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A shout out to all the local capital providers and investors at CFF's Annual Convening in Cape Town last week. As we come up for air, we are reflecting on the breadth of conversation and depth of relationships. Together we made important steps towards a more robust small business finance ecosystem. We will be digging into some of the emerging ideas in the coming months 💡 Unique value proposition of LCPs - deep local networks, actual risk assessment, first formal financings, governance support and built pipeline of investible opportunities for follow on funders. We need a robust collective narrative and systematic evidence collection on theory of change? 🌅 Modernising fund economics - pioneering models that enable private funds to deploy ticket sizes of <$1million without becoming unwieldy. This includes alternative fee models, accelerator programmes, open ended structures, syndicating deals, sharing back office etc. We need to re-evaluate where fund sustainability or break even lies in specific local contexts. 🔗 Continuum of capital - LPs are coordinating with each other and moving to fill capital gaps including operational support, warehousing options and anchor investment in emerging managers. We need to support rapid development of a variety of local capital providers from which will emerge replicable investment models for small business finance. Thanks to the content committee for helping to put programme together Olivier Furdelle, Sewu-Steve Tawia, Sam NDONGA, MBA, Shiluba Mawela CA (SA), Tamara Abdel-Jaber along with our partners, Carri Munn and Elsa Henderson. Thank you to the outgoing network steering committee for your hard work this year Nalin Agarwal, Maya Burney, Evelyne DIOH SIMPA, Olivier Furdelle, Sam NDONGA, MBA, Dmitry Fotiyev and Wiem Abdeljaouad Bernet. And welcome to our new steering committee who will be taking the network into 2024 Sam NDONGA, MBA, Shiluba Mawela CA (SA), Sewu-Steve Tawia, Tamara Abdel-Jaber, Pauline Koelbl, Colin Hundermark and Thiaba CAMARA SY.