Blended finance

The Water Access Acceleration Fund attracted commitments from international development finance institutions, foundations, family offices, and private investors.

Commitments from a range of financial services organisations and from development finance capital will allow the fund to invest as much $1bn in next-generation infrastructure across Africa and Asia by 2028.

The toolkit aims to encourage a more standardised approach to structuring blended finance and boost investment flows to developing countries.

The loan to coffee exporter Just Know Your Coffee Cup may benefit as many as 20,000 smallholder farmers in the East-African country.

As the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development approaches, Umberto Marengo looks at the role of blended finance in mobilising private capital for sustainable development, highlighting the need for more effective deployment at scale.

Incofin is one of three portfolio managers of the Global Gender-Smart Fund, which was founded last year to address the $1.7trn gender gap in financial services in emerging markets.

The loans will be used to upgrade Britain’s ageing social housing sector, which needs close to £36bn of investment to fully decarbonise, according to the National Housing Federation.

The Netherlands-based blended finance fund manager is hoping the new vehicle will unlock private sector investment for a vast range of green hydrogen technologies.

The initiative seeks to tap City of London expertise to develop ways to increase sustainable sovereign debt financing in emerging markets.

The joint investment from three European DFIs will support food security while strengthening climate resilience across across sub-Saharan Africa. Agriculture remains core to many African economies, yet the sector faces persistent challenges.