... |
 PEG Africa raises $1.5 million to support distribution of solar home systems in GhanaEntrepreneurs | 02/11/2016 PEG Africa, West Africa’s leading pay-as-you-go financing firm, with operations in Ghana and Ivory Coast, has raised a $1.5 M in a debt round led by Responsibility in participation of Oikocredit’s and SunFunder, to fund the purchase of solar home systems that will reach 75,000 people in... |
 I&P publishes a new study on impact investment and the SDGsIntelligence & Analysis | 27/10/2016 Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) and the Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI) publish a study on impact investment in Africa, entitled “Investing in Africa’s development: how impact investing can contribute to meeting the Sustainable Development... |
 Portrait of Jaco Chan Kit Waye, co-founder of Indian Ocean Trepang in MadagascarEntrepreneurs | 24/10/2016 A true "Serial entrepreneur" highly committed on environmental issues, Jaco Chan Kit Waye created the first Malagasy business specialized in the aquaculture of sea cucumbers, Indian Ocean Trepang (IOT). ► Read more on IOT Jaco Chan Kit Waye has long been... |
 A crowdfunding campaign to support 6000 smallholder farmers in MadagascarEntrepreneurs | 22/10/2016After a first successful campaign for the Mauritanian company CDS, I&P partners again with the American crowdfunding platform Kiva. The new projets aims to support the activities of Phileol, a Malagasy company specialized in the collect and transformation of ricin seeds. The loan of 50 000... |
 I&P co-organizes the 5th training seminar dedicated to its investeesEntrepreneurs | 21/10/2016 From October 19 to 21, Investisseurs & Partenaires, in partnership with the African Club of Entrepreneurs (Club Africain des Entrepreneurs), organizes the fifth annual meeting of its partners, gathering about fifty managers of African businesses in CEDEP, Fontainebleau. Organized in... |