This session co-organised by The Power of Nutrition, GAIN, Eleanor Crook Foundation, and Palladium Impact Capital, intends to share solutions and mobilize new thinking around the N4G Cross-Cutting theme of "Securing new investment and driving innovation in nutrition financing". It will bring together various organizations, representing different sectors, to pool thinking on structuring innovative financing mechanisms. The session will offer tangible views on how to mobilize new capital at scale, towards revolutionizing nutrition funding and make the sector less dependent on traditional financing flows.
Expected outcomes include:
Greater awareness of the latest thinking, research, and experiences on designing and launching innovative financing mechanisms for development; and their potential for diversifying funding for nutrition
Approaches to overcoming challenges experience by other sectors
Creative recommendations on developing new financing instruments, mechanisms, partnerships for the nutrition sector and financing communities
Roberta Bove, Nutritious Food Financing Program Lead at GAIN, is a speaker and Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director at GAIN, is among the three moderators.
Other speakers include Preeth Gowdar, Director, Palladium Impact Capital and Andy Herscowitz, Chief Development Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)