Building Zimbabwe's Impact Economy

Mobilising Capital for Sustainable Development and Inclusive Growth

Impact Investing Zimbabwe (IIZ) is Zimbabwe’s Taskforce for Impact Investment, a multi-stakeholder platform established to advance and strengthen the impact investment ecosystem in Zimbabwe.

IIZ serves as a catalyst for building an inclusive impact economy where financial returns are pursued alongside measurable social and environmental outcomes. We bring together investors, businesses, policymakers, development partners, intermediaries, and consumers to mobilise capital towards sustainable development and inclusive economic growth.

Our Vision

To build an impact-driven Zimbabwe where investment serves as a force for sustainable development, empowering people, strengthening communities, and safeguarding the environment while generating long-term economic value.

Our Mission

To convene stakeholders, mobilise resources, and foster innovation that accelerates the growth of Zimbabwe’s impact investing ecosystem and contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our Strategic Objective

To build and strengthen a business-led impact economy by connecting investors, enterprises, policymakers, and development partners to identify and scale opportunities that generate sustainable social, environmental, and economic value.

 

Why Impact Investing?

Zimbabwe possesses tremendous opportunities to deploy capital into businesses and projects that create financial returns while addressing social and environmental challenges.

However, barriers such as limited investment readiness, disconnected market participants, inadequate project preparation, information asymmetries, policy constraints, and limited access to appropriate forms of capital continue to restrict investment flows. IIZ exists to help bridge these gaps by building the ecosystem, strengthening collaboration, and creating pathways for capital to reach impactful opportunities.

We believe that:

  • Capital should create positive impact alongside financial returns

  • Businesses can be powerful drivers of social and environmental progress

  • Sustainable development requires collaboration between public and private sectors

  • Inclusive economic growth is essential for Zimbabwe’s long-term prosperity

  • Impact investing can unlock innovative solutions to Zimbabwe’s development challenges

Our Focus Area

IIZ works to increase the flow of impact capital into priority sectors 

that have the potential to create significant economic, social, and 

environmental outcomes.

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Financial Services

Agriculture & Agro-Processing

Renewable Energy

Strengthening Zimbabwe’s financial intermediation ecosystem to increase the flow of impact capital to underserved businesses, entrepreneurs, and communities. We work with banks, pension funds, insurers, development finance institutions, fund managers, and investors to develop innovative financing solutions and strengthen the impact investment market.

Promoting investment into agricultural value chains that improve market access, strengthen food systems, increase productivity, and support rural livelihoods through scalable and investment-ready opportunities.

Supporting the development and financing of renewable energy projects that expand access to reliable power, promote energy security, and accelerate Zimbabwe’s transition towards a sustainable future.

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Affordable Housing

Light Manufacturing & Value Addition

Facilitating investment into affordable, sustainable, and inclusive housing solutions that improve living standards while expanding housing finance and investment opportunities.

Driving capital towards enterprises that strengthen domestic production, increase value addition, create employment opportunities, and enhance Zimbabwe’s industrial competitiveness.