UCT’s GSB Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been the proud Secretariat for the National Taskforce for Impact Investing South Africa, providing operational support to its members since 2018.

In 2019, Impact Investing SA was instituted as a voluntary, multi-stakeholder partnership to promote public-private coordination in growing domestic impact investment.

The members of the Impact Investing SA working groups are the life blood of the organisation. They include the Supply side, Demand side, Foundations and Impact Measurement Management working groups. They consist of various industry professionals and practitioners dedicate their time and expertise to actuating our mission. These working groups produce market building strategies and tangible outputs, which trigger further actions, engagements, and changes in the impact investment market.

Through Impact Investing SA, South Africa became the first African member of the Global Social Impact Investing Steering Group for Impact Investing (GSG). The GSG was established as the successor to the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce. The GSG supports the work of Impact Investing SA by catalysing a global social impact investment market across a wider membership. It does so by promoting a unified view of impact investment, facilitating knowledge exchange and encouraging policy change in national markets. It brings together leaders from the worlds of finance, business and philanthropy across the globe, as well as government officials and network organisations active in supporting the impact investment sector. The GSG supports Impact Investing SA by providing access to global resources. In turn, Impact Investing SA furthers the aims of the GSG locally and contributes to learnings and events globally.

The association has been instrumental in supporting the GSG Impact Summit in 2019 and 2021, has hosted panels at several of the Presidential Investment Conferences and works closely with its African peers to fortify the continental voice of impact investing.

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