Filling The SDG Funding Gap With Blended Finance | SkollWF 2019

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, private financing and access to blended finance is not only critical but required; the public and social sector simply cannot reach the SDGs on their own. How big is the SDG financing gap, and did we set ourselves up for failure? Funders and implementing organizations on the ground will have a candid discussion about current trends of what’s working, what’s on the horizon, and where we need to improve.

Alix-Ines Lebec, WaterEquity
Jim Polan, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Kola Masha, Babban Gona
Robert Annibale, Citigroup, Inc.
Samuel Choritz, United Nations Capital Development Fund

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