Blended Finance development partners and contributors range from governments to multilaterals to trust funds to foundations.
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Government of CanadaKey contact: |
Canada and IFC have a long-standing blended finance partnership to unlock private sector opportunities to combat climate change through three Canada climate programs. |
Climate Investment Funds
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The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) is an $8 billion multi-donor trust fund that seeks to accelerate climate action by empowering transformations in clean technology, energy access, climate resilience, and sustainable forests in developing and middle-income countries. |
Government of Finland
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In 2017, Finland and IFC entered a partnership to respond to the threat of climate change and the necessary private sector investments needed to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. |
GAFSP
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The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) is a global effort that pools donor resources to fund programs focused on increasing agricultural productivity as a way to reduce poverty and increase food and nutrition security. The Private Sector Window, managed by IFC, and supported by the governments of Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States, provides long- and short-term loans, credit guarantees, equity, and technical assistance to private sector companies and financial intermediaries. |
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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India Agritech Facility (BMGF-IAF) de-risks IFC’s early-stage equity investments in agriculture technology ('agritech') companies in India and aims to develop solutions for Indian smallholder farmers by investing in private sector led innovations in agriculture technology and business models that have the potential to be deployed at scale. |
The Global Environmental Facility
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The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) is a partnership across 18 implementing agencies — including the World Bank Group — that works with 183 countries to support developing countries to meet their international environmental commitments and to help safeguard the world’s forests, land, water, climate, and oceans, build green cities, protect threatened wildlife, and tackle new environmental threats like marine plastic pollution. |
Green Climate Fund
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries respond to climate change. IFC can seek GCF funding for programs and projects for blending for its investment operations. |
International Development Association
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IDA is one of the largest sources of assistance for the world’s poorest countries and is the single largest source of donor funds for basic social services in these countries. The IDA-PSW facility works to catalyze private sector investment in IDA-only countries, with a focus on fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS). |
Government of the Netherlands
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IFC has embarked on a regional partnership with the Government of the Netherlands to support development across the Middle East and North Africa region, which includes a dedicated blended finance facility, Alafaq Aljadida (New Horizons), to help reduce the risk profile of projects with high development impact in the MENA region. IFC is also partnering with the Netherlands on a blended finance investment facility as part of the PROSPECTS Initiative to help de-risk and increase the finance viability of high-impact projects benefiting refugees and Forcibly Displaced People and their host communities. |
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The Global SME Finance Facility is a blended-finance partnership, supported by the Government of the Netherlands, focused on helping to close the financing gap faced by SMEs in emerging markets. By providing investment and advisory services to financial institutions, the Facility helps them expand lending to SMEs in challenging markets and segments. |
The Rockefeller FoundationKey contact: |
IFC and The Rockefeller Foundation are partnering to make strategic investments in distributed renewable energy solutions, principally in Sub-Saharan Africa, through an initial $25 million blended concessional finance facility. |
Government of the United Kingdom
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Partnership on Blended Finance for Climate with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
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The Global SME Finance Facility is a blended-finance partnership, supported by the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office focused on helping to close the financing gap faced by SMEs in emerging markets. By providing investment and advisory services to financial institutions, the Facility helps them expand lending to SMEs in challenging markets and segments. |
We-Fi
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The International Finance Corporation Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (IFC We-Fi) program, a part of the World Bank Group We-Fi program, works with private sector actors to enable women entrepreneurs to start and grow firms. |
WeOF
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In partnership with the Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women (“GS10KW”) WeOF is the first-of-its-kind global facility dedicated to promoting access to finance for women-owned SMEs (“WSMEs”) through financial institutions (“FIs”). |
Partnerships and Multilateral Engagement
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