Impact Investing & Blended Finance

Designed for professionals in development agencies, multilateral organizations, and foundations, this intensive three-day training equips you with the tools to strategically mobilize public and private capital to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Learn how to design and apply blended finance approaches and how to use finance for measurable social and environmental impact and international development.

Areas of exploration:

The private sector’s role in achieving the SDGs
Introduction to impact investing and blended finance
Results-Based and Impact-Linked Finance Instruments
Approaches to attracting private capital
The role of cutting-edge impact management

The program is organized by the Initiative for Blended Finance, with the program partners Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, Convergence, and Roots of Impact.

The training is offered upon request and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your organization. Reach out to explore how it can be adapted to your team’s needs.

Who is this program designed for?

The program is explicitly shaped towards providers of concessional capital such as project and program managers in development agencies, public or multilateral organizations, and foundations, with a focus on international development. IIBF is a practice-driven 3-day course that is designed for participants who strive to maximize the impact of their grants or investments, master the basics of Blended Finance and to be on top of the latest developments and discussions. All with the aim of effectively crowd-in private capital to finance the Sustainable Development Goals.

What are the learning outcomes of the course?

This hands-on learning experience will deliver practical, actionable and relevant knowledge on how to mobilize private investment for sustainable development and create impact at scale. Topics covered include:

    - The role of the private sector for achieving the SDGs - case studies and best practices
  - Introduction to impact investing and blended finance
  - Different approaches to attracting private capital
  - Choosing the right instrument to catalyze private investment
  - Impact-linked finance and pay-for-success instruments
  - The role of impact management
  - Mis-conceptions and mis-directions in blended & impact finance
  - Live cases: impact, blended and innovative finance solutions from the field

What will I get with this training program?

You will meet and learn from top speakers from OECD, Roots of Impact, University of Zurich, Convergence, Harvard University, Social Value UK, UBS, leading impact funds and social entrepreneurs.

Network with your peers from across the globe, most of whom are project- and program managers in development agencies, public or multilateral organizations and foundations with a focus on international development.

Overall, participants will:

- Understand the huge potential of the private sector – both companies and investors– to contribute to international development, as well as recognize the key contribution of small and growing businesses

- See impact investment and private sector resources as a promising source of capital to be integrated into public and philanthropic strategies

- Identify new ways of capacity building, catalytic capital and funding mechanisms to scale high-impact enterprises.

- Overcome market failures and structural challenges by blending different types of capital more effectively

- Gain a deeper understanding of impact, alignment of interest and additionality to design the right incentives and the optimal mix of capital sources

- Inspire colleagues and peers with state-of-the art tools and best practices