Impact Reports

WAI catalyses the gender-equitable deployment of capital in Africa by transforming power dynamics, structures, norms, mindsets, regulation and policy frameworks. The reports below illustrate this work in action.
Impact Reports
Local Capital: The key to the emergence of African women fund managers

With gratitude to the ARISE consortium – Criterion Institute, 2X [...]

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WAI Group Impact Report 2022

Founded and managed by Lelapa, the Women in African Investments (WAI) [...]

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Fund Design: Building for the underserved African market with a gender lens.

Lelapa was honoured to design and facilitate a unique workshop that br [...]

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Concept design: “Reverse Mentoring” Workshop for DFIs

With UN Women and FinDev Canada, we conceptualized a 2-day workshop ca [...]

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Concept design: Gender lens fund vehicle for track record-building

With three emerging gender lens fund managers, we designed a “Gender L [...]

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Invest2Impact Africa, a 2X Challenge initiative

Invest2Impact Africa is the first edition of a programme developed und [...]

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