• Event

Global Public Investment: A better way to finance the SDGs

This event unpacks a critical issue for sustainable development today: the potential of Global Public Investment to reshape the architecture of aid and ensure all contribute, all decide and all benefit.

  • 8 April 2022
  • 13:00–14:00 BST | 14:00–15:00 CEST | 15:00–16:00 EAT
  • This online event is an official side event of the Skoll World Forum

Many approaches to global cooperation leave less economically developed countries reliant on the goodwill of more developed ones. Global Public Investment (GPI) is a new approach that aims to diversify decision-making and create mutual responsibility for how international public finance for sustainable development is mobilised and allocated.

The speakers discussed the potential for GPI to bring countries together in a partnership geared towards global public goods:

Questions our speakers discussed during the session include:

  • Could GPI replace the current aid architecture, or should it be developed to help address specific issues such as global public health or climate change?
  • What could the role of national governments, the private sector and civil society be within the GPI system?
  • What could accountability measures in the GPI system look like?

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