Knowledge Hub
The World Federation of Development Financing Institution’s Knowledge Hub (WFDFI_KH) is an online portal that clusters knowledge and resources on development financing across all development intervention areas. It is a free-for all web space where development financing practitioners and enthusiasts could access existing and compelling knowledge products from a wide range of institutions, with diverse structure and procedures, engaged in supporting and promoting development finance and its crosscutting issues in advancing policies, processes, programs, projects and practices for the benefits of their beneficiaries and stakeholders. The two-fold purposes of the WFDFI_KH are shaping and advancing policy and advocacy positions that impact the development of the banking and finance community worldwide and improve DFI capacity, as well as facilitating knowledge management and sharing.
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The role of National Public Development Banks in Financing the Water and Sanitation SDG 6 the Water related goals of the Paris Agreement and Biodiversity Protection
Year: 2021
This report is a global assessment of national public development banks’ (PDBs) involvement in the water sector in its broadest sense. It was commissioned by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in the context of the Finance in Common Initiative, which seeks to enhance PDBs’ role in financing countries’ commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
Author: Finance in Common
Publisher: Finance in Common
Aligning Development Finance with Nature’s Needs: The role of government shareholders of development banks
Year: 2021
Public Development Bank (PDB) encompasses a range of institutions with government shareholding, including multilateral, bilateral, national, and sub-national development banks. This paper analyses the duties of governments in relation to nature and the supervision Public Development Banks (PDBs). It also appraises the powers available to government shareholders to direct PDB management: to improve risk management practices related to nature dependency; and, to reduce impact on nature.
Author: Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
Publisher: Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
Aligning Development Finance with Nature’s Needs: Estimating the nature-related risks of development bank investments
Year: 2021
This paper is an updated and expanded version of the one released in November 2020 ahead of the inaugural Finance in Common Summit. It aims at demonstrating that Public Development Banks (PDBs) can and should perform a stress test of the nature-related risks and impacts on their balance sheets nowadays. Read more here…
Author: Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
Publisher: Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
Financing the 2030 Agenda: An SDG alignment framework for Public Development Banks
Year: 2021
Public finance can play a critical role in work towards the SDGs and in alignment of finance with the SDGs. This report makes three main contributions to that effort: (i) Providing a common conceptual basis for alignment with the SDGs for the PDB community; (ii) Sharing practical ways, tools and processes to implement such alignment and make it operational through all decision levels; and (iii) Laying the groundwork for future in-depth discussions and alliances among stakeholders interested in SDG alignment and financing for sustainable development.
Author: Finance for Biodiversity Initiative
Publisher: European think Tanks Group
Development baking and support to SMEs during the Covid-19 Crisis
Year: 2020
In as much as micro, small and medium enterprises account for 99.5% of the businesses in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and 60% of the formal jobs in the production sector, they should be extremely important to the governments and for the public policies that need implementing, particularly in the current context of the crisis unleashed by COVID-19 that threatens the very survival of a large number of the SMEs.
Author: Romy Calderon and Javier Carbajal, ALIDE
Green Finance: Best practices in Development Banks
Year: 2019
The document presents 12 best practices that were recognized with the Latin America Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE) Awards between 2010 and 2019. One case outlined in this paper is the “Financing the Mitigation of Climate Change practice in Colombia”. Its goal is to reduce the vulnerability of the population and their life styles before possible events produced by climatic change, to finance new and reconstruction projects for the attention and prevention of disasters in infrastructure, to support projects to reduce GGE, to foster efficient, clean and innovative practices in projects, minimizing impacts to the environments and the community, promoting sector approaches for climatic change mitigation. Download the document to get to know more about the other best practices.
Author: Latin America Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE)
The Role of Development Banks in the Financing of Public-Private Partnerships
Year: 2019
This technical document has been prepared based on the presentations made and results of the meeting on “The Role of Development Banks in the Financing of Public-Private Partnerships,” held in Madrid, Spain on May 20, 2019 as part of the Forty-ninth Regular Meeting of the ALIDE General Assembly. The PPP meeting was sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Author: ALIDE General Secretariat Economic Studies and Information Program