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Entrepreneurship Development

We support entrepreneurs to become both “investor ready” and “investor prepared” by positioning them to develop meaningful relationships with relevant funding partners. Module 2 must be completed before qualifying for Module 3.  For Module 2 and Module 3, all ventures undergo a prescreening process which involves completing Supivaa’s Onboarding Questionnaire to see if they qualify and best understand how our services can support them.

Module 1:

360° Business Diagnostic

This comprehensive business assessment will uncover gaps that drag on your profitability, sales growth, and employee morale helping you appreciate the depth and breadth of change required to reach your full business potential.

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Module 2:

Investor Readiness & Outreach Strategy

These investor sessions will assist you in positioning your business to receive growth capital and build partnership with leading Impact Investors and more specifically Gender-Lens Investors.

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Module 3:

Funder / Investor Outreach / Capital Raise

These capital raising exercises will help you leverage your funder relationships and receive capital to increase your business growth and increase the quality of gender equality outcomes achieved.

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Investor Development – Gender Lens Investment (GLI)

We support impact investors to optimise their investment lifecycle by uncovering risks and unmasking hidden opportunities in their analysis and processes. All prior module(s) must be completed before a partnership can proceed to the next module of our services.

Module 1:

GLI Assessment and Strategy Development

“GLI Aware”

This deep-dive assessment will help you identify your fund’s current GLI capabilities, discover strategic gaps and evaluate its readiness to implement enhanced GLI infrastructure.

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Module 2:

GLI Investor Preparedness and Outreach

“GLI Integrated”

These coaching sessions and business development supports will assist you in understanding the GLI landscape, refine your fund’s market positioning and make connections with relevant co-investors to become a more competitive GLI player.

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Module 3:

GLI TA Programming and Amplification

“GLI Champion”

These demonstration and amplification exercises will explain how to implement a GLI action plan(s) (internally and/or alongside your fund’s portfolio companies) to increase the quality of gender equality outcomes achieved.

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Technical Assistance

We research, design and implement “fit for purpose” technical assistance programmes to unlock new pathways to change. We believe in the power of co-creation, because solutions are best understood by those closest to a problem. Hence why we focus on partnering with local partners and applying adaptive management principles. We mainstream gender equality themes throughout our technical assistance programmes to assure the sustainability of impacts achieved. To maximise results, we often run technical assistance programmes in conjunction with capital deployment activities.

Our Services

  • Conduct feasibility studies and business planning exercises (i.e. financial forecasts) to assess commercial viability
  • Provide business intelligence (i.e. market and product) landscape reports to identify key players, business models and trends
  • Oversee piloting of new interventions (i.e. application of innovative technologies, adjustment of investment lifecycle processes and application of diversity, equity, and inclusion coaching)
  • Build market linkages between investors and prospective investees (i.e. capital raising, pitch competitions and networking sessions)
  • Convene relevant stakeholders (i.e. government agencies, investors, philanthropists and ventures) to test ideas, exchange solutions, and strengthen relations

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

We provide third-party evaluation of technical assistance projects and impact investment portfolios. Our strengths lie in applying mixed methods and participatory data collection processes to inform multi-factor analyses and a holistic review of results. We leverage diverse multi-stakeholder partnerships to help us make sense of changemaking, promote local ownership of solutions, and optimise performance. We are committed to widely sharing our findings and learnings to improve accountability and advance impactful changemaking, everywhere.

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  • Develop practical and robust monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems (i.e. theory of change diagrams, frameworks, tools, case studies and learning reports)
  • Analyse results to understand the myriad of contributing factors (i.e. contribution analysis, process tracing, and results measurement analysis)
  • Build the confidence and capacity of local practitioners to apply and adapt our evidence-based solutions in-context (i.e. guidebooks and coaching sessions)
  • Support knowledge dissemination (i.e. workshops and feedback sessions) to donors and LPs
  • Create informative data visualisations to promote greater understanding and uptake of tested technical assistance programmes and impact investment structures