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.
13 products found
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
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
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
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
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2020
Year: 2020
The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance. It brings together a wide range of expertise and perspectives, putting forward a set of policy recommendations to mobilize financing flows, and align them with economic, social and environmental priorities. The recommendations outlined in the report should assist Member States and all other stakeholders as they work toward fully implementing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and achieve the SDGs.
Author: United Nations (Inter-agency task force on Financing for Development)
Publisher: United Nations
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
Critical Aspects Of Development Finance In The Framework Of The 2030 Agenda
Year: 2020
This document gives a detailed account of the principal ideas and results of two roundtables of Chief Economists of Latin American and Caribbean Development Banks and the Conference of Development Technicians and Experts. Issues like climate change and risk management; sustainable infrastructure and territorial development; economy 4.0 and digitalization in the banking sector, and financial inclusion and impact measurement were discussed in both roundtables.
Author: Latin America Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE)
Financing for Sustainable Development Report
Year: 2019
The 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report, the fourth report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance, four years after the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Prepared by more than 60 UN agencies, programmes and offices and other relevant international organizations, the report brings together a wide range of expertise and perspectives.
Author: United Nations (Inter-agency task force on Financing for Development)
Publisher: United Nations
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