Impact investing, as defined by the World Economic Forum, is a strategic approach to investment that purposefully strives to generate both financial returns and actively measured positive social or environmental impacts. To address the challenges in transitioning towards a greener, fairer, and more inclusive development model, we must increasingly embrace this form of public-private collaboration. It necessitates the need for private sector support, which involves two main tasks: mobilizing more private resources and aligning investments better with agreed-upon goals. These tasks form the cornerstone of impact investment, harmonizing with the Global Gateway Investment Agenda. This event is designed to inform and foster discussions around the available tools and methodologies that can unlock and support private sector investments towards transformative change in LAC countries, cities, regions, industries, and value chains. The focus will be on how we can effectively utilize these processes.
