This investment thesis is a strategic framework for transforming how to view Africa’s current landscape. It is both practical and aspirational, designed to support the use of finance to achieve systems change. The investment thesis was developed based on learning from the first 2.5 years of creating and implementing the Fund, working with investment leaders in the portfolio and listening in the ecosystem.
The Investment Thesis provides a lens to see the conditions that will create dignified work and pathways to economic engagement for young women, particularly in rural and peri urban areas. We have an opportunity to continue to reframe, to shift our mindset, and to imagine what is possible for the current investments, what can be accomplished through partnerships in the ecosystem, and what could be possible. The thesis challenges us to imagine the future and to use that vision to shape our investment, value creation and ecosystem engagement activities.