Overview
| Client | The Nanto Bank, Ltd. Nanto Capital Partners Co., Ltd. Capital Medica Ventures, Inc. |
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| Inquiry | To make impact investments in startups that tackle issues in the Yamato region, we want a comprehensive picture of what the region's issues are and how they connect |
| Project overview | We divided the region's issues into health capital, cultural capital and natural capital, and held workshop discussions for each. Building on the issues raised there, we carried out further research and brought the issues together in a map that links them by cause and effect |
| Period | December 2022 to March 2023 |
About This Project
This issue design map visualises the issues of the Yamato region, centred on Nara Prefecture, together with their causal relationships. It was created by the Yamato Social Impact Investment Limited Partnership (Yamato Social Impact Fund), an impact fund that aims to solve the region's issues. ZUKAI contributed to its creation.
Health capital covers medical care, nursing care and health; cultural capital covers education, crafts, cultural assets, tourism and sport; natural capital covers agriculture, forestry and fisheries. On one sheet you can see where issues such as a shortage of home medical care, a lack of care workers, young workers leaving the prefecture, low spending by tourists and a growing area of unmanaged forest come from, and what they lead to.
The fund uses the map as its first tool for deciding which issues an investee will solve. The Yamato Social Impact Acceleration Program, which began in February 2024, also targets the issues in the three capitals defined by the map.
The map is published in the fund's Impact Report 2023 (January 2024, in Japanese).
Impact Report 2023 (PDF)
https://www.nantobank.co.jp/hojin/keiei/venture/pdf/report2023.pdf
Press release (Japanese)
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000109457.html