London, England – June 26, 2025 – GSG Impact, a global leader in creating the infrastructure and incentives for capital to flow toward impact investing, announced today that its collective recommendations, which were developed in partnership with over 50 organisations, including all the GSG National Partners, across 45 countries, have been reflected in the draft outcomes document, known as the “Compromiso de Sevilla.” This is part of the upcoming Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), to be held in Seville, Spain, from June 30 to July 3, 2025.

Recognising FFD4 as a once-in-a-decade opportunity to reshape the development finance architecture ahead of the 2030 SDG deadline, GSG Impact led a coordinated and consensus-focused advocacy effort across stakeholder groups, and especially emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). As a trusted convener and catalyst for action, GSG Impact is developing a track record of influencing global policy processes with G7, G20 and now with FFD4. 

Through the input paper, “Mobilising Capital for Sustainable Development,” GSG Impact and its global coalition advanced a bold agenda to unlock capital at scale for sustainable development. The paper was formally submitted to the UN process in October 2024 and endorsed by stakeholders, including national platforms, development finance institutions, and strategic partners.

Key Recommendations Include:

• Support and Invest in Domestic Initiatives: The input seeks to prioritise grants for market development, capacity building, and technical assistance, deploy concessional capital to early-stage businesses and local impact funds, and design innovative financial products tailored to high-need geographies while reducing regulatory barriers to investment. To complement this, GSG Impact is launching at FFD4 an SME Finance report that seeks to strengthen secondary mobilisation, specifically at the domestic level. 

• Expand De-Risking Tools: The paper highlights the recommendation to establish catalytic capital facilities and increase the availability of partial guarantees, first-loss capital, and subsidised financing. Further, it aims to promote local currency solutions and improve transparency and effectiveness of de-risking mechanisms through robust financial and impact metrics. It seeks to engage credit rating agencies to enhance the ratings of structured vehicles.

• Foster Greater Impact Transparency: Input further seeks to advance sustainability disclosures that reflect wellbeing and impact, incorporating diverse stakeholder perspectives, including SMEs and actors in EMDEs.

Driving Change Through Coalition-Building

GSG Impact’s advocacy strategy included bilateral engagements with foreign ministries and hosting coalition calls, a side event with EDFI (the Association of European DFIs) at the Finance in Common Summit in South Africa, and over 25 bilateral meetings to align messaging and support policy integration.

The engagement has yielded tangible results: the first draft of the FFD4 outcomes document included nearly all of GSG Impact’s initial recommendations. By the fourth draft of the “Compromiso de Sevilla,” all recommendations were either fully or partially reflected, demonstrating the coalition’s influence. Despite withdrawals from the process, these recommendations remain, and we are committed to working with all stakeholders to put them in action with scale and pace.