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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:

q Courage: What’s the wicked problemq Collaboration: Who can help; who are allies q Community: What’s needed, what’s succeeding, what

can be scaledq Candour: What’s working and what isn’t and how

to recalibrateq Creativity: How am I testing innovative scenariosq Compassion: How am I being empathetic—not egotistq 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:

Ø Increase yield five-fold; reduce hunger, create jobs, and economic opportunities for 100,000 smallholder farmers.

Ø Projected ROI is 10-22% in 5-7 years.

Afram Plains Case Study

- -• 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?