In 2022, EVPA embarked on a journey to design a “Transformative Finance Lab” (TFL) to co-create new financing solutions for systems change. Find out more through our interview series with experts and managers of similar innovation and co-creation initiatives to learn from existing their experience.
Interview partner: Dominic Hofstetter, Space building Lead at TransCap Initiative
The TransCap Initiative is a collaborative space for developing, demonstrating, and scaling systemic investing in the places that matter most for human prosperity—such as cities, landscapes, and coastal zones—as well as in value chains and other real-economy systems. The initiative apply systems thinking, human-centred design, and the principles of mission-driven innovation to explore how financial capital can catalyse the transformation of systems in service of a low-carbon, climate-resilient, just, and inclusive future. Their mission involves developing a knowledge and innovation base, testing novel concepts and approaches, and building a community of practice. In each of the systems TransCap works with challenge owners, communities, innovators, investors, and other stakeholders to design, structure, and finance strategic investment portfolios nested within a broader systems intervention approach. As such, TransCap assembles diverse actors including the private, public, academic and philanthropic sectors to explore how financial capital can foster system transformation.
