British Council/Ashoka Africa 2019 Impact! Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit- Nairobi, Kenya

Application Deadline: October 15th 2019

Impact!Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit is a partnership to accelerate social innovations to Africa’s most pressing challenges by Inspiring + Connecting social entrepreneurs, changemakers, investors, and other ecosystem stakeholders across Africa.

Building on the inaugural Impact!Africa Summit of June 2018 in South Africa, the 2019 Summit rides on the visions of both the British Council and Ashoka’s effort with Social Enterprises + Entrepreneurship in the Social Innovation space.

Hosted by the British Council and Ashoka, Impact!Africa 2019 interactive Dialogues + Action will be on:

Main theme: Collaborative Finance for Social Innovation and how to catalyse social innovation (social enterprise + social entrepreneurship) in Africa through:

1. Future Financing Models for Social Innovation: (1) Financing models for Africa – (2) Financial Innovation-The financing continuum: Institutions, services and products; (4) Impact financing/investment;
2. A Framework for Social Innovation: (1) Expansion of African social innovation industry (2) Potentialities, strategic development approaches and technical capabilities required; (3) Pragmatic approaches to the development of social innovation, (4) Getting everyone aligned

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