Africa Impact Summit 2025
11th June 2025 | 08:30 GMT+3 | Accra, Ghana
How to Increase Private Sector Investment to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals in Emerging Markets
Published 15 May 2023 | Updated 22 May 2024
On the 15th of May 2024, GSG Impact hosted an online webinar on "Increasing Private Sector Investment to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Emerging Markets."
We were pleased to see that over 333 people attended the webinar from 59 different countries. Participants shared ideas on what more can be done to improve coordination and action among businesses, startups, accelerators, investors, charitable foundations, universities, and policymakers.
This was a must attend session for all those wanting to deepen their understanding of catalytic capital financing models through real world examples.
Presentation Slides and Webinar Recording
Webinar Recording
View the presentation slides, here.
Reserach Publications
To learn more, read the research publications presented and mentioned in our webinar:
- State of Play 2023, The Impact Taskforce
- Time to Accelerate: Capital Mobilisation for the SDGs in Emerging Markets, GSG Impact
- How and why we finance SMEs, British International Investment
- Development Impact Performance Assessment for Financial Intermediary Projects, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Speakers included
- Nick Hurd, Chair, GSG Impact
- Krisztina Tora, Chief Market Development Officer, GSG Impact
- Hamdiya Ismaila, Managing Director, Ci-Gaba Fund of Funds / Founding board member, Impact Investing Ghana
- Drew Von Glahn, Executive Director, The Collaborative For Frontier Finance (CFF)
- Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen, Vice President of the Office of Development Policy, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
- Matt Robinson, Head of Private Capital Mobilisation, British International Investment (BII)
- José Luis Curbelo, Chairman and CEO, COFIDES
- Wennie Waeijen, Business Development Officer, FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank
The session served as the formal kick-off meeting for the GSG-DFI co-led working group on capital mobilisation for SMEs in emerging markets. The aim of the working group is to increase the quality and quantity of private capital invested for the SDGs and a Just Transition in emerging markets.
The webinar was held in partnership with Argidius Foundation and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
