The United Nations Capital Development Fund makes

PUBLIC and PRIVATE Finance

work for the poor in the 46 least developed countries

UNCDF pursues innovative financing solutions through

Financial Inclusion

to expand opportunities for individuals, households and small businesses

UNCDF pursues innovative financing solutions through

Local Development Finance

to contribute to a sustainable and equitable local development

UNCDF pursues innovative financing solutions through a

Least Developed Countries Investment Platform

to deploy financial instruments in the missing middle

In this time of crisis, UNCDF can leverage

technical expertise and investment instruments

to reduce and limit the economic and social hardship communities are experiencing

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About UNCDF

The UN Capital Development Fund makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 46 least developed countries (LDCs).

UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.

UNCDF’s financing models work through three channels: (1) inclusive digital economies, which connects individuals, households, and small businesses with financial eco-systems that catalyze participation in the local economy, and provide tools to climb out of poverty and manage financial lives; (2) local development finance, which capacitates localities through fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance to drive local economic expansion and sustainable development; and (3) investment finance, which provides catalytic financial structuring, de-risking, and capital deployment to drive SDG impact and domestic resource mobilization.

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COVID-19 Pandemic

In this time of crisis, local governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises in developing countries are facing new and unforeseen challenges. Given the need for “emergency” capital, UNCDF can leverage the following technical expertise and investment instruments to reduce and limit the economic and social hardship communities are experiencing.

Blended Finance in the Least Developed Countries

Since 2018, UNCDF and the OECD have collaborated on research and knowledge on blended finance in the LDCs, with the aim to contribute to the policy debate on blended finance by developing empirical evidence and original research on how blended finance can be best used in LDCs to mitigate risk and attract investment for the SDGs.

Capital Musings. A UNCDF Podcast Show.

Capital Musings is a podcast series featuring in-depth conversations with economic development experts, thought-leaders and private sector leaders discussing critical issues at the intersection of development finance, impact investment and the SDGs.

UNCDF and the SDGs

By strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels, UNCDF contributes to SDG 1 on eradicating poverty and SDG 17 on the means of implementation.

By identifying those market segments where innovative financing models can have transformational impact in helping to reach the last mile and address exclusion and inequalities of access, UNCDF contributes to a number of different SDGs.

How does Local Development Finance Support the SDGs?

How does Financial Inclusion Support the SDGs?