Impact Investing

Maia Capital Partners has developed its impact strategy based on the main national and international protocols for sustainable, impact, and responsible investing, guided by the 2030 Agenda impact matrix, UN Sustainable Development Goals, and market benchmarks related to the implementation, monitoring and management of ESG and impact practices.

Impact Alignment

Maia Capital aligns its investment and impact themes to the UN's Strategic Development Goals (SDG's)

We aim to enable inclusive growth by focusing on impact investing.

We focus on investments that yield impact without compromising financial returns.

Impact investing also enables the realisation of SDG goals through private capital

Impact Themes to realise Inclusive Growth

Maia Capital facilities a connection between private and inclusive growth

Education

Spending on public education per learner compares well with the average fees for private education for low-income families.

Targeted SDGs

Healthcare

SA’s public healthcare system does not have adequate capacity to provide quality service to the population. There is a need to provide solutions that enable access to affordable quality healthcare for this segment of the population.

Targeted SDGs

Housing

Rental housing is anticipated to be a significant form of tenure for low-income households while the backlog grows

Targeted SDGs

Clean Technology

The impact of climate change, the food crisis, and the lack of water and energy impedes access to services for the majority of the SA population.

Targeted SDGs

Financial Inclusion

South Africa has a large population of low-income households that need affordable financial products and access to finance.

Targeted SDGs

Gender Inclusion

Gender inclusion is proven to enhance business performance. It is a wrap-around across all investment themes and is therefore included as a metric in all investment opportunities

Targeted SDGs

Economic Tranformation

Economic Transformation to promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.

Targeted SDGs

Impact Themes to realise Inclusive Growth

Maia Capital facilities a connection between private and inclusive growth

Education

Spending on public education per learner compares well with the average fees for private education for low-income families.

Healthcare

SA’s public healthcare system does not have adequate capacity to provide quality service to the population. There is a need to provide solutions that enable access to affordable quality healthcare for this segment of the population.

Housing

Rental housing is anticipated to be a significant form of tenure for low-income households while the backlog grows

Clean Technology

The impact of climate change, the food crisis, and the lack of water and energy impedes access to services for the majority of the SA population.

Financial Inclusion

South Africa has a large population of low-income households that need affordable financial products and access to finance.

Gender Inclusion

Spending on public education per learner compares well with the average fees for private education for low-income families.

Economic Transformation

Economic Transformation to promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.

Maia’s Impact Strategy Development Process

1

Maia Capital has identified economic and socioenvironmental challenges it seeks to solve. To achieve this Maia focuses on investment opportunities that have a transformative impact on the society and provide competitive financial returns to investors.

2

Investments solutions development focus on main thematics: Financial Inclusion, Social Infrastructure, Clean Technology and Economic Transformation.

3

Integration of institutional legacy and long-term impact vision with the short-term outcomes and impact investments solutions (Theory of Change approach).

4

Development of the Strategic Materiality to 2030 Agenda* to establish how Maia’s impact generation strategy will contribute directly to the UN SDGs’s goals achievement. Portfolio’s alignment with national and international protocols for sustainability, impact and responsible investments.

5

ESG/impact framework development from the impact alignment prioritization established in the Strategic Materiality to 2030 Agenda.

6

ESG/impact due diligence and impact measurement, management and reporting processes implementation. Process contemplates data collection and analysis automatization.

Social, economic and political exclusion

CENTRAL PROBLEM

Maia Capital’s Theory of Change

As part of its impact strategy, Maia Capital has fully endorsed The institutional Theory of Change that reflects the logical model of Maia Capital’s impact generation, from the investments to be made, considering the main investment themes: Gender Inclusion, Financial Inclusion, Social Infrastructure, Clean Technology and Economic Transformation. At each stage, the identified problem is critically analyzed in order to understand what the main impact outputs to be generated by the investments are, from short-, medium-, long-term and legacy perspectives.

Logical Model

1. Problems

What problem do we want/can we solve?

What is the consequence of the problem for the people, for the region and others stakeholders?

2. Objectives

How can we solve the problem?

What solutions and activities need to be performed?

3. Outputs

What are the measurable effects of the objective and activity?

4. Short-Term Impact

What are the main economic and socioenvironmental transformation that will be generated in the next 5 years (for the main stakeholders)?

5. Long-Term Impact

What are the main economic and socioenvironmental transformation that will be generated in the next 15 years (for the main stakeholders)?

6. Legacy

What stays for society if Maia Capital does not exist in the future?

What problems is Maia Capital trying to solve?

Central problem:
Social, economic and political exclusion

the 9 identified problems

01

Restricted or no access to financial services

02

Low GDP growth rate

03

Restricted or no access to quality education, including financial education

04

Restricted or no access to dignified housing

05

Restricted or no access to energy services

06

Restricted or no access to internet

07

Breakdown of water and sanitation services and infrastructure

08

Restricted or no access to a quality healthcare services

09

Restricted or no access to quality food

What problems is Maia Capital trying to solve?

Central problem:
Social, economic and political exclusion

the 9 identified problems

Impact Investing