The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the Canada Forum for Impact Investment and Development (CAFIID), a national platform that brings together Canadian organizations and professionals committed to advancing impact investing and innovative finance for sustainable development.
CAFIID provides an important space for dialogue, learning, and collaboration on how capital can be mobilized more effectively to generate measurable social and environmental outcomes. UNCDF’s membership reflects its mandate to deploy catalytic concessional first loss capital to derisk investments in Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, and fragile settings, and to crowd in domestic and international private finance.
Through its membership in CAFIID, UNCDF looks forward to:
- Collaborating with Canadian peers and contributing to exchanges on innovative and catalytic finance for emerging markets
- Participating in events that explore how capital can better support development outcomes in frontier and emerging markets
- Engaging in knowledge sharing and ecosystem building across Canada’s impact and development finance community
Innovative finance is central to advancing the Sustainable Development Goals at a time of declining Official Development Assistance and rising global financing gaps. By joining CAFIID, UNCDF strengthens its engagement with Canada’s impact investment community and reinforces its role as the United Nations system’s advance derisking partner, building markets and mobilizing greater capital for sustainable development.
Learn more about CAFIID and UNCDF’s membership here: https://www.cafiid.ca/cafiid-member/uncdf
