IIBF partners and program focus
Together with our program partners Roots of Impact, the Competence Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of St. Gallen (CCSP-HSG) and Convergence, we run an actionable, practice-driven executive program that has received excellent feedback to date. More than 200 IIBF Alumni have been part of this program since 2018, with 99.9% rating the program «excellent» or «very good».
The program equips decision-makers deploying catalytic capital with the latest insights and innovations to navigate a rapidly changing world and choose the most effective instruments to achieve their impact agendas. IIBF covers the full spectrum of blended finance archetypes and mechanisms, and expands to related approaches such as impact investing, incentive design, and impact-linked finance. It also conveys a thorough understanding of the key drivers and motivations of all stakeholders in blended and innovative finance transactions, and enables effective collaboration for stronger impact.
Participants will explore what it takes to decide, design, and implement successful blended and innovative finance projects and understand what experienced practitioners have learned from both successes and mistakes in various regions and impact sectors such as climate, agriculture, healthcare, gender, and energy transition. Specifically, IIBF will focus on how to empower high-potential enterprises as key drivers for impact on the ground.
IIBF alumni and history
IIBF has attracted more than 200 participants across the globe to date, e.g., from organisations such as UNDP, SDC/DEZA, GIZ, Global Affairs Canada, IFC, SECO, FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, Shell Foundation, Temasek Foundation, Hilton Foundation, Aqua for All, Danish Red Cross, SOS Children’s Villages International, Fundacion Chile, and Refugee Investment Network.
IIBF typically runs as an open program (application-based) at its home in Switzerland. The original concept of the program was built on 50 in-house trainings designed and delivered by our program partner, Roots of Impact. In addition, the extensive academic and practical expertise of program partners Convergence and the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) (now: Competence Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of St. Gallen) has shaped what IIBF is today.
