Impact Investors Foundation Targets $8bn In Inclusive Capital

Nigeria’s level for unlocking interaction capital, Impact Investors Foundation (IIF), connected Thursday, unveiled Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Roadmap 2025 -2035, thus, targeting mobilisation of $8 cardinal successful inclusive capital.

The GESI Roadmap presents a clear, actionable program with targets specified arsenic mobilising $8 cardinal successful cumulative gender-inclusive capital, the motorboat of 40 inclusive fiscal products for women, youth, and PwDs, 90% integration of Gender Equity and Social Inclusion principles by General Partners, mobilisation of $1.5 cardinal home superior pools, and the enactment of 20 caller argumentation and regulatory instruments, among others.

This decade-of-action blueprint for sex equity and societal inclusion successful Nigeria was launched astatine the 3rd Gender Impact Investment Summit (GIIS), themed, ‘Investing successful Equity: Advancing Gender-Led Solutions for Inclusive Development,’ and held successful Lagos connected Thursday.

The motorboat besides introduced the Nigeria Inclusive Capital Commitment 2035 run to thrust actionable plans towards the GESI roadmap’s ambitious goals.

In collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria, the IIF developed a 10-year strategical roadmap from 2025 to 2035 to embed inclusive concern practices wrong Nigeria’s economy.

The Nigeria Inclusive Capital Commitment 2035 run was introduced to inform, shape, and animate beardown superior mobilisation commitments and enactment for women, youth, and People with Disabilities (PwDs).

Speaking astatine the event, the CEO of the Impact Investors Foundation, Etemore Glover said: “This GESI Roadmap is not conscionable a plan; it’s a blueprint for a important displacement successful Nigeria’s economy. The standard of the targets underscores our profound committedness to a aboriginal wherever nary 1 is near behind. This incredibly breathtaking infinitesimal sets a powerful, decade-long people to democratize superior and alteration our concern scenery for women, youth, and People with Disabilities (PwDs).”

By signing the Nigeria Inclusive Capital Commitment 2035, stakeholders pledged to instrumentality respective cardinal actions: mobilize inclusive superior astatine standard to adjacent sex and inclusion financing gaps; present GESI principles into concern decisions, policies, and fiscal products; fortify organization capacity, pipeline development, and argumentation coherence; and present measurable outcomes that empower women, youth, and PwDs crossed Nigeria.

Similarly, the chair, GSG Nigeria Partner and Vice Chair, GSG Impact, Ibukun Awosika, emphasised the campaign’s significance, adding that, “the GESI roadmap moves america beyond aspiration to accountability, demanding that stakeholders not lone mobilize inclusive superior astatine standard but besides embed GESI principles into each concern determination and policy, thereby enabling the gaps to beryllium closed, unlocking Nigeria’s afloat economical potential, and ensuring our maturation is genuinely equitable and transformative.”

In the aforesaid vein, CEO of 2X Global, Jessica Espinoza delivered a almighty keynote address, stressing the request for intentional action: “Progress is strategic, not accidental, which is wherefore the GESI roadmap is simply a captious blueprint for Nigeria’s future. It’s a captious model for intentionally dismantling fiscal barriers, empowering women, youth, and radical with disabilities, and unlocking the nation’s afloat economical potential.”

The acme besides featured goodwill remarks from renowned speakers, sheet discussions, fireside chats, and presentations from notable figures successful the financial, business, and argumentation sectors.

In a nonstop determination to facilitate real-world investments, the acme arsenic featured a dedicated, in-person woody room. This unsocial level provided a nonstop pipeline for investment-ready, women-led, and women-owned businesses to link with superior providers, including interaction investors, money managers, and improvement concern institutions.

IIF is simply a nonprofit enactment driving interaction investing successful Nigeria. Through cognition sharing, argumentation advocacy, and capableness gathering and research, it unlocks home and planetary superior for high-impact investments. IIF has spearheaded large initiatives, including the constitution of the Nigerian National Advisory Board for Impact Investing (NABII), which secured authorities backing for the $1 cardinal Nigerian Wholesale Impact Investment Fund (WIIF) to concern MSMEs.