GIBEF aims to strengthen impact ecosystems and act as a catalyst to create business opportunities, foster knowledge, and attract investments to scale Social and Impact Enterprises in India, Latin America, and the UK.
GIBEF aims to strengthen impact ecosystems and act as a catalyst to create business opportunities, foster knowledge, and attract investments to scale Social and Impact Enterprises in India, Latin America, and the UK.
OBJECTIVES
EXPLORE
MARKETS
Identify challenges and business opportunities for social and impact enterprises in India, Latin America, and the UK.
PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT
Exchange innovative knowledge and technologies to foster impact business growth.
DRIVE INVESTMENT MOBILISATION
Encourage south-south and triangular cooperation within impact ecosystems.
PROMOTE PARTNERSHIPS
Scale impact solutions through public-private partnerships.
EXPAND BUSINESS NETWORKS
Create alliance opportunities within impact ecosystems across regions.
Explorar mercados
e identificar desafíos y oportunidades comerciales para empresas sociales e de impacto en Índia, América Latina y el Reino Unido.
Promover el desarrollo
de negocios e intercambiar conocimientos y tecnologías innovadoras.
Impulsar la movilización
de inversión para la cooperación sur- sur y triangular dentro de los ecosistemas de impacto.
Promover asociaciones
público-privadas para escalar soluciones de impacto.
Expandir redes comerciales
y oportunidades de alianzas dentro de los ecosistemas de impacto entre regiones.
Why These Regions
India has a highly developed Impact Ecosystem, with over 2 million Social and Triple Impact Enterprises and more than $14 billion in impact investment assets.
Latin America’s Impact Ecosystem is rapidly growing, with over $16 billion in impact investment assets.
In the UK, Social Enterprises contribute 3.4% of GDP, supported by public policies, sustainable procurement initiatives, and access to financing, fostering a highly developed impact ecosystem.
Latin America and India share similar social and environmental challenges. Connecting these three regions offers significant advantages for creating markets and development opportunities focused on sustainable innovation.
This triple connection facilitates strategic alliances, strengthens impact investment mechanisms, and fosters triangular cooperation, as well as the development and dissemination of knowledge and tools for growing these business models.
EKHOS organises GIBEF
EKHOS promotes the development of impact ecosystems and business models for Social and Impact Enterprises. We organise immersion trips to Impact Ecosystems, connecting Latin America with India, provide training on Social and Impact Enterprises, offer workshops for ecosystem actors, and consultancy on enhancing collaboration and strategic alliances. We are founding members of the Impacto Latam Network and partners for Latin America in the international verification for Social Enterprises People and Planet First.
Organising Team
María Virginia Romero
Co-founder EKHOS
She holds a Master’s in Corporate Finance from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, trained in Sustainable Finance at the Institute of Social Banking in Basel, and studied Social Enterprises at the Yunus Centre in Bangladesh. She has traveled extensively in India, studying various Social Enterprise models.
Co-founder of EKHOS, where she promotes the development of impact ecosystems. She was a Board Member and Leader of the Alliance Table of the Impacto Latam Network, aiming to strengthen the LAC region’s impact ecosystem.
Director of EL NÚCLEO, a sustainability training centre. Technical Advisor for the Sustainable Finance team at FIX SCR (an affiliate of Fitch Ratings). She teaches Sustainable Finance in executive programs at public and private universities.
Jessica Oyarbide
Co-founder EKHOS
Promoter of Social Enterprises, Fair Trade, and the Impact Ecosystem for over 10 years. She holds a degree in Advertising from UADE, trained in Social and Inclusive Business at HEC Paris, interned at the Yunus Centre in Bangladesh, and lived in Delhi, India for two years, one of which was spent advising Fair Trade India.
Co-founded EKHOS, where she facilitates the development of impact ecosystems, and founded the branding agency Marcas que Marcan, providing consultancy in branding, marketing, and conscious communication, along with workshops, mentorships, and project development with organizations such as UNHCR, IOM, UN Women, Fairtrade, among others. She creates opportunities and connections between Latin America, India, and the UK to boost the development of Social and Impact Enterprises.
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