The SDG investments are a new generation of impact and social investment strategies, designed to attract private investments towards the SDGs while ensuring financial returns for investors.

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, said the Accra SDG Impact Investment Fair is a market place that brings together policy makers, businesses, innovators, and private investors with the aim of driving change at scale.

"We want to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact while ensuring financial returns for social investments in Ghana,” he stated.  A statement copied to Ghana news agency stated that, the Accra SDGs Investment Fair is also to provide a platform for connecting Ghanaian and African SDG related businesses with investors, exploring opportunities for private sector collaboration in government pipeline projects, and identifying new innovative and smart solutions to solve, developmental issues at all scales.

It will also kick-start entrepreneurial initiatives, especially among the youth and women and providing a platform for multi-stakeholder resource mobilisation.

The Accra SDGs Investment Fair aims at starting the process of developing a systematic, green and inclusive economy by identifying the financial gaps that act as a barrier to the efficient realization of the SDGs.

Mr Ken Ofori-Atta said “It is our belief that by unleashing the triple powers of public policies, impact capital and social entrepreneurship, our socio-economic challenges will be largely resolved and this we hope, will enable us to consolidate significant gains for present and future generations.”