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.
12 products found
Scaling Private Sector Climate Finance in the MENA Region
Year: 2022
The global effort to fight climate change as well as the need to adapt and build resilience to the changing climate (climate adaptation) pose a set of challenges and opportunities for financial institutions in the MENA region. UNEPFI underwent a consultation process with member banks in the MENA region regarding climate finance in general and opportunities to provide support in scaling private sector finance for climate action in the region.
Author: Gigov, Anton
¿Cómo acelerar la innovación verde en América Latina y el Caribe y por dónde empezar?
Year: 2023
El presente documento publicado por el BID vislumbra algunos lineamientos para el diseño de instrumentos de política para impulsar la innovación verde en la región. A pesar de su gran potencial en fomentar un nuevo modelo donde crecimiento económico y generación de empleo sean compatibles con la sostenibilidad del sistema natural, varios factores internos como externos a las empresas, han limitado su difusión en el tejido empresarial de la región.
Author: Grazzi, Matteo; Radaelli, Vanderléia; Henriquez, Pauline; Pufal, Nathalia; López, Sandra
Air Pollution and Climate Change From Co-Benefits to Coherent Policies
Year: 2022
This report brings much-needed realism to the climate and air pollution debate. It analyzes international experience to identify effective pathways to coherent policy packages that harness synergies and manage inevitable tensions between climate mitigation and air-quality management. It helps decision makers to prioritize pollutants and emission sources and implement regulations that will encourage economic actors to implement technical and behavioral measures in a way that quickly saves people's lives.
Author: Grzegorz, Peszko; Markus, Amann; Yewande, Awe; Gary, Kleiman; Tamer, Samah Rabie
Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries: Aggregate trends updated with 2019 Data
Year: 2021
This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. This analysis focuses on the use of climate finance for wider catalysation of overall financing for climate finance in developing countries. The report identifies eight sets of levels to drive. Climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policies, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology transfer, carbon markets, and climate intelligence.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD
Leveraging National Development Banks To Enhance Financing For Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure
Year: 2021
The policy brief sets the context to explore how National Development Banks (NDBs) can be leveraged to finance climate smart urban infrastructure, and builds its main findings and recommendations on the main conclusions from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (the Alliance). The policy brief on Enhancing the Role of National Development Banks in Supporting Climate-Smart Urban Infrastructure is commissioned by FELICITY and developed in partnership with the Alliance.
Author: IFCL and Climate Policy Initiative/Alliance Secretariat
Green, Sustainability, and Social Bonds for COVID-19 Recovery: A thematic Bonds Primer
Year: 2021
This primer explains how theme bonds can help finance coronavirus disease (COVID-19) recovery programs and projects while catering to specific targets such as environmental sustainability, infrastructure development, and social protection. In Asia and the Pacific, investment demand for green, social, and sustainability bonds is increasing. This primer discusses the progress of theme bonds in recent years and shows how demand has gained traction as governments reallocate their budgets to address economic, social, and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author: Anouj Mehta, Raquel Tabanao, Nicole Afable, Karthik Iyer, Sean Crowley, and Marina López Andrich (ADB Team)
Transformative Climate Finance: A new approach for climate finance to achieve low-carbon resilient development in developing countries
Year: 2020
This report analyses options to make international public climate finance more transformative. This analysis focuses on the use of climate finance for wider catalysation of overall financing for climate finance in developing countries. The report identifies eight sets of levels to drive. Climate action: project-based investments, financial sector reform, fiscal policies, sectoral policies, trade policy, innovation and technology transfer, carbon markets, and climate intelligence.
Author: World Bank Group
Publisher: World Bank Group
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)
Roles and future Challenges of Development Financial Institutions
Year: 2017
This document served as a basis for the presentation of ALIDE in the Global Symposium of Institutions Development Finance: "Balance sustainable development and social Financial Institutions of Development in the New World ", held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 19 to 20 September 2017. It discusses the role and future challenges of development financing institutions (DFIs) and the areas that stood out in general terms, which the DFIs’ actions would be targeted in the coming years, including (i) Financial inclusion and digital banking.; (ii) Economic and social infrastructure.; (iii) Technological innovation and development.; and (iv) The environment and climate change.
Author: Latin America Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE)
Sustainable Financing for Forest and landscape restoration – the Role of Public Policy Makers
Year: 2015
Public policy makers from developed and developing countries, at all levels (national, regional, local), have the opportunity to take leadership as FLR financing champions. Even without controlling private capital, they can support resource mobilization in a number of ways. This publication shares the experiences of some initiatives from around the world which public policy makers can learn from and adapt.
Author: FAO
Publisher: FAO