Accra to Host Maiden SDGs Impact Investment Fair

The Ministry of Finance and the Ghana Investment Promotions Centre, with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advisory Unit at the Presidency, would organise the first Accra SDGs Impact Investment Fair on Wednesday, December 5.

It seeks to attract private investments towards achieving the Goals.

The SDGs investments are a new generation of impact and social investment strategies, designed to attract private investments towards the SDGs while ensuring financial returns for investors.

A statement copied to Ghana News Agency, in Accra, stated that the Investment Fair would also serve as platform for connecting Ghanaian and African SDGs-related businesses with investors, while exploring opportunities for private sector collaboration in government pipeline projects.

It aims at starting the process of developing a systematic, green and inclusive economy by identifying the financial gaps that act as a barrier to the efficient realisation of the SDGs.

It would also help to identify innovative and smart solutions to solve developmental issues at all scales, kick-start entrepreneurial initiatives, especially among the youth and women, and provide a platform for multi-stakeholder resource mobilisation.

It quoted Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, as saying the Accra Fair would be a market place that would bring together policy makers, businesses, innovators, and private investors with the aim of driving change at scale.

“We want to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact while ensuring financial returns for social investments in Ghana,” he stated.

Mr Ofori-Atta said, “It is our belief that by unleashing the triple powers of public policies, impact capital and social entrepreneurship, our socio-economic challenges will be largely resolved and this we hope, will enable us to consolidate significant gains for present and future generations.”