Objective:

To catalyse the markets for impact investment, to stimulate investment into businesses that benefit poor and low-income people through improving access to affordable goods and services and enabling income-generating opportunities at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP).

Activities:

The Impact Programme has three components, the first of which was transferred to CDC’s balance sheet at the end of 2017:

• Investments through two funds – the Impact Fund and Impact Accelerator – transferred to CDC in September 2017.
• Technical assistance for underlying investments.
• Grants (at a systems-level) to a range of market building partners.