AVPN Webinar: Impact Investing in a Post-COVID World: ESG Trends, Measurement & Analysis Across Asia-Pacific
While the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that there is an upcoming shift to rethink sustainability practices, business models, and investment priorities. With ESG standards being one of the most powerful and globally recognized tools to advance progress in sustainability, it is critical to ensure that we are well-positioned to integrate ESG in our current context.
AVPN Webinar: A Gender Lens Response to COVID-19 Funding & Philanthropy
Data has shown that women and girls across Asia and the globe are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Whether it is the exacerbated burdens of unpaid care work on women and girls, or the increasing rates of gender-based violence during quarantine, the gendered impacts of the current pandemic requires an urgent response from funders and philanthropists.
AVPN Webinar: Accelerating Health Innovations and Innovative Financing Models in Response to COVID-19
Public health emergencies like COVID-19 put a strain on health systems. While healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators have the ability to improve access and affordability to healthcare solutions, they are faced with challenges which include access to capital and access to markets. To improve chances of success, there is a need for collaboration amongst governments, capital providers, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and civil society to promote innovative financing mechanisms such as blended finance, pay for performance models, that can improve outcomes and scale.
AVPN Webinar: Accelerating Social Impact through Technology
Technological innovations have the capacity to accelerate social impact. They have the power to solve global development challenges across domains such as agriculture, healthcare, education, financial inclusion, and others. Technology has brought real-time information access, localized advice on weather, crops, and rural livelihoods to farmers in remote villages, resulting in overall qualitative development in life […]
AVPN Webinar: Behind the World’s First Social Impact Guarantee
What if you could get a money-back guarantee when funding impact? Ten years ago, the first Social Impact Bond (SIB) was launched, kickstarting a movement for impact investing and outcomes-based financing for social impact organisations all over the world. By adapting the SIB model to the Asian context and building on hard won lessons in […]
AVPN Webinar: Collaborative Approaches for Fostering Healthcare Innovations
2020 was a year of transformation, particularly to the healthcare innovation ecosystem. The pandemic has exposed several vulnerabilities in health systems but it has also brought to the forefront immense opportunities for the health tech/MedTech players and innovators. The challenges in scaling indigenous innovations are more systemic and need collaborative approaches with coming together of stakeholders from governments, industry, multilateral, hospitals, foundations, and innovation enablers.
AVPN Webinar: Creating a Robust Ecosystem for Social Businesses – Challenges and Opportunities
Creating a Robust Ecosystem for Social Businesses: Challenges and Opportunities The success of social businesses depends on the ecosystem that is built to incubate and support them until they become profitable ventures. This depends on the complex interdependent systems, institutions, and networks that enable social ventures to flourish. While funders and investors focus on the […]
AVPN Webinar: Demystifying Gender Lens Investing
Gender lens investing (GLI) has gained traction globally with an increasing number of mainstream investors incorporating gender-based analysis into their investment decisions. While investing along a gender lens may be more pronounced in the west, the GLI landscape in Asia has shown rapid growth over the past few years. By investing in gender equity, Asia Pacific could see $4.5 trillion added to the annual GDP by 2025.
AVPN Webinar: Empowering Rural Women through Entrepreneurship and Political Leadership
The two biggest challenges women in rural India face are the lack of financial independence as well as lack of say in local governance. Both of these push women towards dependency for access to resources, be it in the family or the public space. Supporting women in rural areas through creating entrepreneurship opportunities, an enabling ecosystem, and systemic capacity building is an effective way of ensuring financial independence for them.
AVPN Webinar: Enhancing Support for Social Purpose Organizations in SEA
Social Purpose Organizations (SPOs) are facing a multitude of challenges at this unprecedented time to sustain their operations so that they can continue serving their communities. It is even more pertinent that we explore ways in which we can work closely with our members to support SPOs’ work together.
AVPN Webinar: Financial Inclusion for Southeast Asia’s Underserved
While over 1.7 billion adults across the globe lack access to financial services, the increased digitisation and innovation of financial services and a rise in mobile platforms has led to an increase of financial inclusion across Asia. Financial service providers such as Kim An Group and Gopay are working to link MSMEs to credit and connect the unbanked and the underbanked to financial services.
AVPN Webinar: Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration Toolkit 2.0 Launch
Enabling equal participation of women and men in entrepreneurship could lead to a global economic expansion of up to 5 trillion USD. The world of entrepreneurship and investment, however, is still not equally accessible to or inclusive of all genders.
AVPN Webinar: Gender Lens Investing – Driving Value for Investors in Vietnam
Recent research has shown that there is an increasing amount of capital available for funds with a gender lens, that gender-balanced funds are outperforming their peers and that gender balanced portfolio companies are receiving increased valuations. Gender-lens investing is gaining traction in the region and is a key strategy for PE/VC firms looking to support a resilient recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
AVPN Webinar: Gender Lens Investing in Practice: Investment Showcase
AVPN with support from Investing in Women and in partnership with AmCham and AusCham in Vietnam look forward to the second installment of Gender-Lens Investing in Practice with a focus on showcasing women entrepreneurs.
AVPN Webinar: Helping Organizations in their Journey of Inclusion: Perspectives
As per WHO, 15% of the world’s population has some or the other form of disability. India alone has 26.8 million persons with disabilities as per Census 2011 which is 2.21% of the total population. People with disabilities face many challenges, starting from early education to employment to gaining respect in the society. Low education and skills results in just 0.1% getting linked to stable jobs. This has a negative impact of 5-7% on country’s GDP, according to ILO.
AVPN Webinar: Impact Measurement & Management with a Gender Lens
Impact Measurement & Management with a Gender Lens A strong impact measurement and management (IMM) practice is central to being an effective social investor, and in recent years, several IMM approaches have emerged to address this need. Join this webinar to hear from AVPN member, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), on its work to […]
AVPN Webinar: Impact Measurement, Management & Exit
Increasingly, investors are moving capital towards value creation for “all stakeholders, not just shareholders”, seeking positive returns that are not only financial but also environmental and social. Against this backdrop, various impact measurement metrics have been developed and adopted, allowing investors to monitor and report their impact under standardized frameworks.
AVPN Webinar: Investing in Technology to Enhance Impact in a Post-COVID World
Asia has become a sweet spot for investors and businesses globally. Home to over half of the world’s population, the US$31 trillion economy is fuelled by rapid population growth, increasingly tech-savvy consumers, and a growing digital economy. While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruptions and uncertainty in the economy, technology and impact investors have remained active and taken a more responsible approach into a more ESG driven portfolio.
AVPN Webinar: Investment Preparation for Impact Enterprises
It is critical for social impact enterprises to understand whether they are ready for investment as part of their fundraising journey. AVPN has been working closely with our members to develop the Social Enterprise (SE) Development toolkit for SEs to acquire a common language investment readiness framework to communicate with funders, while supporting SEs with resources to address their needs.
AVPN Webinar: Leveraging AVPN Deal Share for Creating Social Impact in India
Leveraging AVPN Deal Share for Creating Social Impact in India Whether you are a Foundation, Corporate or an Intermediary, a common problem that surfaces in the impact space is not how to find enough pipeline of deals but how to find quality deals and the right partners. Partnering with trusted organisations to help find these […]
AVPN Webinar: Making Innovative Finance Practicable in India
Making Innovative Finance Practicable in India In recent years, significant strides have been made towards improving global social outcomes across access to health, education, and better livelihoods, thanks to the efforts of multiple actors including governments, foundations and global donors. Yet a lot more needs to be done in order to achieve the ambitious Sustainable […]
AVPN Webinar: Mobilizing Human Capital for Greater Social Impact
An organization’s most valuable asset is its people – their skills, individual identities, and uniquely lived experiences that employees bring with them when they arrive to work. When these attributes are harnessed, social purpose organizations can increase their impact and work toward solving the socio-economic crisis that matters most to them. But the answers to […]
AVPN Webinar: Opportunities in Gender Lens Investing to Drive Economic Growth in Indonesia
Over the years, there has been increasing efforts to achieve women’s economic empowerment in Indonesia. There is a unanimous appetite among impact and mainstream investors to understand gender lens investing, a relatively new and emerging theme in Indonesia.
AVPN Webinar: Opportunities in Gender Lens Investing: Investment Showcase Indonesia
Hear from high-powered women-led enterprises and their investors as they share their journey towards growing their businesses and achieving women economic empowerment.
AVPN Webinar: Practicing Results-based Finance on the Ground
Practicing Results-based Finance on the Ground In the first webinar on innovative finance series, we discussed what innovative finance means, how it can be deployed effectively, the two objectives of innovative finance – increasing efficiency of existing funds vs leveraging additional funds, and addressed some of the myths and perceptions around it. In the second […]
AVPN Webinar: Re-imagining Education Post COVID-19
Re-imagining Education Post COVID-19 Emerging Trends that will Outlive the Pandemic and How We Can Prepare for Them The ongoing closure of schools across the country has compelled the education system to evolve rapidly and rely on technology-based interventions. Indian states are employing all possible channels to maintain continuity in education – online classrooms, WhatsApp, Radio, and […]
AVPN Webinar: Reviving Livelihoods Post COVID: Leveraging Innovative Finance
The COVID pandemic has forced millions of daily wagers and low-wage gig workers to return to their villages stretching the frail rural livelihoods sector to its limits. This will soon force the workers to eventually return to the urban areas for work or remain in a life of perpetual penury. The rural to urban migration can be mitigated If better skilling opportunities are made accessible and contextualized to the demand in local communities.
AVPN Webinar: Revolutionising Education Systems in a Post COVID-19 Future
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended routines we once considered normal. Overnight, education systems around the world are forced to digitise education as students move towards home-based learning. It is a historic moment in education as we are being made to confront difficult questions and challenge the traditional methods used in the formal schooling experience.
AVPN Webinar: Shifts in Chinese Private Sector Giving: Pandemic Philanthropy, China, and Technology
Since the start of the pandemic, Chinese philanthropists have donated over $250 million towards COVID-19 R&D-related initiatives. This includes funding for R&D around diagnostics, therapeutics as well as the coveted COVID-19 vaccine both within China and abroad. This wave of private donations to health R&D represents a new trend, which has the potential to reshape China’s philanthropic sector and contribute positively to collaborative international efforts.
AVPN Webinar: Strengthening Incubators and Accelerators across Asia Pacific
This session is focused on providing practical insights and resources for intermediaries interested in incorporating a gender lens and improving their organisational practice, and an interactive discussion around the needs and future opportunities for capacity building support in the region. The speakers introduce the “Guide to Impact Incubation and Acceleration” which offers a thorough and […]
AVPN Webinar: The Power of Intermediaries to Catalyse Corporate Social Impact
As consumers increasingly demand that corporates demonstrate leadership and responsibility in social and environmental issues, corporates are paying heed and responding by becoming increasingly sophisticated in their impact strategies. They are not doing this alone. By leveraging appropriate partnerships, corporates are able to contribute to social issues, identify appropriate projects and develop a coherent theory of change to connect their various impact projects. Intermediaries are increasingly becoming such ideal partners, evolving to address investment needs expressed by corporates who are intent on growing their impact through the social economy.
AVPN Webinar: Understanding the Potential of Social Enterprises and the Investment Ecosystem
In partnership with Kemenparekraf, AVPN aims to build the social investment ecosystem in Indonesia. Through a series of convenings, we will provide opportunities for social investors to connect, learn, and act on building back a strong foundation for Indonesia. We invite funders and resource providers to join us in taking a deep dive into the local ecosystem while exploring how we can build the social economy on a regional scale.
AVPN Webinar: Understanding the Role of Philanthropy and Social Finance in Innovative Giving Models
AVPN is delighted to invite you to our first hybrid event held in the post-pandemic reality. The in-person event is being held in Singapore but we wanted to open the invitation for others to join from overseas. The online audience will be engaged through a live stream as well as an interactive Q&A. Please join […]
AVPN Webinar: Using Data to Enhance Social Impact
Impact investors and other organizations in social impact space continuously strive to increase their impact and improve their organization’s efficiency. But in this pursuit, they often struggle in identifying and leveraging relevant IT-enabled solutions which can act as a reliable data-driven decision support system for them. Through this webinar two of our members, Dhwani Rural […]
AVPN Webinar: What is the Role of the Private Sector in Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery in the Philippines
Before COVID-19 swept through the world, the Asian social investment ecosystem that supports economic empowerment was maturing yet growth was uneven. The impact investment sector remained relatively underfunded and access to financing for entrepreneurs, particularly women entrepreneurs, was difficult. Post COVID-19, there is an imperative for the sector to bridge this gap in order to realise the full potential of these organisations.
AVPN x Circulate Capital: Catalyzing Capital to Advance the Circular Economy and Fight Climate Change in Asia
The circular economy presents a specific and unique opportunity for corporate, private and development finance investors to capture the value of plastic waste as well as to meaningfully mitigate the climate impacts of plastic pollution, especially in Asia. According to Circulate Capital, we could eliminate almost 150 million tonnes of GHG from the environment if […]
