Africa Impact Summit 2025

The Africa Impact Summit is hosted by the Africa Impact Investing Group (AIIG), launched at the 2023 AIS in Cape Town, South Africa

The Africa Impact Investing Group (AIIG) is a dynamic network working with policymakers, investors, entrepreneurs, and civil society to channel capital towards impactful initiatives that also deliver financial returns. AIIG comprises the GSG National Partners in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia; supported by affiliated African Taskforces.

The AIIG’s key focus areas are:

Mobilizing capital
Building local financing ecosystems, driving impact, and supporting a pipeline of businesses.

Policy action
Accelerating and scaling progress at national and regional levels.

Research and knowledge capture
Informing action and scaling successful practices through learning and insights.

Africa Impact Summit Fast Facts

2023

AIS 2023 saw 500+ Delegates from across Africa and the world (investors, development banks, entrepreneurs)

Key Results

• Growth in impact investing across healthcare, renewable energy, fintech, and gender-lens investing.

• Public-private partnerships formed to address challenges in education and climate.

2024

AIS 2024 saw 300+ Delegates from 17 countries, with 72% from key African markets (South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia)

• Significant investments from curated deal rooms into SMEs and infrastructure.
• Sector growth in agriculture, education, energy, healthcare, and technology.
• Policymakers developed frameworks to reduce barriers to impact investing.

Key Results

• Significant investments from curated deal rooms into SMEs and infrastructure.
• Sector growth in agriculture, education, energy, healthcare, and technology.
• Policymakers developed frameworks to reduce barriers to impact investing.

What to Expect

• Knowledge
  Highly engaging plenary sessions, panel discussions, debates, thematic break-outs and field excursions
• Dialogue
  Regional meetings, country dialogue sessions and thematic focused roundtables
• Networking
  Ample networking opportunities and fun activities to make connections that matter-before, during and after the summit
• Investments
  Highly curated deal room that offers fund managers, projects and entrepreneurs a platform to connect with capital providers

Why Attend

The Africa Impact Summit is the leading forum that is driving networking, deal making and impact investing thought leadership in Africa.

The summit will provide a platform to make connections, discover opportunities and share insights to drive a new form of responsible investment principle that works for Africa. Through 40+ speakers, participants will learn about the key sectors that are driving development and impact in Africa, including agriculture, climate action, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, infrastructure, technology, and water.

Discussions and dialogue at this year’s summit will bring special focus to the continent’s strategic development framework, Agenda 2063 – calling for urgent action and greater commitment by all actors to deliver on its promise for inclusive and sustainable development by the year 2063 and beyond.