I&P wishes you a happy new year!

Jean-Michel Severino and all the team of Investisseurs & Partenaires wish you the best for 2017! 

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Editorial of Jean-Michel Severino

With all team of Investisseurs & Partenaires, I wish you a great and happy new year!

2016 has been a big year for I&P: we continued to disinvest the fund I&P Développement, built and pursued our efforts with the fund IPDEV2, almost fully invested I&P Afrique Entrepreneurs… not forgetting the progress on the project I&P Africa Instructure and the start of our consulting activities.

We also developed our militant and advocacy activities, notably through two partnerships with the Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI): the publication of the book “Entreprenante Afrique” co-written with Jérémy Hajdenberg and the release of the study “Investing in Africa’s Development”.

I&P is not just an investment team: what fundamentally drives us is the ambition to improve living conditions and reduce poverty on the African continent, while building bonds on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea. Surely our contribution is limited considering our means and the size of our team, but I believe it could inspire many others: many other entrepreneurs to start or develop their business, many other professionals to make impact investments, many other investors and public institutions to support the nascent impact investing industry.

We would not exist and would not demonstrate anything if we did not manage to make successful investments, but our purpose goes beyond. This is why our advocacy projects are particularly crucial to the achievement of our mission: to promote the emergence of a new generation of African enterprises.

I would especially like to express my best wishes to Africa, France and Europe. The first is going through a period of complexity and new challenges: let’s wish for peace, macro-economic stabilization and economic recovery. The second will organize an important political election this year: let’s hope for a sound choice. The third is facing major political and identity challenges: let’s hope it doesn’t forget its relations with the neighboring continent in the midst of this new turmoil. 

This year I&P is celebrating its 15th anniversary: an important step that we will allow us to reflect on the tremendous evolution and impacts generated by I&P since 2002!