Private Finance for Sustainable Development Conference: The Impact Imperative - OECD

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                                                                 Private Finance for
                                                              Sustainable Development
                                                                     Conference:
                                                               The Impact Imperative
                                                                      17- 18 January 2019
                                                                              OECD
                                                             Development Co-operation Directorate
                                                               46, quai Alphonse le Gallo, 92100
                                                                  Boulogne-Billancourt, France

What will be the focus of the second edition of the PF4SD Conference in 2019?

The key theme for the week will be the “impact imperative”, with a focus on the growing necessity for public and
private players to tie sustainable development finance with measurable results. Achieving the SDGs will require more
effective and efficient ways to address economic, social and environmental challenges as well as deeper engagement
between the public and private sectors. In parallel, there is an increasing mandate for evidence on the impact of
investment. The goal of the conference is to bring together policy makers, practitioners from the public and private
sector, researchers and other experts engaged in delivering impact.

Building on recent work by the OECD on Social Impact Investing, Blended Finance, Green Finance, and on The Global
Partnership For Effective Development Co-operation’s (GPEDC) evidence on effective private sector engagement
through development co-operation, the events during the PF4SD week aim to deliver insights into emerging trends in
development finance and efforts to better measure, monitor and evaluate impact.

The OECD will also launch its new global Social Impact Investing report, Social Impact Investment: the impact
imperative for sustainable development at the PF4SD Conference.

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                                 Thursday 17th January 2019
14.00-15.00   Welcome and Launch of the OECD report “Social Impact Investment: The
              Impact Imperative for sustainable development”

              Speakers:

              Opening remarks
               Masamichi Kono, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

              Official launch of the OECD report “Social Impact Investment: The Impact Imperative for
              sustainable development”
               Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD

              Introductory Speech: Global movement towards mainstreaming impact
                 Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman of the Global Impact Investment Steering Group

              Q&A on Social Impact Investment
               Royston Braganza, Chief Executive Officer, Grameen Capital
               Aart de Geus, Chairman Executive Board, Bertelsmann Stiftung
               Elliot Harris, UN Assistant Secretary-General Chief Economist, Department of
                Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
               Judith Karl, Executive Secretary, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

              Official Opening of the PF4SD Conference

              Opening Key Note Speech
               Emmanuel Faber, Chief Executive Officer, Danone

              Announcement of the Call for Action
               Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, OECD

15.00-16.30   Plenary Panel: WHY is demonstrating impact imperative to advancing
              financing for sustainable development?

              Against the backdrop of the growing interest in sustainable finance and increasing
              alignment of private sector actors with the SDGs framework, the ability to deliver not just
              financial returns but also social, environmental and economic outcomes has become
              imperative. Why is this so critical and how has it shifted the traditional debate about risk
              and return?

              This session will build upon the experience and evidence that has been developed through
              the development finance, green finance and impact investment communities as well as

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              the work of the OECD and other international actors in these areas. Our objective is also
              to show that all three of the different development finance approaches (blended finance,
              green finance and social impact investments) have been created with a dual purpose: both
              to mobilise actors and create impact in their respective focus areas.

              The panel discussion will focus on why the impact imperative is more important now than
              ever before and why it should have a central place on the international agenda. Seminal
              research pieces such as the OECD Global Outlook on Financing for Sustainable
              Development and the newly released Social Impact Investing report will provide further
              evidence for the discussions.

              Moderator: Haje Schütte, Head of Division, Financing for Sustainable Development, OECD

              Speakers:

                 Nathalie Jaubert, Deputy Head of CSR, BNP Paribas
                 Kathryn Kaufman, Managing Director for Global Women’s Issues, Overseas Private
                  Investment Corporation (OPIC)
                 Vineet Rai, Co-founder and Chairman, Aavishkaar - Intellecap
                 Philippe Valahu, Chief Executive Officer, Private Infrastructure and Development
                  Group (PIDG)

16.30-17.00   Coffee Break
17.00-18.00   Learning from Practice: Breakouts - HOW to catalyse concrete steps
              towards integrating impact in financing for sustainable development?

              The Sustainable Development Goals highlight the imperative to reach key targets and
              achieve greater impact in addressing global challenges. How can the development
              community ensure that financing for sustainable development is reaching the intended
              targets and outcomes?

              How can we leverage the experience and learning to date from the green financing
              community, the development finance community and the impact investment community
              to meet the increasing mandate for evidence on the impact of investment?

              There will be three breakout groups, each focusing on different aspects of taking the
              impact imperative forward:

                 Principles: What are the core principles of the impact imperative? Who should develop
                  and adopt them? How can they be “enforced”?

                 Frameworks and standards: How can the numerous approaches to impact
                  measurement be coordinated to further advance the practice of impact measurement
                  and management? What types of frameworks and standards would further advance

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    the impact imperative and what type of processes would be most effective in
    developing them?

   Platforms: How can existing platforms be better linked to unlock the abundance of
    knowledge and data being collected and shared? How can technology be leveraged to
    create greater interoperability?

The discussion will be informed by the work of the OECD Social Impact Investment
Initiative.

Break-out 1: Principles

Moderator: Paul Horrocks, Senior Policy Analyst, Blended Finance, Development Co-
operation Directorate, OECD

Speakers:

   François de Borchgrave, Founder and Managing Director, Kois Invest
   Chris Clubb, Managing Director, Convergence
   Neil Gregory, Head of Thought Leadership, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
   Giselle Leung, Managing Director, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
   Julia Prescot, Partner and Chief Strategy Officer, Meridiam

Break-out 2: Frameworks and standards

Moderator: Karen Wilson, Senior Policy Analyst, Social Impact Investments, Development
Co-operation Directorate, OECD

Speakers:

   Rosemary Addis, Chair of Impact Investment Australia and GSG Board Member
   Robert G. Eccles, Visiting Professor, Saïd Business School, Oxford University
   Alex MacGillivray, Director, Evaluations, CDC Group
   Tim Mohin, Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
   Susan de Witt, Outcomes-Based contracting lead, Bertha Centre, Graduate School of
    Business in Cape Town

Break-out 3: Platforms

Moderator: Olivier Cattaneo, Senior Policy Analyst, Development Co-operation
Directorate, OECD

Speakers:

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                Ibrahima Dit Thierno Lo, Principal, M&E Specialist, Islamic Corporation for the
                 Development of the Private Sector (ICD) Islamic Development Bank Group
                Rob Mosbacher, Co-Chair, Consensus for Development Reform; former President
                 and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
                Duncan Onyango, Team Leader and Investment Lead at Sustainable Urban Economic
                 Development Programme (SUED)
                Guido Schmidt-Traub, Executive Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions
                 Network

18.00 –20.00 Cocktail Reception

                                      End of First Day

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                                   Friday 18th January 2019
9.00-9.30    Opening remarks and report-backs from break-out sessions the previous
             day

             Key Note Speech
              Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD

             Opening remarks

                Sahar Nasr, Minister of Investment and International Cooperation in Egypt (G77)
                Bertrand Badré, Chief Executive Officer, Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital

             Report-back from the breakout sessions
              Adva Saldinger, Associate Editor, Devex

9.30-11.00   Plenary Panel: WHAT role can policy play to instil impact as a core principle
             of financing for sustainable development?

             What has been done to date to advance the impact imperative at the national and
             international political levels and what role can policy play in further advancing this agenda?
             How can impact be brought to the G7 and G20 agendas as well as more strongly embedded
             in the Financing for Development (FfD) process? What policies have been put in place at a
             national level and what have been the lessons learned to date?

             High level policy makers from OECD and partner countries will share their experiences and
             views on the role of impact in financing for sustainable development. The discussion will
             address the principles and policies needed for ensuring impact along all its dimensions
             (economic, social, environmental) and examine and assess other building blocks that are
             needed to develop the impact imperative in the development finance community. The
             panel will also address how to leverage the policy learnings to date across the blended
             finance, green finance and impact investment communites to move the impact agenda
             forward.

             Moderator: Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute

             Speakers:

                Elissa Golberg, Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategic Policy, Global Affairs, Canada
                Brigit Helms, Vice President, Technical Services, DAI
                Jean-Michel Severino, Chief Executive Officer, Investisseurs & Partenaires
                Khaled Sherif, Vice-President, Regional Development, Integration and Business
                 Delivery, African Development Bank
                Mohammad Noman Siddiqui, Manager of the Public Private Partnerships Divisions,
                 Islamic Development Bank

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                   Admassu Tadesse, President and Chief Executive,The Trade and Development Bank
                    Group
                   Sibry Tapsoba, Director of the Transition States Coordination Office, African
                    Development Bank

 11.00-11.30    Coffee Break
 11.30-13.00    Way forward: Plenary Panel – WHO needs to be engaged to mainstream
                the impact imperative?

                Moderator: Nancy Lee, Senior Policy Fellow, Centre for Global Development (CGD)

                Speakers:

                   Sabine Döbeli, Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Sustainable Finance
                   Olav Kjørven, Chief Strategic Officer, EAT Foundation
                   Michael Schneider, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Econext
                   Frank Welvaert, Vice President, Global Strategy, Global Community Impact,
                    Johnson & Johnson

                Experts will share their views on the discussions from the conference and propose some
                next steps needed to embed the impact imperative in private finance for sustainable
                development. The outcomes of the conference will feed into the OECD-wide project
                focused on impact measurement as well as the ongoing work of relevant OECD
                Directorates.

                Closing Key Note Speech
                Alfredo Moreno, Minister of Social Development from Chile

                Closing remarks
                Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD

                                         End of Conference

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