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.
8 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
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
Public Banks + Public Water = SDG 6?
Year: 2020
The paper reviews the available literature on financing water and sanitation services, arguing that existing sources of investment – private water companies, private banks and official development finance – are simply not happening at the scale or pace required and are unlikely to do so in the near future.
Author: David A. McDonalds, Thomas Marois, Susan Spronk
Publisher: Water Alternatives
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)
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