Increasing Risk Tolerance to Drive Impact: #2 Climate action & gender impact
Welcome to the second episode of Increasing Risk Tolerance to Drive Impact – a podcast series from the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group company – exploring ways to develop game-changing infrastructure in underserved geographies. Most infrastructure has been designed, implemented or run by men, often without considering female participation in decision-making, development or operation of projects. A common, albeit mistaken, assumption is that women automatically benefit from infrastructure projects in the same way as men.
In this episode, Mariana Graça, Investment Specialist – Sustainability & Impact at Ninety One, Fund manager of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), draws on EAIF’s approach to boosting resilience in the fight against climate change and delivering more inclusive infrastructure for women and the physically impaired.
A key takeaway from this episode is that diversity of thought can disproportionately improve the transformative impact of infrastructure investments – creating outsized benefits to marginalised members of society. The more we understand the implications, the more inclusive societies we can build.
Our guest is:
Mariana Graça, Investment Specialist – Sustainability & Impact, at Ninety One, Fund manager of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF).
Your host is Lindsay Williams, business broadcaster.
To find out more about how EAIF delivers game-changing projects that help close Africa’s infrastructure gap with greater urgency and pace, visit our website.
This podcast was edited by OG Podcasts.
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