Invest in women. Invest in climate. Create long-term prosperity.
Mission
AMF’s mission is to strengthen the long-term commercial viability of SMEs in Africa and Latin America to drive economic transformation. This leads to more jobs and income generation benefiting more people and in turn, increased purchasing power and improved qualities of life.
Vision
Economic transformation where SMEs in Africa and Latin America can scale sustainably and create well-paid jobs.
What We Do
AMF supports SMEs across Africa and Latin America through the following specific activities:
Technical assistance
High impact SMEs need capacity building support to become more financially resilient and better prepared to generate more social and environmental impact. We provide bespoke support to SMEs ranging from gender-smart technical assistance to investor readiness.
Catalytic capital
Access to capital is one of the key biggest barriers to businesses getting off the ground. We offer SMEs with investments that may have lower returns and/or higher risks or linked to impact to incentivise impact creation. All of this is done with the expectation that these investments will be truly catalytic and more likely to bring strong social and environmental rewards, and mobilize private sector capital.
Thought leadership and research
We believe gender and climate issues can't be addressed on an ad-hoc basis. Rather, these complex challenges require an intentional approach, which brings explicit gender and climate solutions into all investment decisions. Over recent years, gender lens investing has gained traction, although as global temperatures rise, the demand for climate investing will only continue to increase. That's how we came to coining a new term: GLIC—Gender Lens Investing for Climate.
We collect and disseminate data on GLIC to build up the field more broadly.
Theory of Change
Our Journey to Date
2016:
- AMF was was founded by the senior management team of AlphaMundi Group, an impact fund management company headquartered in Geveva, Switzerland
2018:
- AMF became operational
- Co-created the G-SEARCh consortium
2020:
- Completed the Powering Agriculture program, funded by USAID
2021:
- Launched the WE4F program, funded by GIZ
- Launched the DeveloPPP program, funded by DEG
2022:
- Adopted new corporate strategy
- Launched a partnership with SEAF to implement Daraja Impact, funded by SDC
2025:
- Launched Green Growth Alliance, supported by the U.S.-Japan Foundation
- Launched the P4G partnership with Safi Organics
“To include workers of both sexes shows us that we are an inclusive business. It’s an opportunity for us. Diversity of opinion helps the business.”
— Villa Andina Management (AMF SME partner)
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