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A more inclusive, equitable,
and environmentally responsible
economic system.
An impact economy is where all investment, business, consumption, and government decisions are taken with impact at its core. The transition to impact economies is crucial to address urgent global challenges.
The scale of the world’s problems has changed – and so too must our response.
New levels of public-private cooperation and a commitment by all to positive impact will be required to achieve a future where no one lives in poverty and the planet thrives.
The last decade has seen governments around the world seeking to catalyse impact investing in pursuit of more effective policy outcomes and sustainable, inclusive economies.
A thriving impact economy depends upon five important pillars driving impact: demand for capital, supply of capital, intermediaries, ecosystem enablers and government.
Government as a catalyst for impact through its roles as regulator, market builder and direct participant.
Demand for impact capital. Businesses and entrepreneurs that provide impact solutions and have financing needs to carry out those solutions.
Supply of impact capital. Actors that provide funding, directly or indirectly, to impact businesses. These include institutional investors such as pension funds, banks, and philanthropies.
Intermediaries: Enabling the exchange of impact capital between the supply and demand side. These include private equity funds and public stock exchanges.
Ecosystem enablers: Facilitating the impact economy, without necessarily providing capital. These range from financial advisors to academic institutions to networks.
To navigate the complexity of achieving a future where no one lives in poverty and the planet thrives, we need a simple unifying principle: that it is the role of all actors in society to examine how their actions affect the public and the planet.
Each country has individual opportunities and realities with significant differences in relevant laws, practice, culture, and in the relative roles of the state, business and social sector organisations in dealing with societal and environmental problems. This affects the nature and form of the ecosystem for impact investment.
Our community of National Partners play a critical role in galvanising the global impact investment movement. They are the catalysts and advocates for their national impact economy.
The SDG-Driven Tech Innovation Ecosystems project is a practice-based international consortium collaborating to create dedicated pathways to scale innovative, tech-based solutions to the SDGs.
Explore the Roadmap for Interconnected SDG-Driven Tech Innovation Ecosystems to learn how to build and expand SDG-driven tech ecosystems through cross-sector collaboration.
This practice paper is inspired by the learnings of a two-year project carried out in partnership with GSG Impact. The paper shares reflections and lessons from a collaborative venture between our National Partners in Colombia, Nigeria, Ghana, and Peru alongside their local think tank partners within their respective country contexts.
The 2024 Africa Impact Summit will bring together over 500 international delegates and thought leaders, providing both promising and established impact practitioners, fund managers, asset owners and institutional investors with an opportunity to disseminate their work, share ideas and interact with innovators, entrepreneurs, project promoters, multilateral institutions, foundations and policymakers in Africa.
15 May, 2024
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