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Africa Impact Investing Awards 2025

Nominations are now open for The Africa Impact Investment Awards 2025, sponsored by FirstRand. 

The award recognises success in the rapidly growing impact investing industry. They celebrate outstanding achievements and contributions that drive positive social and environmental change while creating value for investors in Africa.

For more info and nomination categories, click here: Africa Impact Investing Awards 2025

The award recognises success in the rapidly growing impact investing industry. They celebrate outstanding achievements and contributions that drive positive social and environmental change while creating value for investors in Africa. The Africa Impact Investment Awards 2025 was sponsored by FirstRand. For more information, click here.

 

  • 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 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.

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