Future of Social Investment

Prince Wasajja Jamil

MISSION

• To become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by the year…..

social investment strategy

• invest in the human capital• Human capital policies• differentiate between ‘varieties of social

investment• need to combine social policies with

policies that promote organisationalchange.

• promoting competitiveness and growth, employment and quality of jobs.

The MAJOR QUESTIONS …..

• what kind of new strategies should be implemented to recover stronger growth, more and better jobs and more equality and social cohesion.

How can we handle….

• Deregulated financial markets, mobile global capital, environmental concerns and the threats of climate change are all part of a new context that calls into question past policy paradigms

• The current global economic crisis increasing uncertainties and pressures on governments as well as ordinary people.

• The consequences are difficult to overestimate, urgent to address the social agenda.

Let us ask ourselves

• What have been the successes and failures of the social investment so far?

• Where are the most important policy gaps to be found and how can they be filled?

Solutions?

DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKET• Microfinance moving beyond grant-

funding into offering opportunities for social investors.

• investments that are diverse in terms of social mission, structure and risk-reward profile.

• Innovative new funds from venture philanthropy to mission driven funds seeking market levels of financial return.

And what about Politics?

• credibility and authority with policy-makers across the political spectrum.

Social websites.???

• The available free social websites like; Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Netlog, Myspace, etc can be utilized to formulate a social network & a discussion platform across the spectrum.

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