Impact Investment Executive Immersion Program 2026 - Agenda

Day 01
09th Feb

  • Workshop agenda and introductions
  • 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
  • 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
  • Introduction to measuring impact
    • Revisit of what is impact investing
    • IRIS impact metrics

  • Impact fund structures
    • “2 and 20” model
    • Evergreen funds
  • Blended finance structures
    • Three ways to “blended” an impact fund
    • Three examples of a blended finance impact fund
  • Compelling impact fund design
    • Strategy and thesis
    • Team
    • Pipeline
    • Governance
    • Value creation
    • Fund economics
  • 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
  • Funders of impact funds
    • Bilateral donors
    • Development finance institutions
    • Foundations
    • Institutional investors
  • Marketing (capital raising) for an impact fund
    • Revisit paths to a sustainable impact fund
    • The anchor investor
    • Marketing collateral (teaser, PowerPoint deck, PPM)

  • More impact measurement (metrics)
    • Revisit IRIS metrics
    • Identifying possible impact metrics for hypothetical impact funds
  • 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

  • Preview of ANDE Investment Manager Training (IMT) follow-on
    • Introduction to IMT
    • Typical agenda for IMT
    • Previous IMT deliveries