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
WAI Group Annual Impact Report 2023

Welcome to WAI’s 2023 Annual Impact Report. In this year’s [...]

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Impact Reports
Local Capital: The key to the emergence of African women fund managers – 2024

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

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Impact Reports
WAI Group Impact Report 2022

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

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Impact Reports
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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