Category: Announcements

Şafak Müderrisgil, Chair of EYDK and Trustee of GSG Impact held a meeting with Burak Dağlıoğlu, President of the Investment and Finance Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye.

During the meeting, priorities for 2026, strategic directions, and potential areas of collaboration were discussed. Since 2019, the Presidency Investment and Finance Office has played an active role in shaping Türkiye’s impact investing ecosystem supporting the implementation of related policies and practices, and aligning impact investment activities in Türkiye with international investors.

On 4 December 2025, the EYDK V. Members’ Meeting was convened in Istanbul, hosted by Enerjisa Enerji. The meeting provided a valuable platform to review the achievements of the past year and to jointly refine our strategic roadmap for 2026..

The session commenced with opening remarks by Şafak Müderrisgil, EYDK Chair and Ebru Taşçıoğlu, Head of Sustainability and Corporate Capabilities at Enerjisa Enerji.

📌 Gülşah Günay, Head of the Sustainability Standards Department at POA, shared insights on the current state of sustainability reporting in Türkiye and the next steps ahead.

The session continued with:
🔹 Reflections from our Technical Committee members,
🔹 Highlights from the Impact Network Analysis,
🔹 Preparations for EYDK’s 5th anniversary.

The shared message was clear: advancing impact investing requires strong institutional capacity, common standards, and transparency.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all EYDK members for their contributions, and to Enerjisa Enerji for their warm hospitality.

Building on the outcomes of our summer initiatives in the impact investing ecosystem and the insights gained from international gatherings, we came together with our members for the fourth meeting of the year. In this session, we both reflected on the past months and discussed our strategic steps for the upcoming period.

📌 Highlights from the Meeting:

🔹 The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4),
🔹 The 2025 Sustainability Standards Conference,
🔹 Key insights from the Social Outcomes Conference 2025.

➡️ We also introduced a new initiative to our members: the EYDK Network Analysis. Through this work, we aim to make the connections within our ecosystem more visible and strengthen areas of collaboration.

🌍 EYDK continues to lead the development of impact investing in Türkiye while contributing to the transformation of the global financial system.

At our Embassy in London, the members of the GSG Impact Board of Trustees and Şafak Müderrisgil, Chair of EYDK, convened with Ersoy Erkazancı and Enes Güzel, United Kingdom advisors of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Investment and Finance Office, under the auspices of Türkiye’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Osman Koray Ertaş.

The meeting focused on opportunities to strengthen collaboration between Türkiye and the United Kingdom in the fields of impact investing and the impact economy. This dialogue laid an important foundation for joint projects and new partnership opportunities.

Following the very first SDG Impact Standards Training we designed exclusively for a single institution, this time we came together at the “Impact Stories” webinar.

 In this session, we explored:

• Examples of impact and impact investing,
• The roadmap offered by the SDG Impact Standards for institutions,
• New opportunities arising from the Sevilla Commitment and the Global Financing Playbook.

We extend our gratitude to the AON Türkiye team for their pioneering approach to integrating impact into corporate culture.

We were honored to join the Social Outcomes Conference 2025 (SOC25), hosted by Oxford’s Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab). The conference brought together global policymakers, academics, and practitioners to advance outcomes-driven approaches for social change.

Why SOC25 Matters
This year’s theme, “Institutionalising outcomes and impact: partnerships for systemic change,” stressed the need to embed mission-led, outcomes-based approaches into institutions. Leaders from across sectors explored how collaboration can build resilient frameworks that prioritize accountability, prevention, and long-term value. 

EYDK’s Contribution
Ahead of SOC25, we joined the roundtable “Learning from each other: Mapping the evolution and challenges of social outcomes contracts in Europe.” It was an invaluable opportunity to exchange lessons and bring Türkiye’s perspective to this evolving field. 

Our Commitment
At EYDK, we aim to position Türkiye as a regional hub for impact investing. SOC25 deepened our engagement with the global ecosystem and reinforced our resolve to advance outcome-based financing models that create lasting social value.

EYDK Chair and GSG Impact Trustee Şafak Müderrisgil shared her insights at the “Financing the Future: Mobilizing Capital for Inclusive Cleantech Innovation” session held on 1 September 2025, in Istanbul.

The session addressed financing for clean technologies and mobilizing capital for a just transition. The role of impact investing in building a more inclusive financial system for women, youth, and underrepresented communities was at the center of the discussion.