GSG Global Leadership Meeting 2024

The GSG Impact Partnership held its annual GSG Global Leadership Meeting in Costa Rica on 18-20 June to address key challenges in impact investing. Discussions emphasised collaboration, transparency, and capital mobilisation to scale global impact goals.

The event was co-hosted by the LatAm National Partners and brought together 90 leaders representing 34 countries.

The Global Leadership Meeting is the key annual gathering of the leaders of the GSG Impact Partnership designed to share experiences - reflecting on what has worked and what can be improved - and create common knowledge to be used globally to drive action.

The discussions centred around three pivotal questions:

At the meeting, the GSG Impact team and National/Strategic Partners facilitated informal discussions, sharing their knowledge and experiences with participants on the following topics:

• Impact Transparency from the Ground Up: GSG Impact Partnership’s contribution to making sustainability disclosures work for all, by the GSG Impact Policy team
• Case study: Government employing impact investing & blended finance fund as a regional development initiative, by Australia NP
• SDG Impact Bonds: Catalysing new pools of capital with different risk profiles & debt capital for Impact, by India NP
• Legal threats and opportunities to the impact investing movement by US NP with GAIL
• Building Impact Wholesalers, by Spain NP and GSG Impact team
• Leveraging Innovative Financial Blended Structures for Social Impact - Case study: Global Social Impact Fund Africa, by Spain NP
• Placed-based impact investing, by UK NP & Turkiye NP
• Systems convening: From fragmentation to convergence for impact, by World Economic Forum and Kenya NP