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.
5 products found
Digital inclusion in Caribbean digital transformation frameworks and initiatives
Year: 2023
This study evaluates the extent to which digital inclusion is considered in Caribbean digital transformation frameworks. Digital inclusion considers the ways in which digital divides are created as the digital transformation of society progresses, and how societal inequalities affect and are affected by digital technologies. As such, digital inclusion is a lens through which the effects of the digital transformation can be assessed.
Author: Dale, Alexander; Døhl Diouf, Lika; Kwesi, Prescod
Digitalization in the Extractive Sector: A Comparative Analysis of the Andean Region
Year: 2022
Global efforts to achieve the climate goals specified in the Paris Agreement pose major challenges for the global production system, because demand for clean fuels, metals, and minerals will increase considerably in the coming decades. This trend is the main driver for extractive companies transformations of their production systems to maintain their profitability and operability in the face of an increasingly stringent context in economic, environmental, and social terms.
Author: Rentería Palomares, Zaira; Gutiérrez García, Jorge; Perdomo Rodríguez, Daniel
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)
Better Finance Better World: Consultative paper of the Blended Finance Taskforce
Year: 2018
The Blended Finance Taskforce was launched in 2017 as an initiative of the Business & Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC). It was set up to look at how “blended finance”
– the use of development funds to mobilize additional private finance for investment in the UN
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – can be deployed more effectively.
Author: Business & Sustainable Development Commission (Blended Finance Taskforce)
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)