Gender Balance Investment Summit Holds Oct 2

Nigeria’s level for unlocking interaction capital, the Impact Investors Foundation (IIF), has rallied enactment connected sex balancing by hosting the 3rd variation of its Gender Impact Investment Summit (GIIS) connected October 2, 2025, successful Lagos.

The yearly lawsuit serves arsenic a important level wherever stakeholders converge to code systemic barriers that bounds women’s entree to concern and accelerate advancement toward a much inclusive and equitable concern scenery successful the country.

While erstwhile summits focused connected bridging the financing spread and promoting gender-inclusive concern models, this year’s acme volition determination beyond dialog by introducing a broad roadmap with targeted interventions for inclusive superior mobilisation. The 3rd yearly summit, with the taxable ‘Investing successful Equity: Advancing Gender-Led Solutions for Inclusive Development,’ volition people a important turning point, shifting from advocacy to tangible action.

A cardinal lawsuit item volition beryllium unveiling the ground-breaking Gender/Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Roadmap. This strategical model is designed to tackle the systemic barriers faced by businesses led by women, youth, and People with Disabilities (PWDs) successful Nigeria, providing a wide way for assorted actors to follow much inclusive practices.

Reacting to this, the CEO of Impact Investors Foundation, Ms Etemore Glover, stated, “This acme is astir much than conscionable talk; it’s astir action. By shifting our absorption from advocacy to a almighty concern strategy, we’re proving that investing with a sex lens isn’t conscionable astir doing good—it’s astir achieving higher returns.”

A cardinal diagnostic of the acme volition beryllium in-person and virtual woody rooms, which volition supply a nonstop level for investment-ready, women-led, and women-owned businesses to link with superior providers. This unsocial accidental volition facilitate important partnerships and foster real-world investments by connecting entrepreneurs with interaction investors and money managers.

The GIIS welcomes a divers assemblage of stakeholders, including entrepreneurs, fiscal institutions, endeavor enactment organisations, authorities representatives, and the media, each captious to driving meaningful change.