FiCS 2025: EDFI co-host with GSG Impact event in Cape Town
Meaningful dialogue and innovation sharing during session aimed at helping attain SDGs.
Power of partnerships: Unlocking private capital for SMEs and the potential of The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)
When: Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 3 pm-8 pm local time.
Where: Southern Sun The Cullinan, Cape Town, South Africa
This session will explore the critical role of partnerships in mobilizing private capital to address the financing gap for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). Bringing together global development finance leaders, private investors, and policymakers, the discussion will center on actionable strategies to strengthen SMEs’ access to finance.
Participants will also collaborate on advocacy priorities to influence the outcomes of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) and discuss next steps to translate principles into impactful action.
The session aims to foster meaningful dialogue, share innovative solutions, and align diverse stakeholder efforts to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Register here.
EDFI at FiCS 2025
The Association of European Development Finance Institutions will be in Cape Town this week to share how EDFIs form a bridge to help boost market creation and mobilising capital to address a shortfall in bankable investment prospects and a widening SDG financing gap.
Finance in Common Summit brings the development finance community in full force to South Africa where the EDFI community will take part in two other side events:
‘Team Europe in Action for Sustainable Growth and Market Creation’ on Thursday, 27 February from 17:30 to 19:00 with partners FMO – Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, JEFIC, European Investment Bank (EIB) and Practitioners’ Network for European Development Cooperation.
EDFI CEO David Kuijper will also speak on Friday, 28 Feb from 12:15 to 13:45 at special session ‘Unlocking Public Development Banks’ Potential for an Ambitious FfD4 Outcome” hosted by the Finance in Common Secretariat. Heartfelt thanks to Rémy Rioux, Boitumelo Mosako and Jin Liqun for their visionary leadership and for co-hosting Finance in Common FiCS as a global effort to unite the entire development finance community. Their dedication to mobilising the private sector at scale will bring us all together under one umbrella in this crucial and timely gathering.
EDFI Secretariat colleagues at FiCS: David Kuijper, Alina Orrico, Katrin Lueke
European DFIs on site include: Proparco, FMO – Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, British International Investment, Norfund, and CDP Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.
