Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) provide a framework for financing national sustainable development priorities and the SDGs at the country level.

Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) Mobilizing resources, both domestic and global, to support sustainable development remains a key challenge for many developing countries.
In 2015, world leaders met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to agree upon a new global framework
for financing the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the
heart of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda are national sustainable development plans and
strategies supported by integrated national financing frameworks — or INFFs.

A country’s sustainable development strategy lays out what needs to be financed. INFFs spell out
how the national strategy will be financed and implemented, relying on the full range of public
and private financing sources. INFFs are a planning and delivery tool to help countries strengthen
planning processes and overcome obstacles to financing sustainable development and the SDGs
at the national level. https://inff.org .

These reports have been developed by UNCDF within the framework of the UN SDG Funded Project “Efficiency and optimisation of Lao PDR’s public budget to finance the SDGs through the National Plan”.

The project brings together UNDP and UNCDF and UNFPA to support the Government of Lao PDR to develop their Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) that will be used to support the
countries SDG commitments. INFFs provide a framework for financing national sustainable
development priorities and the SDGs at the country level.

These research papers have been drafted as a complementary to the Development Finance
Analysis (DFA 2021) that is being developed by UNDP. This body of work extends the DFA, analysing the financial flows towards the SDGs inclusive of all forms of external finance, FDI, ODA and the public sector budget.