Our Focus
Our focus lies on investment opportunities that meet specific impact criteria and make a positive contribution to achieving the SDG.
We see Gaps. We build Bridges. We connect People.
The impact investing company of your choice!
Service
Driving Sustainable Transformation through a range of services
We build bridges between investors and the world of impact investing.
RESEARCH for Debt Finance
Investment network
With our international experience, expertise and extensive network, we are a strong partner for impact investment portfolio managers.
Investment decisions
With many years of practice in impact investing, our research offers investors the basis for transparent investment decisions.
RATING the sustainability of FSPs
SDG Alignment
We assess around 60 indicators with over 120 specific questions for the financial sector, assigning them to the respective UN SDG target. Using this framework, we evaluate our partner’s SDG alignment.
Dialogue and Engagement
We believe in active dialogue and engagement, fostering collaboration and mutual understanding for sustainable development. Understanding our partners’ ground realities is crucial for accurate assessment.
Impact Generating Potential
Our rigorous analysis identifies higher sustainability performance by calibrating an institution’s positive and negative impacts on people and the planet, thus boosting its impact potential.
RISK & ESG Consulting
Sustainability Consulting
We provide consulting services to help clients integrate sustainability risk management effectively within their organisation.
Sustainability Risks
We facilitate organisations to understand and smoothly implement the Guidance Notice on Sustainability Risks.
ESG Risk
We have conducted 150+ plausibility checks on the ESG Ratings provided to listed companies across 30 industries.
Values
Being Agents for Impact means more than just a job to us.
We build bridges between investors and the world of impact investing.
Our goal is to consider sustainability in its opportunities and risks (risk), render impact measurable and comparable (rating), and make financial inclusion structurally and legally viable, as well as appealing to investors (research).
Our goal is to create impact, which is fair, sustainable and responsible. Sustainability plays a decisive role in our corporate decisions.
Together with our partners we pursue positive impact & contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
About us6+Years of experience
37MFIs
15+Countries
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Team
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Testimonials
Those who trust us
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In my opinion, Agents for Impact combines the necessary expertise and passion for sustainability, which is why we have chosen them as partners on our side for plausibility checks of ESG ratings.
We are very pleased to partner with Agents for Impact in facilitating loans to microfinance institutions in emerging and developing countries. In addition to their in-depth knowledge and regional expertise, our fund and thus our clients benefit from the Agents’ authentic sustainability strategy towards achieving the SDGs of the Agenda 2030.
The Management Workshop with the Agents for Impact Rating team was quite interesting and impactful in terms of identifying the scope to bring in more socially and environmentally responsible practices.
Building on our mission of maximizing the financial well-being of every individual and enterprise in remote rural India, we follow a wealth management approach in providing access to a suite of financial services to our customers, through a high customer touch-point model. Pursuing a clear social mission with sustainable growth strategy, we look forward to kick-starting the SDG partnership with AFI to see how well-tuned our mission is to the UN SDGs, in our sustainability rating results.
Building on our mission of maximizing the financial well-being of every individual and enterprise in remote rural India, we follow a wealth management approach in providing access to a suite of financial services to our customers, through a high customer touch-point model. Pursuing a clear social mission with sustainable growth strategy, we look forward to kick-starting the SDG partnership with AFI to see how well-tuned our mission is to the UN SDGs, in our sustainability rating results.
We are very excited to see the outcome of the AFISAR© rating. This is another step towards our mission to maintain and strengthen our sustainability performance in the Indian finance industry also in terms of our sustainability performance.
We see the AFISAR© rating as a great opportunity to strengthen our market position in the Indian finance industry also in terms of our sustainability performance.
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