Africa Impact Investing Awards 2025

Celebrating Champions Driving Impact Across Africa

Recognising organisations and individuals driving innovation, capital mobilisation, and measurable impact across the continent.

About the Africa Impact Investing Awards (AIIA)

The Africa Impact Investing Awards (AIIA) is a flagship initiative of the Africa Impact Summit that recognises and celebrates exceptional individuals and institutions driving positive change across the continent through impact investing.

Launched to spotlight champions who are transforming systems, the awards honour African-led efforts that catalyse capital for good, strengthen local ecosystems, and foster sustainable development.

Each year, the AIIA highlights excellence across five key categories:

Capital Providers
Ecosystem Enablers
Policy Champions
Local Innovators
Outstanding Contributors to the Movement

Nominees are rigorously assessed by a diverse panel of jurors from across Africa and globally. Finalists are selected not only for their track record but also for their commitment to advancing inclusive, scalable solutions to Africa’s pressing challenges.

AIIA 2025

Honouring Africa’s Trailblazers in Impact

Held during the Africa Impact Summit in Accra, the Africa Impact Investing Awards 2025 celebrated individuals and organisations transforming Africa through impact-driven investments. With over 80 nominations across 20+ countries, this year’s awards spotlighted ecosystem enablers, capital providers, policy pioneers, and local innovators.

Read the Full Awards Report

Explore the award categories, nominees, jury insights, and reflections from the night.

2025 Award Categories & Honourees

Relive the Gala Night

An unforgettable night of celebration, music, and community featuring a local live band and some Afrobeats dance moves sponsored by First National Bank Ghana!

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We are grateful to our Gala Night sponsor, First National Bank Ghana; awards sponsor FirstRand; and presenting partner Krutham, whose support made this celebration possible.

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Explore More About the Africa Impact Investing Awards

Financial structure of the year
This award is specifically for the innovative financial structures using new instruments and other mechanisms for impact investments. Innovations can include funding instruments or structures, impact delivery mechanisms and innovation in lending schemes to targeted beneficiaries.

Impact enterprise of the year
Awarded to businesses that aim to generate profit and have positive social or environmental impact, that are solving some of the continent’s most entrenched social or environmental problems.

Impact fund of the year
This award recognises fund managers who have a dedicated impact investment fund within an investment house.

Impact funder of the year
Awarded to funders deploying capital to support impact projects. Pension funds, endowments, corporations, banks, governments, development finance institutions, high net-worth individuals and public funders will be eligible for consideration. The award will seek to highlight funders who opted for an innovative funding approach, either as a provider of catalytic capital or a third party investor deploying capital into an innovative structure.
Impact intermediary of the year
This award recognises intermediaries that support and enable impact investing, including arrangers, accelerators, incubators, government departments, research & consulting firms, policy think-tanks or professional services companies that promote impact investments through thought leadership, project implementations and advisory work.

Impact trailblazer of the year
This award recognises an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation and influence in advancing impactful solutions to address pressing social, economic and environmental challenges in Africa. This is an individual who has pioneered transformative initiatives, set new standards for excellence in impact investing and inspired others to drive meaningful change. The recipient exemplifies visionary thinking, groundbreaking strategies and measurable contributions to creating sustainable and scalable impact across the continent.

Financial structure of the year
This award is specifically for the innovative financial structures using new instruments and other mechanisms for impact investments. Innovations can include funding instruments or structures, impact delivery mechanisms and innovation in lending schemes to targeted beneficiaries.
Submit your nomination for this category here.

Impact enterprise of the year
Awarded to businesses that aim to generate profit and have positive social or environmental impact, that are solving some of the continent’s most entrenched social or environmental problems.
Submit your nomination for this category here.

Impact fund of the year
This award recognises fund managers who have a dedicated impact investment fund within an investment house.
Submit your nomination for this category here.

Impact funder of the year
Awarded to funders deploying capital to support impact projects. Pension funds, endowments, corporations, banks, governments, development finance institutions, high net-worth individuals and public funders will be eligible for consideration. The award will seek to highlight funders who opted for an innovative funding approach, either as a provider of catalytic capital or a third party investor deploying capital into an innovative structure.
Submit your nomination for this category here.

Impact intermediary of the year
This award recognises intermediaries that support and enable impact investing, including arrangers, accelerators, incubators, government departments, research & consulting firms, policy think-tanks or professional services companies that promote impact investments through thought leadership, project implementations and advisory work.
Submit your nomination for this category here.

Impact trailblazer of the year
This award recognises an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation and influence in advancing impactful solutions to address pressing social, economic and environmental challenges in Africa. This is an individual who has pioneered transformative initiatives, set new standards for excellence in impact investing and inspired others to drive meaningful change. The recipient exemplifies visionary thinking, groundbreaking strategies and measurable contributions to creating sustainable and scalable impact across the continent.
Submit your nomination for this category here.