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In a recent ESG Investor article, Vital Capital’s Head of Impact, Tamar Pashtan, shared her insights on the evolution of private equity’s role in impact investing in sub-Saharan Africa, incentivising local institutional investors and Vital’s approach to creating its own deal flow.

“Zeroing in on basic needs is a winning strategy because it drives real transformative change, such as first-time access to potable drinking water and essential nutritional improvements in the form of proteins and dairy products.”

Check out the full article here.

The Vital Capital team is delighted to receive two Environmental Finance IMPACT awards: one for Asset manager of the year – mid-size and the second for impact measurement and metrics (in-house IMM framework). These awards recognize the work of the world’s leading impact investors and, according to the judges, “highlight emerging pockets of best practice.” At a time when investors across the globe are increasingly seeking to align profit with purpose, these honors are all the more meaningful.

The recognition is testament to Vital’s dedication to our investees and to ensuring their future sustainability – as well as our thoughtful impact measurement and management, which drives tangible outcomes for our investors, communities and the environment.

We are proud to continue to move the dial forward towards greater accountability and standardization. Find more information on our award wins here.

At Vital Capital, we believe that understanding the challenges facing our end users is key to developing sustainable solutions that deliver maximum impact.

That’s why we don’t engage only with investors and our portfolio companies as part of the investment process – but also with the communities directly served, through beneficiary studies conducted at the outset of projects. The findings provide a baseline to help quantify the potential impact of an investment. They also help us to refine our approach and develop better, more relevant solutions that build community trust.

We’re pleased to share the key outputs and learnings from the beneficiary studies conducted by our environmental infrastructure platform, Vital Environment, with our support, for two water projects in Karnataka, India. The Raichur Water Project will provide the necessary infrastructure to deliver tap water to 1.77 million people, 64% of whom will be receiving first-time household tap water access. The study findings indicate that the impact of the infrastructure is expected to disproportionately benefit women and girls, 78% of whom are fetching water 2-3 times per day. The Karnataka Irrigation Project involves the construction of piped irrigation infrastructure for 12,000 farms in the severely drought-stressed region, benefitting over 60,000 people, where 32% of the population participates in seasonal climate-induced migration for basic income.

We invite you to review the special feature below and welcome your feedback. We look forward to sharing the results of our impact assessments as the project develops in the years ahead.

Insights from Karnataka

Vital Capital is pleased to share the results following the independent verification of our alignment of our impact management practices with the Operating Principles for Impact Management.

Vital engaged BlueMark, the industry’s foremost verifier, to perform the independent verification and benchmarking process. Their report reveals that Vital matched – and in many cases outperformed — against both the median ratings and a peer group of impact-only asset managers, across all aspects.

As industry standards continue to evolve in the ESG and impact investing space, this verification validates Vital’s commitment to deliver impact at scale in line with impact management best practices. We invite you to read the verification report here.

Vital Capital is pleased to be participating as a supporting partner in the World Economic Forum’s Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) Initiative to support the Humanitarian Impact and Resilience Challenge. The challenge is a global call for commercially viable and scalable efforts that benefit the recovery of local communities at heightened risk or have suffered from conflict, natural disasters and forced displacement. Over one billion people live in fragile settings around the world and 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance this year. As the impact of conflict, hunger, and natural disasters grows around the world, the initiative recognizes the critical need for solutions that increase the self-reliance and resilience of affected and at-risk communities.

The challenge invites organizations, entrepreneurs and partnerships from both the private and public sectors to make their submissions by 17 November 2022. Winners of the challenge will receive mentorship and guidance from the World Economic Forum’s Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) Initiative and supporting partners—including Vital Capital—to help them become investor-ready and advance their impact.

Visit the challenge page on Uplink to learn more: https://bit.ly/3y4t9kx

Vital is glad to support this challenge in partnership with IKEA Foundation, Deloitte, British International Investment (BII), the European Commission, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank Group, and the World Food Programme (WFP).