The Government of the Netherlands, a longstanding strategic partner to UNCDF, has renewed its funding support to UNCDF, strengthening the organization’s ability to design and structure blended finance solutions that mobilize private capital in early-stage and last mile markets across least developed countries, Small Island Developing States, and fragile settings.

The renewed funding sustains investment advisory capacity across Africa, ensuring UNCDF can deploy the specialized financial structuring and technical expertise needed in contexts underserved by traditional capital. This support maintains critical functions that combine the deployment of risk-absorbing financial instruments with hands-on advisory services.

UNCDF's unique investment expertise is delivering results across multiple initiatives undertaken with UN agencies and development organizations: supporting solar-powered cold storage in Kenya, expanding access to finance for smallholder farmers and agricultural SMEs in Rwanda, advancing women economic empowerment in Burkina Faso, enabling young entrepreneurs and school meals suppliers in Benin and investing in solutions to support local humanitarian supply chain in Nigeria.

The Netherlands' renewed commitment reflects confidence in UNCDF's approach—building sustained investment capacity rather than delivering stand-alone projects, one that solidifies our ability to answer the call from Member States, as laid out in the Compromiso de Sevilla, to deploy catalytic finance for those too often left behind by global capital flows.