CCICC-LaVie Global Limited is a strategic advisory, development and investment firm that combines the best of private sector strategy skills and rigorous analytical capabilities with deep knowledge and global networks including across emerging and frontier markets. We work collaboratively across the public, private and philanthropic sectors to fuel inclusive growth and help clients achieve their goals.
Our global perspectives are firmly rooted in local realities. By combining local knowledge and international experience, our strategies blend the best global ideas and innovations with the local practicalities and the investment partnerships needed for effective implementation.
At CCICC-LaVie, we celebrate entrepreneurialism and difference in all its forms. This means having common values to guide us. Our shared values represent who we are and who we want to be. They help bring us together to create breakthroughs and achieve the amazing.
Foster cooperation and collaboration between Chinese and Zambian and other indigenous African businesses, governments, and organizations through varoious channels and activities
Promote investment, trade, and economic development initiatives between China and Zambia that may include actors from Zambia’s surrounding African nation neighbors.
Provide the expertise and perspectives that can assist China and Zambian and other African entities to forge balanced, impactful and sustainable relationships.
Support the implementation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) agreements and initiatives
Organizing business-to-business matchmaking events and conferences to facilitate trade and investment between Chinese and African companies
Providing training and capacity-building programs for African entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Conducting research on the economic situation in Africa and identifying areas of cooperation between China and Africa.
Advocating for policies and regulations that support Chinese-African economic cooperation.
Overall, CCICC-LaVIE is playing an important role in promoting economic development between China and Zambia and its connected economies by providing a platform for knowledge transfer, partnering, strategic cooperation, investment, and capacity-building initiatives across all of the following industries, sectors and services with several capabilities
Supporting cooperatives in gaining the access to smart/precision agriculture, organic seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and farming infrastructure including irrigation, green energy transportation and value add system that are necessary to secure strategic value chain positions that result in both increasing income for farmers, as well as helping to create food security in the regions where our cooperative and/or businesses are located
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Any cooperative or company that contributes to improving an economy in ways that also improves the skills, knowledge, access to resources, as well as the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people, Including youth, women and refugees.
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Improving access to the inputs that Cooperatives and other businesses need, in ways that create the capacity and logistics for them to become part of their sector’s value chain whether through CSR programming or differentiated value delivery.
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Facilitating access to productive resources including AI associated technologies, and machinery including 3D printers, robots, lasers, rolling stock, industrial, commercial, hospitality facilities needed in host a business. Developing clean energy generation, battery storage and micro-grid development, as well as lighting, cooling and security infrastructure and controls solutions
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Developing clean energy generation, battery storage and micro-grid development, as well as lighting, cooling and security infrastructure and controls solutions
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The mission of CCICC-LaVIE is to generate positive and measurable social impacts, which distinguishes our impact investing from typical pure profit driven investment strategies. From this distinction arises the challenge of measuring, managing and reporting the impact CCICC-LaVIE generates for which we use Stage of Project / Program Action Balanced Score Card Audit Metrics
CCICC-LaVIE’s investment criteria are defined by each project / program impact strategy which respond to the overall objective of profitably with resilience and sustainability improving the livelihoods of vulnerable people. Generating an attractive economic return for CCICC-LaVIE and its collaborator investors is critical but we accomplish these profitable returns in the context of integrating social impacts into all phases of project and program cycles:
Strategic planning and design of an CCICC-LaVIE investment
Establishment of impact objective based on impact plan estimation
Resource capitalization and acquisition
Investment evaluation and triage where necessary
Investment implementation and monitoring
Benefiting from several years of experience.
We facilitate resource support for sustainable business models that generate a direct and measurable positive impact on the most vulnerable people, including Chiefdom peoples in Zambia and across the connected border nations’ region with Zambia serving as CCICC-LaVIE’s hub. CCICC-LaVIE is also focused on creating attractive and sustainable financial level returns for our collaborators and investors.
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ongoing programming and it project engagements have a special focus on the economic empowerment and integration of vulnerable groups into major economic activities and value chains in Zambia and across its borders to its neighboring countries.
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CCICC-LaVIE is led by a team of indigenous Zambians and global resource persons who have on average more than 30 years’ experience across a spectrum of economic activities including infrastructure and commercial development, heavy industry, energy and power, technology, investments, management and social impact philanthropy, that in addition is supported by an advisory board drawn from CCICC-LaVIE members in China, the USA and EU, as well as Zambia and surrounding nation representatives.
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We are associated with high impact, national and regional economic and human capital programs and projects that are transformational to supply chains and the economic and social condition of Zambian and other communities across the region. CCICC-LaVIE seamlessly brings together the financial, business operations, knowledge, technology and social impact expertise, as well as both barter and direct funding to acquire the resources necessary to expedite CCICC-LaVIE’s development, trade and industry endeavors that always create significant social impacts.
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