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Our CEO Joan M. Larrea recently spoke with the Lowy Institute’s Roland Rajah about how blended finance could be an answer to meeting the world’s climate and development goals. Joan shared her insights on what blended finance can realistically achieve, what’s needed to increase its impact, and how it can help in low income and small island developing countries. Listen to the full podcast now: https://bit.ly/49yJPSK #blendedfinance #philanthropy #privateinvestment #developingcountries #climate #developmentfinance #sustainablefinance #sdgs

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This is a compelling article on impact investing from the FT. Thanks for sharing Amit Bouriimpact investing is rapidly expanding, with regions like Sub-Saharan Africa leading planned allocation growth. This creates a compelling opportunity:To truly deliver on impact investing's promise, we need to expand who's making investment decisions. Relevant contextual knowledge, diverse perspectives, and authentic understanding of regions/sectors/industries/realities aren't just nice-to-haves – they're crucial for identifying real opportunities and delivering meaningful impact for people and the planet.The future of impact investing isn't just about where we invest, but who does the investing.#ImpactInvesting #DiversityInFinance #AssetManagement #SustainableFinance Samantha Katz https://lnkd.in/ghny_i8g

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GSFN @Michael Daniel Higgins Ossian Smyth half of the children's death is linked to malnutrition financing for food must be prioritized approaches that can attract innovative investment from the private sector are needed systems lens - entire value chain - finance to all parts of the value chain must be encouraged #cooperatives #smallfarmholders #malavi #zambia all are having challenges for food security subsidiaries must be repurposed to change the unsustainable food production and the supply chain, working with the United Nations

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Gender neutral does not work as the findings from a survey of 114 fintech firms across 17 countries highlights. Intentional design accounting for the needs of women will accelerate financial inclusion. #socialimpact #genderequality #financialinclusion

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Fair outcome, bad COP. 300 billion annually, by the word's richest to those worst impacted by the climate crisis. A vastly insufficient, but definitely positive agreement, in a global meeting fraught with boycotts, petrolobbying and promotion of oil.and gas deals. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #Renewables #BeyondFossilFuels #RestoreNature #CleanEnergy #LivingPlanet

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Co-CEO Rachel Lindley, and Anne Figge [Global Programmes Team] are currently visiting programmes in South Sudan, speaking directly to Savings Group members and our local partners to better understand the challenges members face, and how Savings Groups can empower communities to address these issues. Member Amande said “I went to Khartoum in 2016 when there was conflict here in South Sudan, and returned in 2023 because of the war. We came empty handed but found people here in Savings Groups and started a business. Now it is easier to get food. Before we had to wait for the UN, it was hard, you have to wait a long time. My friends and my group enabled me to reach where I am.” Zola told her story: “I went to Khartoum in 2012. We lived near the military centre where war broke out in April 2023. I was shot. My family put me on a chair on a donkey and we fled to South Sudan via the western border. A month later, I heard my husband had been killed in Sudan and my last born sister too. I was traumatised. The group came and spoke to me, and gave me a loan of 10k though I was not a member. My old house is still here but they bought grass so I could rethatch it. I joined the group and took a loan to start a groundnut business as it is popular, but in Sudan I had a restaurant and it’s my dream to revive it here. I will take a loan and use the share out for that. I have one son still in Sudan. The other children are here with me. The group’s encouragement and support has kept me going. They talk to me when I am lonely and depressed. It’s not just about the money. God is here.” Rachel reflected “I've built a much stronger understanding of the challenges of insecurity, climate change, Gender-Based Violence and inflation from being here, as well as the role Savings Groups play in peacebuilding and supporting refugees and internally displaced people. It's hard to learn these things just from reading reports. You have to be very aware of power dynamics and 'Doing No Harm' when you visit partner programmes, but you cannot aim to decolonise without strong relationships and improved understanding - both of which, paradoxically, need in-person visits." #Climatechange #refugeecrisis #internallydisplacedpeople #southsudan #internationaldevelopment (Pictured: Anne Figge, group members Amande and Zola and Rachel Lindley. Member names changed for privacy)

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Better access to inclusive microfinance in #Chile. IFC announced the signing of a senior loan of US$10 million to Fondo Esperanza to increase its lending portfolio to women-owned micro-enterprises (WME), with a portion specifically targeted to WMEs owned by low-income migrants and refugees in Chile. Manuela Adl, IFC’s Senior Regional Manager, Southern Cone, commented: “Investing in microentrepreneurs is not just about empowering individuals; it's about fueling the engine of innovation, resilience, and economic growth. Through this investment, IFC aims to be a catalyst for community empowerment and sustainable development.” Catalina Valenzuela Béjares, Administration and Finance Manager, Fondo Esperanza, stated that “alliances like this provide us with opportunities to extend our support to entrepreneurs across Chile, with a focus on reaching out to marginalized communities, including migrant women. With this funding, we can further empower them to expand their businesses and enhance their quality of life.” Approximately 49% of Fondo Esperanza's clients live below the poverty line, and 70% of them are located outside of Santiago, where a significant portion of Chile's GDP is concentrated. Fondo Esperanza primarily focuses on empowering women in vulnerable positions, with 79% of its loan portfolio allocated to women. Among these, 45% are considered heads of their families or economically responsible. Learn more: http://wrld.bg/jwEV50RxMEV #AccelerateEquality #IFCGender #FinantialInclusion #Microfinances IFC - International Finance Corporation | IFC Financial Institutions | Alfonso García Mora | Manuel Reyes-Retana | Vittorio Di Bello | Helena De La Torre | Rogerio Santos | Marie-Paule Claes, QRD® | Jose F Etchegoyen | Tomas Lo Prete | Teresa Keller Sarmiento | Mario Pavón Prat | Cristian Villemaine Dinamarca

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"Uncertainty around what is meant by 'nature-positive finance' is stalling banks’ efforts to work on solutions that could halt or reverse nature loss, according to lenders and international organisations." Timely reporting by Anita Hawser at The Banker on the stay-of-play for nature-positive finance! Indeed we need a working definition that helps to bring more private capital online for nature, rewards those who address the drivers of loss and are mainstreaming nature into economic sectors, and can be tracked against national and global biodiversity priorities. With our counterparts at the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation and with the input of many stakeholders, we look forward to sharing a discussion paper in September as an input to deliberations underway at UN Biodiversity COP16 and beyond. Anita de Horde Natacha Boric Romie Goedicke den Hertog Oualid Rokneddine Julen González Redín Sally Wootton Puleng Ndjwili-Potele Dr. Johanna Dichtl Usher, E. Liesel Van Ast Bianca Brasil Johan Lopez Elodie Feller

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The World Bank is changing the way it measures the impact of the projects it supports, introducing a slimmed down series of indicators to be applied across the group’s activities, that will be focused on outcomes rather than inputs, writes Ian Lewis. #impactinvesting #developmentfinance #impactmeasurement https://lnkd.in/eEVvK_eh

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“Finance is the organising algorithm of the economy. It is rational for us as fiduciaries and risk managers to think about the social and environmental impacts of the allocation decisions we’re taking. This is about seeing #finance in service of people and planet." Read more in Portfolio Adviser here ➡ https://lnkd.in/eeqmwZwi #Investing #WorldChangingReturns

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On my impact investing radar: 🌱 Refugee Investment Network is unlocking refugee self-reliance by building the investment ecosystem for refugee-led and supporting ventures. 🤎 Impact potential: Today, more than 80 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide. Humanitarian crises last average of 17 years. Humanitarian aid are simply not enough - not only is there funding gap, it is also missing the opportunity to empower. I remember first hand talking to talented and resilient refugees, waiting indefinitely to be actively bringing value to the community through entrepreneurship. 🌍 This is where RIN comes in to unlock the enormous untapped potential, bridging the gap between refugee investments and capital that spans asset classes and geographies, as well as return and impact expectations. 🌍 Check out their investment opportunity map: https://lnkd.in/dFmXwt7u #impactinvesting #renewablefinancing #refugeeinvestments #empowerment

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Very insightful from our dear Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب... We spent the last two weeks at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan at what was supposed to be The Climate Finance COP, but the United States and the rest of the Global North showed up empty handed with an intentional agenda of delaying, denying, distracting, blaming the victims, and greenwashing economic traps. In the end, COP29 was not about climate, it was about an economic and geopolitical hierarchy that is not supposed to be disturbed. Why? Because real climate action would imply that climate finance is development finance. Real climate action means high quality transformative climate finance in the form of grants (not loans), cancellation of all climate-related debts (not rescheduling), and the sharing/transfer of life saving technologies to allow the Global South the manufacture and deploy the building blocks of climate resilience and adaptation; and that would unleash the full potential of the Global South as an economic powerhouse that is no longer locked at the bottom of the economic and geopolitical hierarchy (as outlined in our Just Transition report). And that potential is perceived by the Global North as a threat to be managed and eliminated, not as an opportunity for development and climate action. Unless the Global South recognizes that we need to create a geopolitical leverage to pressure the historic polluters to act differently, we will continue to lose in every single multilateral space whether it’s about climate, debt, trade, investment, taxation, finance, technology, or peace & security negotiations.

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Agreed! Thanks for sharing Jeff Pilisuk! I sometimes worry that the "have your cake and eat it too" approach to impact investing may be doing more harm than good. Once we get beyond fintech and a few other tech heavy sectors, I question the relevance of VC fund structures for early stage, impact first #socialenterprises.

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The release of the "Rewiring for Success" report provides a dynamic blueprint for integrated and strategic action across government and the corporate and financial sectors, grounded in citizens' priorities.   A collaboration between BRAE, Capitals Coalition, CETEx (Centre for Economic Transition Expertise), ICAEW, Value Balancing Alliance and Rewired Earth, it is part of a work stream that aims to support coherence in the now cacophonous sustainability space. Some key takeaways below and full report available here: https://lnkd.in/decXy4Hx

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What has micro finance got to do with climate finance? They are both about mobilizing finance in pursuit of a societal goal. But when micro finance didn’t work out as planned, the sector put its financial interests first and rewrote the societal goal to fit, resulting in the ‘financialization of poverty’. Are we headed the same way with the financialization of climate change? See my comment article for Responsible Investor, adapted from my research report for Centre for Climate Engagement at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

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The IFC - International Finance Corporation's "Investing for Inclusion: Exploring a Disability Lens - A Guide for Investors" empowers #investors with a step-by-step approach to integrating #disability-inclusive considerations within #investment strategies - throughout the investment process and life cycle. Through this "disability lens," investors can identify organizations poised to capitalize on both #business benefits and social #inclusion opportunities throughout their #ValueChain. Download the guide at https://lnkd.in/eJTUD4Ds Stay tuned for the launch of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network's guide "Putting the I in ESG: Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities as Strategic Imperative of Corporate #ESG Practices and Investors" at the Global Network's annual conference, 27-28 November 2024 https://lnkd.in/e6H4cjP2 #enable2work

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