Course Description
The Africa Health Financing Forum is an impact leadership programme targeting investors, donors, governments and social entrepreneurs, designed to bridge the current healthcare funding gap, advance innovative financing models and provide funders as well as innovators with the tools needed to catalyse sustainable growth and healthcare investing.
The programme provides the opportunity to learn how to apply innovative finance to healthcare, connect and collaborate with other Pan-African investors and social entrepreneurs and become an integral part of a growing Community of Practice of Africa’s leading impact investors and practitioners.
Why AHFF
- Bridge the healthcare financing gap in Africa.
- Learn powerful innovative financing models (RBF, blended finance, guarantees, SIBs).
- Strengthen investment-readiness and operational excellence.
- Join a Pan-African network of investors, innovators, and health leaders.
- Participate in the Community of Practice of impact investors and practitioners.
Course Structure:
The programme comprises 6-week impact investing training sessions designed to build a strong community of leaders, and focusing on innovative finance approaches to address the healthcare funding gap. Participants will attend weekly online workshops with case studies and expert insights on funding models and de-risking private capital for African healthcare. The graduates will be recognized as African Impact Leaders.
After completing the Leadership Programme, participants will continue to an immersion programme designed to build a strong community of practice. Activities will include site visits, access to knowledge products, investor-ready deals, and more. The forum aims to train 50 social investors and entrepreneurs. The programme participation is priced at USD 1,500 per delegate.
Targeted Audience
- Health Social Investors: The social investors, recruited by AVPA from its network base, will include the full ‘Continuum of Capital Providers’; from grant-making foundations, aid agencies and governments to debt and private equity and VC funds, from development finance institutions to government healthcare agencies, from commercial banks to family offices.
Reasons for Funders to join the forum:
- Learning: Access to an exclusive program and knowledge on how to use innovative finance in healthcare financing on the continent.
- Networking: Opportunities to engage with other pan african healthcare investors, funders and entrepreneurs
- Investing: Access to deals and investment opportunities in the healthcare sector from the AVPA ecosystem. A better understanding of what entrepreneurs go through in running healthcare ventures.
- Co-creating: Opportunities to work with like-minded investors and investees who are interested in co-creating and implementing innovative financing approaches specifically designed to meet Africa’s unique challenges in healthcare delivery
- Lifelong community of practice: Get into a lifelong community of practice of African healthcare investors and practitioners.
- Health Social Enterprises: The social enterprises who have a focus on health are recruited from AVPA’’s network base
Reasons for Social Enterprises to join the forum:
- Learning: Access to an exclusive knowledge hub on how to finance the healthcare system in Africa
- Networking: Opportunities to meet with other entrepreneurs and healthcare funders and investors
- Investing: Access to investors to grow finance and grow their ventures. A better understanding of what investors look for when assessing pipelines.
- Co-creating: Opportunities to work with like-minded investors and investees who are interested in co-creating and implementing innovative financing approaches specifically designed to meet Africa’s unique challenges in healthcare delivery
- Lifelong community of practice: Get into a lifelong community of practice of African healthcare investors and practitioners.
