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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.

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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

24 de January de 2022

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.

Aligning Development Finance with Nature’s Needs: The role of government shareholders of development banks

Banks Finance Management Publications Risk

24 de January de 2022

Public Development Bank (PDB) encompasses a range of institutions with government shareholding, including multilateral, bilateral, national, and sub-national development banks. These banks have public policy-oriented mandates (as opposed to commercial mandates), and deploy financial instruments such as loans, equity, or guarantees (as distinguished from grant-making agencies). They exist to enable sustainable economic development, but some of their investments also put nature at risk.

Aligning Development Finance with Nature’s Needs: Estimating the nature-related risks of development bank investments

Banks Biodiversity Finance Investments Publications Risk

24 de January de 2022

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.

Scaling Up Green, Social, Sustainability And Sustainability-Linked Bond Issuances In Developing Countries

Developing countries Development Market Publications Risk

1 de December de 2021

Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks

Finance Gender NDBs Public banks Publications

17 de November de 2021

This publication was jointly prepared by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). The publication was led by Vanina Vincensini, UN Women with substantive contributions from Mar Merita Blat, Philippe Galland and Myriam Mesbah from AFD; and Vipul Bhagat, Anna Falth, Robyn Oates and Diana Rusu from UN Women. The authors would like to thank the experts who generously contributed their time and expertise to review the report, including Lizabeth Bronder, Marcelo Giugale, Anna Gollub, Esther Illouz, and Daniel Seymour.

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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

Aligning Development Finance with Nature’s Needs: The role of government shareholders of development banks

Aligning Development Finance with Nature’s Needs: Estimating the nature-related risks of development bank investments

Scaling Up Green, Social, Sustainability And Sustainability-Linked Bond Issuances In Developing Countries

Public development banks driving gender equality: An overview of practices and measurement frameworks

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