How can money be used to support transitions rather than individual projects?

​Comment l’argent peut-il financer des transitions plutôt que des projets ?

​🗓 23 June 2026
💻 Online
🌍 A Egregor Community Event

​The global development finance landscape is shifting rapidly.

​As public aid declines and traditional blended finance models face growing criticism, a deeper question is emerging:

​👉 What if the challenge is not a lack of capital, but the way capital is deployed?

​Too often, impact finance still focuses on isolated “bankable” projects rather than the systemic conditions that enable long-term transformation.

​This conversation will explore:

• ​the limits of traditional blended finance approaches,

• ​how systems thinking can reshape impact investing,

• ​what it means to finance leverage points rather than projects,

• ​and the role catalytic capital, foundations and ecosystem builders can play in supporting real transitions.

​Speakers

​Isadora Bigourdan

​Former CEO of Digital Africa, blended & catalytic finance expert, ecosystem builder and strategist working across Europe and Africa on innovative financing structures and systemic transformation.

​Zannatul Ferdous

​Principal Consultant at Agora Global, specialising in systemic approaches to impact investing and helping investors rethink how capital can support ecosystem-wide change.

​Moderation

​Inès d’Haultfoeuille – COO, Egregor

​Format

​🕒 Networking & introduction
🕒 Speakers conversation
🕒 Community Q&A
🕒 Closing reflections & operational takeaways

​About Egregor

​Egregor is a French endowment fund supporting social and environmental innovators through catalytic funding, strategic support and ecosystem-building approaches across Europe and Africa.