The United States National Advisory Board on Impact Investing issued a report with 10 recommendations to enhance government collaboration with impact investors for social, economic, and environmental benefits. Key suggestions include streamlining access to development finance, relaxing investment restrictions, and promoting innovative funding strategies. The report aims to mobilize new capital and improve impact measurement standards within the U.S. investment landscape.

1. IMPACT INVESTING:
10 Recommendations

2. The United States National Advisory Board on impact
investing issued a report on strategies for how the
government can partner with impact investors to
unleash new capital, talent, and energy for social,
economic and environmental good.
Here are 10 of the recommendations.

3. #1 Streamline access to development finance.

4. #2 Remove investment restrictions on
USAID’s Development Credit Authority.

5. #3 Loosen regulatory
and legislative
constraints on the US
Overseas Private
Investment Corporation
(OPIC).

6. #4 Experiment with Development
Impact Bonds

7. #5 Increase
guarantees to
mobilize greater
US institutional
capital for impact
investing abroad.

8. #6 Encourage
integrated public-
private grant-
investment capital
funds for global
development.

9. #7
Promote
flexible
funding
within
agencies

10. #8 Replicate
model impact
investing
programs to
stimulate private
investment.

11. #9 Endorse a framework for more robust
impact measurement and standards.

12. #10 Experiment with impact-
oriented procurement

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