Focus areas
Three focus areas. One mandate.
Through three focus areas, we deploy innovative finance tools to address the development gap in West Africa.
Advise and Fund
Identify, evaluate, and prepare select enterprises for funding, then engage investors to co-invest and develop new financing tools through the Savannah Alternative Investment Fund.
Research and Learn
Conduct research and support knowledge transfer to develop innovative finance tools, and monitor and evaluate SAIIF programs and investments.
Connect and Lead
Serve as an advocacy body for development aid in West Africa, and organise events to connect thought leaders, new impact investors, and investees.
Mandate
Three forms of innovation. Two challenges to solve.
Across all three focus areas, every program we run drives at least one of three innovations: generating new funding, improving funding efficiency, or enhancing results-orientation. And every program is judged by whether it closes one or both of the two challenges that hold West Africa back: investment mismatch and gender inequality.