Leadership, Impact, Managing Risk
November 2013
Beyond the Deal Sheet:
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What keeps impact investors up at night?
Greenhouse gases
Lack of clean water
Food shortages
Cyber-attacks
Poverty
Volatile energy prices
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Unraveling the Wicked
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Deliberate Leadership choices:
Courage: What’s the wicked problem Collaboration: Who can help; who are allies Community: What’s needed, what’s succeeding, what
can be scaled Candour: What’s working and what isn’t and how
to recalibrate Creativity: How am I testing innovative scenarios Compassion: How am I being empathetic—not egotist Capital: How am I tapping social, environmental,
and financial capital
Deliberate Leadership
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Snapshot: Afram Plains District
Area: 823,260 hectares
Population: 161,754
Population Growth Rate: 3.6%
Population Distribution: 85% Rural
Rural Poverty Rate: 87%
National Rural Poverty Rate: 42%
Current Crop Production: 11 t/ ha for cassava, 13 t/ha for yam, 1.6 t/ha for maize and 0.8 t/ha for cashew
Potential Crop Production: 20 t/ha for cassava, 28 t/ha for yam, 5 t/ha for maize and 1.8 t/ha for cashew
Project Area
Afram Plains Case Study
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Impact Investing
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Consortium of EU, US, Ghanaian, and South Africa investors have:
• InvestedUS$6.5M in a 2,800 hectares farm in the Afram Plains District in Ghana.
• Farm and seeds sold to small holder farmers will:
Increase yield five-fold; reduce hunger, create jobs, and economic opportunities for 100,000 smallholder farmers.
Projected ROI is 10-22% in 5-7 years.
Afram Plains Case Study
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• A new investor from the EU is eager to be involved. His own due diligence, shows:
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Afram Plains Case Study
• 15 pesticides used, 8 are banned in investors’ countries; 3 are banned by 137 countries and the UN. They are allowed in Ghana.
• The farm is located in large wetland/lake ecosystem. The banned pesticides are a potential risk to aquatic species.
• These pesticides prohibit sale of products in EU—a robust and growing market.
• Children work the farm, but attend school
• NGOs are being investigated re pesticides dumping.
What would you do?
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