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
IACPM paper on Bank interaction with DFI’s for the mobilisation of private capital for the SDG’s
Year: 2021
In the context of Development Finance Institutions’ (DFIs) efforts to mobilise private sector capital in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, this document explore the progress to date from the perspective of private sector banks and focus, among others, on how banks choose to align their operations with the SDGs and the nature of the relationship that banks have with DFIs.
Author: Christopher A. McHugh, University of Southampton
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
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
Financing Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role and Perspectives of Multilateral Development Banks
Year: 2019
The paper briefly describes the MDBs creation and financial model. Also, it analyzes the evolution of the mandates of MDBs across decades, as well as focuses on the description of the major MDBs in LAC. It further presents a perspective of MDBs' outstanding, commitments and disbursements to the region in the past 25 years. Based on these recent trends, the role and outlook of MDBs in financing development in the region are discussed.
Author: Raquel Artecona Marcelo Bisogno and Pablo Fleiss
Financing for Development: Progress and Prospects 2018
Year: 2018
The report begins its assessment of progress with an analysis of the global macroeconomic context, which sets the economic framework for implementation efforts. It explores financing for the five SDGs under in-depth review at the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable production and consumption patterns, and terrestrial ecosystems.
Author: United Nations (Inter-agency task force on Financing for Development)
Publisher: United Nations