GSG Impact

New Year, New Career Opportunities 💼🚀 GSG Impact is growing our team to drive greater impact globally. Join us in shaping the future of impact economies by applying for one of our available positions. ￬ 🔎 Knowledge Manager Lead our network’s knowledge management, capacity-building initiatives, impact evaluation processes and community engagement ✍️ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dNY3gEQ3  ⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2025 📢 Head of Communications Take charge of our communications and marketing efforts, amplifying GSG Impact’s mission and voice worldwide. ✍️ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dAyP7pyb  ⏰ Deadline: 12 Jan 2025 💼 Senior Manager - Investible Vehicles Lead GSG Impact's efforts to expand and strengthen our National Partners' capacity to mobilise capital and launch investible vehicles for impactful investments. ✍️ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/d8aJwTpm  ⏰ Deadline: 15 Jan 2025 🎯 Senior Consultant, Capital Mobilisation, Knowledge and Advocacy ✍️ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dHy7cca7 ⏰ Deadline: 19 Jan 2025 Please share these opportunities within your network. #ImpactCareers #JoinOurTeam #Jobs2025 #Hiring

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As we close out 2024, 🙌🏽 we share highlights of our progress in building impact economies across the globe: 🌍 This year, we welcomed Kenya, Cambodia, Switzerland, & Luxembourg as new National Partners (NPs), enabling us to build impact economies in more countries 🚀. The GSG Impact Partnership is a unique & growing group of GSG National Partners currently representing 45 countries. We now cover 2/3 of the global population. 🌐 Half of our NPs are in #emergingmarkets, with many more in development. GSG Impact & our National Partners work together as the #GSGImpact Partnership. 🚀Defining Moments: ✨ Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen joined as GSG Impact’s CEO ➡ https://lnkd.in/diJcQbpq 🫱🏼🫲🏽 The GSG Impact Leadership Meeting was held for the first time in Latin America in June, hosted by Plataforma de Inversión de Impacto Centroamericana (PiiC) with leaders from over 40 countries ➡ https://lnkd.in/dmCePHHN 🇧🇷 #G20 for Impact Initiative: GSG Impact contributed with three policy briefs that informed the initiative’s recommendations to the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) ➡ https://lnkd.in/d-3yiQ5C ✨ Africa Impact Summit: In Nairobi, the Africa Impact Investing Group united our five African NPs and 15+Taskforces to scale impact, mobilise funding, & more. Join us at the Africa Impact Summit 2025 in Ghana, 11-12 June 2025 📍 https://lnkd.in/dWwEumH4 📚 Must-read resources: 1️⃣Challenges in scaling outcomes partnerships in government & strategies for success ▸ https://lnkd.in/dSemMa-a 2️⃣ Wholesale Impact Investors: with $3B+ managed globally, what can we learn to scale impact? ▸https://lnkd.in/dSWw97EX 3️⃣ Transparency From the Ground Up Challenges & opportunities in emerging markets demand greater #impacttransparency ▸https://lnkd.in/dkun9XKp 4️⃣Building an evidence base for impact investing ▸https://lnkd.in/dYM9t7a7 We're taking a break from social media for the holidays, but will be back with more impactful initiatives in 2025!🌟 Aliança pelo Impacto IMPACTO COLOMBIA Impact Investing Ghana Impact Investing Kenya Alianza por la Inversión de Impacto México [AIIMx] *GSG National Partner Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative Impact Investors Foundation IIF Aliados de Impacto-NAB Perú Impact Investing SA SpainNAB Swiss Sustainable Finance Zambian National Advisory Board for Impact Investment (NABII) VIVA Idea GSG NAB Chile - Inversión de Impacto

🎉 Welcome to the GSG Impact Partnership: Luxembourg and Switzerland! The Swiss Platform for Impact Investing (SPII) and the Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative (LSFI) are our newest National Partners (NPs), expanding our influence in more countries to build impact economies. 🌐 Our global partnership 🫱🏼🫲🏽 allows us to connect global to local & generate📈 value from the flow of information & ideas across 45 countries, of which 50% are Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs). 🇱🇺 Luxembourg The Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative, under the guidance of its Impact Investing Advisory Board (IIAB), will work closely with leaders from business, finance, government, and the nonprofit sector to build a robust impact ecosystem in Luxembourg and beyond. Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d6pH_bqi 🇨🇭 Switzerland  The Swiss Platform for Impact Investing established by Swiss Sustainable Finance was launched at Building Bridges last week. The Platform aims to engage the Swiss ecosystem, act as an expert voice, create clarity and transparency, and increase flows of capital toward impact investing. Learn more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d5Ai2Vr2 Read the full press releases ⬇️ Luxembourg: Nicoletta Centofanti, Gunter Fischer, Lorenzo Avico, Francois Passant I Guillaume Bonnel, Arnaud Gillin, Hedda Pahlson-Moller, Kaspar Wansleben, FCA, Laura Foschi, Stephan Peters, Juana Ramirez Switzerland: Rosa Sangiorgio, David Albertani, Julia Balandina Jaquier Guillaume Bonnel, Katja Brunner, Dr. Katharina Sommerrock, Lucy von Sturmer, Lucy Thomas, CFA, Nadia Nikolova, Christine Sete (Lewis), Natalia S., Safeya Zeitoun, Tommaso Tabet, Ingo Weber #GSGImpact #impactinvesting

At the 🚀 First-Ever G20 Social Summit, Sebastián Welisiejko participated in the fourth and final plenary of the G20 for Impact initiative. 🌐 During the session, Sebastian discussed how outcomes-based partnerships can unlock private capital to address complex social challenges. He emphasised the opportunity for governments 🏛️ to transition from traditional input-based spending to a model that prioritises measurable results, thereby mobilising funding through public-private partnerships. Examples 💡 around the world of successful outcomes-based partnerships include cases such as Colombia’s Empleando Futuro, the first Social Impact Bond in the country 🇨🇴, promoting job placement 💼👷♂️ and employment of vulnerable communities. The event was a milestone, representing the culmination of a journey that began with Brazil’s G20 presidency and the launch of the G20 for Impact Initiative. Throughout this process, GSG Impact contributed ✋🏽 with three policy briefs 📚 that informed the initiative’s recommendations to the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG): 1️⃣ Outcomes-based partnerships as a proven model for public-private collaboration to mobilise private capital for high-impact areas in support of a Just Transition 2️⃣ Unlocking private capital through MDBs and DFIs by leveraging their potential to scale impact finance 3️⃣ Developing sustainability disclosure standards to enhance impact transparency in a comprehensive and inclusive way While Brazil’s presidency concludes, the work to accelerate impact economies continues. We are committed to supporting 🫱🏽🫲🏻 the G20 for Impact Initiative under 🇿🇦 South Africa’s G20 presidency in 2025 (G20 South Africa), led by Yogavelli Nambiar, Luvuyo Rani, and Solange Rosa, PhD. Special thanks 🙏 to Marcel Fukayama, Monica Pasqualin, and partner organisations like the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll, B Lab, and Preta Hub (FEIRA PRETA®️) for their leadership and dedication to this shared mission. Read the G20 for Impact’s recommendations to the SFWG ⬇️ #ImpactEconomy #G20 #SocialImpact #g20brasil

The $4.2 trillion question: How can we bridge the global SDG financing gap❓ 💡In the recent input paper for the United Nations 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), GSG Impact and 50 organisations from 45 countries outline ways to unlock capital for the SDGs: 🔸Mobilise local capital: empower locally-led initiatives to build resilient financial ecosystems in emerging markets. 🔸Scale blended finance: use tools like guarantees and concessional loans to attract private capital to high-impact sectors. 🔸Expand policy support: de-risk investments and prioritise inclusive market-building efforts. The FfD4 will take place in Seville, Spain | 30 June - 3 July 2025 📅 Read more about the GSG Impact's proposal to the UN in the interview by Karolina Adamkiewicz with Krisztina Tora at Impact-Investor.com 👉 https://lnkd.in/ef2bm-M6 Read the full paper ⬇️ #capitalmobilisation #SMEs #emergingmarkets #sdgs Acknowledgements: 2X Global Jessica Espinoza African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) Frank Aswani AVPN Naina Subberwal Batra Tristan Ace B Lab Sistema B Marcel Fukayama Collaborative for Frontier Finance Drew von Glahn Gila Norich International Foundation For Valuing Impacts (IFVI) Rob Zochowski Impact Europe Roberta Bosurgi Alessia Gianoncelli Latimpacto María Carolina Suarez Visbal Publish What You Fund Gary Forster Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Alejandro Alvarez von Gustedt Social Value International Ben Carpenter FCDO IMPACT Programme Katherine Stodulka Jesse Hoffman David Kuijper Harry Devonshire Nicholas Colloff OBE

🚨 For over a decade, outcomes partnerships have been used by governments to deliver higher quality public services while improving value for money 💸. How can they be adopted at scale? Outcomes-based partnerships, where funding is tied to the achievement of measurable results rather than activity, have been proven to deliver up to 9x the cost in public value 💡. Despite this evidence, their adoption by governments has been limited. For example, approximately 300 Social Impact Bonds worth $760m have been issued globally. This is dwarfed by the now $1tn impact investment market. This new report, produced in collaboration with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, identifies and addresses three main barriers  🚧 to the widespread adoption of Outcomes partnerships: 🏛️ Institutional challenges - formal governmental procedures and policymaking practices 🗳️ Political challenges – in particular, churn in both legislators, policymakers, and government agency leadership 🤔 Perception challenges – where tackling social issues is perceived as the preserve of governments and not suited to market based solutions The authors suggest three key recommendations for market builders: 1️⃣ Focus on the system change and policy innovation that outcomes partnerships can deliver 2️⃣ Advocate and design solutions adapted to local conditions, aligned with political priorities 3️⃣ Promote ecosystem readiness by building capacity among political leaders and civil servants Read the report ⬇️ #ImpactInvesting #OutcomesPartnerships #SocialImpact #ImpactEconomy María Emilia Cerra, Uriel Basualdo Franchino, Sebastián Welisiejko, Santiago Sueiro, Mila Lukic

Top 3 SDGs addressed by European impact investors are: 1️⃣ Decent Work and Economic Growth 2️⃣ Climate Action 3️⃣ Reduced Inequalities SDG 8, 📈 Decent Work and Economic Growth, is targeted by 47% of investors SDG 13, 🌱 Climate Action, is targeted by 47% of investors SDG 10, ⚖️ Reduced Inequalities, is targeted by 38% of investors Decent Work and Economic Growth continues to hold the top position compared to 2022, with Climate Action moving to second place, overtaking Reduced Inequalities. The shift 🔀 highlights the increasing commitment among impact investors to boost their allocations to climate solutions, with a focus on mitigating climate change and decarbonising their investment portfolios. The report shows that typically Northern European investors prioritise 🎯environmental impact, while their counterparts in Southern Europe look more at social issues. 📢 Key calls to action, developed by GSG Impact’s Raffaella De Felice and Impact Europe’s Alessia Gianoncelli & Gianluca Gaggiotti, include: ❶ Impact investors should embrace their new role as market influencers. ❷ Mainstream, responsible, and sustainable investors should integrate impact investing into their ESG strategies. ❸ Policymakers should build on the current evidence to scale the market.  ❹ Market builders should push for a complete harmonisation at European level and for global action. 💡 Highlight: Expanding Social Outcomes Contracts (SOCs) could unlock systemic solutions by mobilising diverse actors and aligning resources for maximum impact.   Read Calls to Action from the Size of European Impact Market report ⬇️ Acknowledgement: Impact Europe, GSG Impact, Hellenic Impact Investing Network, Impact Finance Belgium, Impact Investing Institute, Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing, Social Impact Agenda per l'Italia - GSG Impact Partner, SpainNAB, FAIR - Label Finansol, Etki Yatırımı Danışma Kurulu "EYDK" - Impact Investing Advisory Board, Türkiye NAB, maze impact, Esade, Politecnico di Milano, Invest for Impact Denmark

📢 New tools to strengthen Impact Management The Impact Management Platform has launched two new reviews to help clarify the use of sustainability topics and industry classifications in the context of impact management. 💡These reviews are designed to: 🔹inform the future evolution of sustainability related standards, frameworks and resources 🔹help market actors understand, act on and communicate their impacts on people and the natural environment GSG Impact has also renewed its commitment to Phase II of the Platform’s work. This contributes to the Platform’s ongoing mission to cultivate an ecosystem of sustainability-related standards, frameworks and guidance that enables businesses, investors and financial institutions to manage their impacts on people and the natural environment - a requirement for achieving the #SDGs. 👉 Find out more about the new resources and Phase II of the Platform here: https://lnkd.in/duhubgQw #ImpactManagement #SustainableDevelopment