Social and environmental impact investing
SECO and the SDC, together with private partners, launched the Sustainable Development Goal Impact Finance Initiative in 2021. This initiative aims to raise CHF 100 million from public and philanthropic actors by 2030. These funds should then attract up to CHF 1 billion of private capital to finance work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries.
"Sustainable impact investing in developing countries is an integral goal of Switzerland's economic development cooperation." State Secretary and SECO Director Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch launched the initiative on 1 December 2021 at the Building Bridges event in Geneva.
Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, SECO Director
The initiative supports innovative financial solutions for new impact investing products through grants and start-up funding. In addition, it improves the framework conditions for impact investing in Switzerland and promotes work to improve the quality of impact measurement.
Impact investing means making investments that, in addition to generating a financial ROI, have a measurable social and environmental impact. Impact investing is still a niche in the global and Swiss financial sector, but it has grown strongly here too in recent years. Today, Switzerland is a world leader in impact investing, with one third of all such investments managed here.
The funding gap to meet the SDGs by 2030 is estimated at more than USD 2.5 trillion per year. To close this gap, private sector investment in developing countries must increase. Public and philanthropic funds can attract such funding, which would otherwise not flow to developing countries.
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Social and environmental impact investing
