About GSG Impact JAPAN National Partner｜GSG Impact JAPAN National Partner

GSG Impact JAPAN

MISSION

Impact at the heart of every decision

to accelerate progress to meaningful impact transparency and a transformative shift of resources delivering positive impact on the SDGs and climate goals.

About GSG Impact JAPAN National Partner

The GSG Impact is a global network, with 33 nations plus the EU as members, which aims at promoting impact investing in partnership with financial institutions, governments, international organizations, businesses, and other entities around the world.

GSG Impact JAPAN National Partner was established in 2014 as GSG Impact’s national advisory board in Japan. It contributes to the development of the market and ecosystem for impact investing in collaboration with practitioners and experts in diverse fields, including financial, business, social, and academic institutions. GSG Impact JAPAN National Partner’s activities revolve around three pillars of: research and publication, awareness-raising, and networking.

Key Milestones

July 2014

The G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce National Advisory Board was established. Later, the name was changed to The Japan National Advisory Board, the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG-NAB Japan) to align with the name change of GSG Headquarters.

Participants in the first meeting of the National Advisory Board meeting
September 2014

Published its first report “Impact Investment: The Invisible Heart of Markets.”
The launch of report was accompanied with the first symposium titled, “Frontiers of Financial Innovation to Solve Social Issues.”
May 2015

Invited Sir Ronald Cohen at GSG to hold a two-day symposium “Social Impact Investment Symposium.”
June 2015

Published the “Proposal for the Expansion of Impact Investing 2015” which outlines the measures to promote social impact investment in Japan
June 2016

Published “Manual for Social Impact Measurement” and “Social Impact Measurement Tool Sets by Sector.”
September 2016

Published the first “Current State of Social Impact Investment in Japan.” Since then, GSG-NAB Japan annually publishes this report to introduce current state of impact investing in Japan.

“Current State of Social Impact Investment in Japan,” the first report published in 2016
February 2018

Held “Social Impact Investment Forum 2018”
July 2018

Launched the G20 Working Group to promote advocacy activities at the G20 Osaka Summit in 2019.

Members of the G20 Working Group.
The initiatives of the working group resulted in reference to impact investing and innovative financing mechanisms in the leaders’ declaration and the speech by the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the G20 Osaka Summit.
May 2019

Published a proposal that identifies issues that need to be addressed by capital markets and outlines recommendations for solutions. The report was based on the activities by the Social Equity Finance Working Group (currently the Social Measurement Study Working Group) of GSG-NAB Japan.
September 2019

Held “Social Impact Investment Forum 2019 Post-G20: Potential of Innovative Finance for Achieving the SDGs”

More than 250 people participated in the Social Impact Investment Forum 2019
April 2020

Published “Proposal for the Expansion of Impact Investing 2019”
June 2020

Held “Impact Investing Roundtable” together with the Financial Services Agency of Japan

＊ As of August, 2020

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