Scaled Impact (NPC) is a project development social enterprise based in Johannesburg and Berlin.

 

Scaled Impact identifies, structures and implements high quality solutions and projects for economic growth in untapped industries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. We do this on our own account as a project developer and as an advisor to third parties.

 

We focus (mainly) on projects that create markets for producers across the continent and have the greatest benefit for the poorest people. Despite the popular vision of Africa as the continent of endless, untapped veld there is a serious shortage of land. Either because it is owned and in very small parcels, or it is of too low quality to be cultivated. Where regulation is weak and oversight challenging, as in much of central Africa, farmers are expanding into forests, cutting back trees and reducing habitats and biodiversity. On top of the scarcity of land, yields are among the lowest in the world. 

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This is changing however and Scaled Impact is part of the solution. We create opportunities to unlock potential, protect biodiversity, make markets and raise incomes by taking a risk role and investing in the early stages, bringing the necessary parties together including site owners, technology specialists, operators and finance providers. 

 

Our goal is a portfolio of commercial investments with high community integration driving long-term economic and social development across Southern Africa.

 

Our Approach

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We take elements from existing development projects, mainly with an agricultural base and take them to scale by embedding them in a commercial framework. These elements can be some variety of the cropping methods developed, the infrastructure used, the processing technologies or storage and logistics concepts. We establish the agricultural and economic viability of potential projects and work with communities and partners in the value chain to structure operating models.

 

During the period of ramp up and growth from pilot status to full scale operation we provide end-to-end value chain co-ordination. This addresses the fundamental market failure that smaller scale farmers and supporting projects lack the scale and organization to be able to take their pilot projects and the lessons they have learned to the point where they have sustained revenues and bankable business cases. We fill this gap and in so doing create a pipeline of projects and cases for both development and commercial finance institutions to support.

 

Our own projects, our own risk, our own drive.