From May 23-25, GSG Impact held its annual Leadership Meeting in Turin, Italy, the organisation’s first in-person meeting since the start of COVID-19.
The meeting included more than 140 leaders from over 51 countries who came together to reflect on progress with regard to ecosystem building, co-create solutions to current challenges and priority areas, and identify ways to achieve our vision. The event was generously co-hosted by the Italian GSG National Partner and Torino Social Impact.
Our community continues to grow
Nigeria and Türkiye National Partners became the latest National Partners to join the GSG Impact Partnership.
With GSG Impact's support, our National Partners are collaborating to advance impact investing globally
In 2021, 2/3 of National Partners started a collaboration with peers in other countries in various areas including collaborative research, market sizing harmonisation, SDG solutions, SME finance, and policy engagement. GSG National Partners are also co-designing projects and building funded partnerships, evidenced by an increase in joint grant applications for market building support.
National Partners have been leading the growth of impact investing ecosystems
National Partners all over the world have been increasing their communications capacity and reach, producing knowledge products to support the growth of their national ecosystem, convening and educating key stakeholders, and influencing policy change.
Our Italian partners held a public event welcoming the delegates and presenting challenges and opportunities for the impact movement. High level panel discussions focused on how to harness data and technology for the common good, and develop and scale social innovations.
"Governments have the ability to influence financial markets and should be pushing for transparency. Transparency enables us to make a comparison between the impact of different companies and their profitability."
Sir Ronald Cohen, President of GSG Impact