Impact Investment Executive Immersion Program 2026 - Agenda
Day 01
09th Feb
- Workshop agenda and introductions
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Introduction to impact investing
- What do you think impact investing is? What it is not?
- GIIN definition
- Examples of impact investing
- Challenges to the definition
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Global trends and market developments
- Growth and mainstreaming of impact capital
- Thematic and sectoral shifts
- Evolving investment structures & asset classes
- Investor motivation & demographics changing
- Increased emphasis on measurement, reporting & credibility
- Role of policy, regulation & enabling environment
- Emerging markets & real-world development outcomes
- Challenges and headwinds and emerging themes
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Introduction to measuring impact
- Revisit of what is impact investing
- IRIS impact metrics
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Impact fund structures
- “2 and 20” model
- Evergreen funds
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Blended finance structures
- Three ways to “blended” an impact fund
- Three examples of a blended finance impact fund
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Compelling impact fund design
- Strategy and thesis
- Team
- Pipeline
- Governance
- Value creation
- Fund economics
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Paths to a sustainable impact fund
- Conventional path to a sustainable impact fund
- Path using concessional grant or capital
Day 02
10th Feb
- More impact fund examples
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Funders of impact funds
- Bilateral donors
- Development finance institutions
- Foundations
- Institutional investors
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Marketing (capital raising) for an impact fund
- Revisit paths to a sustainable impact fund
- The anchor investor
- Marketing collateral (teaser, PowerPoint deck, PPM)
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More impact measurement (metrics)
- Revisit IRIS metrics
- Identifying possible impact metrics for hypothetical impact funds
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Gender lens investing (GLI)
- What is gender lens investing?
- Measuring gender equality when investing with a gender lens
- Examples of funds investing with a gender lens
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Preview of ANDE Investment Manager Training (IMT) follow-on
- Introduction to IMT
- Typical agenda for IMT
- Previous IMT deliveries