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
Emerging and Developing Countries: The Noose is Tightening
Year: 2023
The double shock of the health crisis and the war in Ukraine has generated an inflationary spike unprecedented in developed countries since the 1979 oil shock and the Iran-Iraq war. This shock came to interrupt two decades of disinflation imported from China and other emerging and developing countries and more than a decade of ultra-accommodative monetary policies.
Author: Bellefontaine, Sylvain; Castaner, Jane; Jonveaux, Benoît; Joguet, Vincent; Le Goff, Maëlan; Monat,Emmanuelle; Mulliez, Amaury; Salomé, Morgane; Vallée, Floriane; Vigato. Alix
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
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
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
The State of Blended Finance 2020
Year: 2021
This report uses blended finance data and insights compiled by Convergence to provide an updated analysis of the blended finance market, including blended approaches, sectors, regions, and investor trends. It concludes with reflections on the journey to advancing blended finance at scale, exploring key challenges and progress made to date.
Author: Convergence Blending Global Finance
Publisher: Convergence Blending Global Finance
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
Development Finance Institutions: The need for bold actions to invest better
Year: 2021
The report seeks to inform and anchor the discussion by providing the most up-to-date analysis of DFI and MDB investment and the private finance this investment has mobilised in developing countries since 2013. It examines in detail the investment portfolios of 12 DFIs and MDBs which together mobilised more than 70% of the private finance reported to the OECD for 2017–2018.
Author: Samantha Attridge and Matthew Gouett
Publisher: ODI
The Impact of Development Finance Institutions: Rapid Evidence Assessment
Year: 2019
The report informs on issues including: (i) the methodology, including the search criteria to identify relevant evidence and the quality assessment approach; (iii) general findings i.e., the high-level overview of the evidence base and its coverage of the three components of the research question; (iii) the thematic synthesis across five emerging themes; (iv) brief illustration of the research gaps that we have identified through this REA and the potential for further investigations.
Author: Samantha Attridge, Rachael Calleja, Matthew Gouett and Alberto Lemma from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
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)