Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital

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Congratulations to our portfolio company AG CHAVIN for training all their suppliers of avocado on relevant sustainability topics, as part of the environmental and social action plan co-defined with Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital with the support of the Earthworm Foundation #impactmangegement #engagement #collectiveaction

Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital’s 2023 Impact Report is out! - In 2023, our investments reached 8 million individuals and 91 thousand small businesses, among which 77% #underserved - We adopted new quantitative #impacttargets to better appreciate #impactperformance at portfolio level - We refined sectorial #impactindicators allowing to move beyond “unidimensional data about the scale of impact” and reflect the characteristics of beneficiaries and their satisfaction - Our impact results regarding #FinancialInclusion were benchmarked against the The Global Impact Investing Network impact performance tool, a step towards increased comparability in #impactdisclosure - We selected #casestudies with the purpose of highlighting what successful and less successful impact investments look like and what can be learned for the future This report was guided by the “Impact Performance Reporting Norms V1” published in April 2024 by Impact Frontiers, as we participate to the Norms’ Pilot program. Download the report here: https://lnkd.in/e4P49z4e Please reach out if you have any questions or feedback!

How to make impact reporting a valuable process? Thank you, New Private Markets, for inviting Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital’s Sustainability Director Jocelyne Ozdoba on stage to discuss this topic together with fellow panelists Anja Gräf Diane Kulju Manuela Cedarmas Natasha Franks and Mike McCreless during the Impact Investor Global Summit in London last month. 💡Good reporting practices recommended by Impact Frontiers reporting norms also drive good managerial practices 💡The aim is not only to measure, but also to manage and improve impact in collaboration with portfolio companies 💡Right sizing reporting and being thoughtful with the resources invested - compared to the actual usefulness of information - remain an ongoing concern 💡“Reporting for reporting sake” is definitively behind us! #ImpactInvestorSummit #impactinvesting Impact Capital Managers Impact Principles

Listening to Signatory voices is essential to understanding impact investors' challenges and opportunities in scaling the market with integrity and how the Impact Principles can continue to contribute to the field and lead in a way that's "fit for purpose”.   ⭐️As we celebrate our 5th anniversary and shape the next phase of the Impact Principles, we asked our Signatories about what their motivations were for becoming a Signatory, how the Impact Principles have supported their work, and what role the Impact Principles have played in the broader market. They also provided valuable input into our future strategic priorities. In this series, we are sharing highlights of these Signatory voices with the broad impact investing community so we can listen, learn, and lead together. ❔ The first question: What was your motivation for becoming a Signatory? A group of founding signatories share what influenced their decision to adopt the Impact Principles. Featuring Actis, BlueOrchard Finance Ltd, Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, Calvert Impact , DWM, IDB Invest, IFC - International Finance Corporation, LeapFrog Investments, Nuveen, a TIAA company and Swedfund International.   The Impact Principles were launched in April 2019 with the support of 58 founding Signatories. We are immensely grateful for the vision and leadership shown by these Signatories as early adopters, creating and aligning with a global standard for impact management, carving a path marked with rigor, integrity and accountability. #impactprinciples #impactinvesting #impactmanagement  Shami Nissan, Maria Teresa Zappia, Jennifer Pryce, Alessandro Maffioli, Alexandre Meira da Rosa, Andrew Kuper, Julie Wallace, Rekha Unnithan, CFA, Pete Murphy, CFA, Hannah Schiff, Jocelyne Ozdoba, Johanna Raynal, Joohee Rand, Diane Damskey, Henry Vehslage, The Global Impact Investing Network

On May 6, Impact Frontiers will host a webinar on the recently published Impact Performance Reporting Norms. We’re excited to be joined by expert panelists who will speak about their own experiences creating and reading impact performance reports, and how they anticipate the Reporting Norms shaping that process going forward. We will also present details of the pilot phase for the Reporting Norms. The webinar will run from 11am to 12pm ET, and have the following structure: 1. Introducing the Impact Performance Reporting Norms  2. Panel discussion: 🎙 Jocelyne Ozdoba (Director of Sustainability, Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital) 🎙 Lauren Rosales Farello (Director of Operations, Blue Haven Initiative) 🎙 Rachel Bass (Managing Director, Impact Management, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation) 🎙 Carli Roth (Principal, The Rockefeller Foundation)  3. Overview of the pilot phase Please register for this webinar in advance by clicking here: https://lnkd.in/eBKXzT3P For context, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, Impact Frontiers facilitated an 18-month consensus-building process to establish Norms for investors in private markets about the content, structure, and format of impact performance reports. More than 350 impact fund managers, asset owners and allocators, assurance and verification providers, and civil society organizations provided feedback via written comment letters and through eight interactive webinars and in-person workshops held in New York City, Tokyo, London, and Rio De Janeiro. Version 1 of the Impact Performance Reporting Norms is available here: https://lnkd.in/e7-JMFD9 The work of elevating impact performance reporting is far from over. We are planning a number of workstreams to support report preparers, users, and independent reviewers in adopting the Reporting Norms. We hope you can join us to help continue to move the Reporting Norms from development toward implementation. 

How to produce decision-useful impact performance reports and avoid any “impact-washing” or “cherry-picking”? To answer this question, Impact Frontiers, with the contribution of Blue like an Orange and other Impact Principles signatories, has facilitated a consensus-building initiative for investors in private markets, focusing on establishing shared expectations for impact performance reporting. The result of this initiative has just been published — Version 1 of the Impact Performance Reporting Norms.   More information is available at https://lnkd.in/ggAJ6zPh.   These voluntary Reporting Norms are designed to guide the creation of impact performance reports shared privately by fund managers with their capital providers, as well as the creation of public impact reports. Blue like an Orange will take part to the pilot phase from 2024 to 2026 to help co-creating solutions to shared reporting challenges among the impact investing industry.    #impactinvesting #impactreport #impactmanagement #ImpactPrinciples 

Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital Fund announces $18.0 million financing to Fuentebuena (the “Company”), a Mexican lender dedicated to increase access to integral financial solutions for the Mexican underbanked population. - Financing provided by Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital aims to increase access to financing for public municipal employees and for ride-sharing platform drivers in Mexico. The Company’s businesses will directly contribute to improving the well-being of public municipal employees in Mexico with financial products such as payroll loans for home improvement, as well as increasing self-employment opportunities for ride-sharing platform drivers via the leasing of natural gas converted vehicles. - Funding will contribute to the achievement of several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals highlighted in the Fund’s impact thesis most importantly SDG 8.10: Access to Finance, SDG 8.3: Support to Entrepreneurship and SDG 11.1: Safe and Affordable Housing. #sdg #impactinvesting

We're #hiring a new Traineeship in Legal department in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Apply today or share this post with your network.

We're #hiring a new Traineeship in Legal department in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Apply today or share this post with your network.