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.
37 products found
Trends in gender finance in ACP development finance institutions: overview and selected examples
Year: 2022
This study provide a background and research methodology; lays out emerging trends related to gender responsive finance among national DFIs in the ACP region; provides an overview of features of gender strategies and policies of key DFIs. It shows examples of gender-responsive projects and products; and Section 6 highlights key gaps, challenges and support needed to promote gender responsive finance and WEE at the national and sub-regional DFI level.
Author: Tobin, Cathleen; Yacoub, Sally
Finance for an Equitable Recovery
Year: 2022
The Finance for An Equitable Recovery Report is a new World Development Report prepared by the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The report focuses on the interconnected economic risks that households, businesses, financial institutions, and governments around the world face as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
Author: World Bank (2022)
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
Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks
Year: 2021
This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).
The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth, Robyn Oates and Diana Rusu from UN Women. The authors would like to thank the experts who generously contributed their time and expertise to review the report, including Lizabeth Bronder, Marcelo Giugale, Anna Gollub, Esther Illouz, and Daniel Seymour.
Author: AFD and UNWOMEN
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
Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Promoting Sustainable Land Management
Year: 2021
This report aims to develop a set of general guidelines to aid the identification and development of potential IFMs for sustainable land management in agricultural lands in Sri Lanka. It also outlines the process followed by the International Union of Conservation of Nature to identify potential IFMs for the Rehabilitation of Degraded Agricultural Land project in Kandy Badulla and Nuwara Eliya Districts in the Central Highlands Project area.
Author: FAO and IUCN
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
Financing for Development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: Priorities of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to the financing for development global policy agenda
Year: 2021
The effects of the pandemic and the policies implemented in response have increased the liquidity needs of the countries of the region to confront the emergency phase. Within the current context of the pandemic, financing for development agenda faces two interrelated challenges: short-run and medium and long-run challenges.
This report proposes a set of policy actions to address both challenges and then focuses on potential initiatives to build forward better.
Author: NU. CEPAL