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Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development

Government Sponsored / Multilateral Organisations
The Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development (IATF) supports the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. IATF annually reports on the global implementation of financing for development outcomes and advises on its progress and gaps, and provides recommendations.
Organisation
1 research item

British International Investment (formerly CDC Group)

Government Sponsored / Multilateral Organisations
British International Investment is the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor focused on solving development challenges. Their investments in green infrastructure, technology and other sectors, help create more sustainable and inclusive economies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, enabling people to build better lives for themselves and their communities.
Organisation
1 research item

Project SAGE series - Gender-lens investing

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The 'Project SAGE' series are benchmark reports released by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, tracks venture capital, private equity, and private debt investments with a gender lens. The project's goal was to provide a “point in time” capture of the expanding gender lens investing opportunities globally.
Benchmark/series
21 December 2021

Heliocene

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Heliocene is a knowledge platform presenting a deliberately small set of continually updated articles on the vast, fast-moving topic of business sustainability. The organisation is devoted to delivering information on global best practice business sustainability to a New Zealand corporate audience.
Organisation

SDG bonds and corporate finance: A roadmap to mainstream investments

United Nations Global Compact
This report describes how a market for mainstream investments that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), could be created with enough liquidity, scale, and diversification, to attract a range of investors. It inspires and guides companies, governments, and cities, to benefit from better funding while implementing the Paris Goals.
Research
22 November 2018

The missing middles: Segmenting enterprises to better understand their financial needs

Collaborative for Frontier Finance
Small and growing businesses (SGBs) have significant and positive impact on emerging and frontier markets. This report proposes a new segmentation framework to help service providers, enterprises, donors, limited partners (LPs) and field-building organisations understand and navigate the complex landscape of SGB investment in frontier and emerging markets.
Research
2 March 2018

Moving mountains: Unlocking private capital for biodiversity and ecosystems

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) seeks to expand private sector contribution and collaboration in biodiversity conservation by developing this guide to assist their understanding of biodiversity and role of private capital in sustainability. This guide aims to assist the private sector in developing finance solutions for biodiversity conservation and finance.
Research
14 November 2019

A market review of nature-based solutions: An emerging institutional asset class

Finance Earth
This report presents a global review of nature-based solutions (NbS), identifying and analysing 88 existing NbS investments between 2002 to 2021. The report identifies common trends of existing investments, both opportunities and barriers to NbS investments and suggests recommendations to institutional investors and policymakers.
Research
20 May 2021

FAIRR's meat sourcing engagement series

Ceres
The Global Investor Engagement on Meat Sourcing is an investor engagement series that documents collaborative dialogue between institutional investors and major food companies on managing environmental and supply-chain risks associated with meat and dairy sourcing, with a focus on climate, water and governance considerations.
Benchmark/series
8 August 2022

Climate solutions at work: An employee guide to drawdown-aligned business

Project Drawdown
This guide is for employees concerned about climate change and offers a suite of transformative actions that redefine business climate leadership by looking beyond “net zero”. It aims to democratise climate action so that all employees can contribute to climate solutions and helps employees across all sectors find their inroad.
Research
21 September 2021

Collaborative for Frontier Finance

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Collaborative for Frontier Finance (CFF) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to increase access to capital for small and growing businesses in emerging markets. CFF works with diverse stakeholders- including local capital providers and institutional investors to accelerate financing solutions that target Small and Growing Businesses.
Organisation
1 research item

Institutional asset owners: Strategies for engaging with asset managers for impact

Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
This report explores strategies to better align institutional asset owners with asset managers when managing impact expectations and outcomes. When institutional investors incorporate impact, they can mitigate issues that threaten the long-term value of their assets, and leverage their capital to help address the world's most intractable challenges.
Research
12 January 2022

Green Growth Knowledge Partnership

Government Sponsored / Multilateral Organisations
Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is a global community of policy, business and finance professionals, and organisations, committed to collaboratively generating, managing, and sharing knowledge on the transition to an inclusive green economy. They provide three knowledge platforms offering research, case studies and tools in green finance, policy, and industry.
Organisation
2 research items

Finance Earth

Commercial Organisations
Finance Earth is a mission-driven social enterprise, working in partnership with world-leading environmental organisations to protect and restore nature by utilising market-based mechanisms and implementing bespoke financial tools. They help create projects – and the investment vehicles to fund them – that balance positive outcomes for nature, communities and investors.
Organisation
1 research item

Global microscope 2020: The role of financial inclusion in the COVID-19 response

The Economist Intelligence Unit
This report is a study of the enabling environment for financial inclusion in 55 low to middle income countries. It focuses on the role of financial inclusion in terms of how governments in those countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research
31 December 2020

The Predistribution Initiative

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
The Predistribution Initiative is a non-profit multi-stakeholder effort to co-create improved investment practices and structures which share more wealth and influence with workers and communities. It has the ultimate aim of addressing systemic and systematic risks in markets and investors’ portfolios, such as inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss.
Organisation
3 research items
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