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Day 2 of #BilbaoBootcamp2 is a wrap. ๐
Prototypes sharpened. Field lessons shared. 20 countries across four regional roundtables unpacking what works, what invests, and what changes policy.
Tomorrow the pitches begin. One day left. ๐ก
As part of a 2-day visit to Kenya, the President of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Annalena Baerbock, visited a DigiKen-supported digital innovation hub in Nairobi, spotlighting Kenyaโs efforts to build an inclusive digital economy.
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At #BilbaoBootcamp2, UN Special Envoy on Financing Sustainable Development @MMohieldin27 put it simply โ good institutions and good partnerships are what unlock finance. Get those right and the money will follow. ๐ก
The Chocรณ region has long been overlooked. Now it's leading. ๐จ๐ด Hear from Jimmy Garcรญa & @PnudColombia on what integrated financing looks like when it reaches the local level. #BilbaoBootcamp2@onucolombia
From Belgrade to Bilbao. ๐ท๐ธ @UN Resident Coordinator Matilde Mordt joins #BilbaoBootcamp2 to share how Serbia is unlocking integrated financing for the SDGs โ and what it takes to make it work on the ground. @UNSerbia@UN_SDG@Local2030
Investors don't fund good intentions.
They fund credible proposals. At #BilbaoBootcamp2, 20 country teams spent three days making theirs credible โ then stood in a room and defended them.
The questions were hard. The learning was real. The proposals are stronger for it. ๐
One territorial vision. One investment pipeline. One table.
๐ธ๐ณ Senegal's Casamance pitch at #BilbaoBootcamp2 showed investors exactly how fragmented finance gets replaced with a system that works.
"Unlocking the MEXtropolitan Future."
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico's team pitched investors at #BilbaoBootcamp2 on accelerating climate-resilient development in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico.
One of the world's largest urban territories โ making the case for the finance to match.
At #BilbaoBootcamp2, Javier Cortรฉs, Director of @eLankidetza at the Basque Government, made the case for localization by pointing to what only territories can offer โ the place where social, environmental, economic, and cultural dimensions come together as one. ๐๏ธ
Climate-resilient. Subnational. Finance-accelerated.
๐น๐ญ Thailand's Regenerate Thailand proposal pitched investors at #BilbaoBootcamp2 on a local finance model designed to drive sustainable development from the ground up.
๐ฒ๐ท Mauritania pitched investors at #BilbaoBootcamp2 on PROPEL โ a programme targeting the structural gap between livestock production and market value.
The potential is enormous. The infrastructure to unlock it is what's missing.