SEVILLA, 30 June 2025 – EDFI and GSG Impact welcome attendees to a side event on 1 July for FfD4 attendees to a high-impact side event: ‘𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗠𝗗𝗘𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲’

Held in Room Side Event 4 at the FIBES centre in Seville, the event kicks off at 10:30 a.m. local time for a 1.5-hour session which brings together development finance leaders, institutional investors, regulators, and policymakers to confront persistent barriers to private capital mobilisation in EMDEs. Main themes covered are regulatory bottlenecks, market creation, and data transparency, and ways to boost synergy among development actors and traditional investors.

The event kicks off with remarks by:

• H.E. Mr. Ismael Nabe, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Republic of Guinea,
• Françoise LOMBARD, CEO, Proparco (France),
• Krisztina Tora, Managing Director at GSG Impact shares GSG Impact findings from the paper ‘A New Lens on SME Mobilisation: How to Maximise Private Capital Flows to SMEs – A Guide for DFIs and Their Intermediaries’.

Two panels follow, with the first addressing three key structural barriers: limited market creation/pipeline, regulatory frameworks, data & transparency challenges.

• Ángela Pérez, COFIDES (Spain)
• Roland Siller, DEG (Germany)
• Amma Lartey, Impact Investing Ghana
• Obaid Amrane, Ithmar Capital
  Moderation by Dr. Iliana Olivié, European Think Tanks Group (ETTG)

Panel 2 features ‘lightning talks’ on the challenges around mobilising private capital in regions, such as Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Asia, with:

• Joris Totté, BIO – the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries
• Stéphanie Emond, FinDev Canada
• Matt Robinson, BII
• Fabio Jose Fagundes, IDB Invest
• Ines Rocha, International Finance Corporation
• Moderation by Magnus Ruderaas, Norfund