Focus 1
Advise and Fund.
We prepare and connect investees and investors to appropriate impact investments, and we deploy capital with a gender lens through the Savannah Alternative Investment Fund (SAIF).
Expected outcomes
Investee readiness
We identify, evaluate, and prepare select enterprises for funding with targeted technical assistance, so that capital, when it arrives, can be absorbed productively.
Improve efficiency of capital
Investor engagement
We engage investors to co-invest and we develop new financing tools through the Savannah Alternative Investment Fund (SAIF), de-risking deals through guarantees and structured instruments.
Generate additional funding
Gender-lens financing
We finance select enterprises through the SAIF with a deliberate gender lens, choosing capital structures that reach women entrepreneurs at scale.
Enhance results-orientation
Investment Mismatch
- Lack of technical capability and knowledge
- Weak innovation and investment infrastructure
Gender Inequality
- Inconsistent access to and control of capital
- Unfocused earmarked development aid