UNDP Impact Investment & Blended Finance Course

Content Outline:

This hands-on learning experience will deliver practical, actionable and relevant knowledge on how to mobilize private investment for sustainable development and use catalytic financing solutions for creating impact at scale:

- The role of the private sector for achieving the SDGs

- Introduction to impact investing and blended finance

- Different approaches to attracting private capital

- Choosing the right instruments to catalyze private investment

- Pay-for-success instruments

- The role of impact management

- Mis-conceptions and mis-directions

- Case studies: solutions from the field

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

Participants:

Project and program managers in development agencies, public or multilateral organizations and foundations with a focus on international development.

Dates: 17-18 June 2019

Venue: UNDP Egypt premises, 1191 Corniche El-Nil, Boulak, Cairo, Egypt.

Training Fees:

- Early bird: $1299 - deadline is May 30

- Regular price: $1499 - deadline is June 10

Limited seats available

for more information, please refer to:

farida.matta@undp.org

abdelhamid.ezzat@undp.org