On #IWD2026, we thank UN Women for multiple UN System-wide Action Plan Awards.
These recognitions reflect our commitment to integrating gender equality into development finance and investment strategies.
At the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, UNCDF was formally recognized for its catalytic role in development finance.
🎥 Watch here on how UNCDF is turning that commitment into action ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tht...
In 2024, only 2% of global foreign direct investment reached the world's least developed countries. Why?
The problem is structural.
UNCDF exists to disrupt this pattern.
🔗 www.uncdf.org
Technology exists. Needs are urgent. Capital is available. So why does the innovation gap keep widening?
🎙️ A new UNCDF and SINTEF webinar explores this question with Norad and NABA.
🔗 Watch it here ➡️ youtu.be/Su0cDXAH08U
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UNCDF's Executive Secretary presented the Strategic Framework 2026–2029 to its Executive Board, setting a clear direction for how UNCDF will scale its catalytic role in an increasingly constrained development finance landscape. 📈
A milestone for Investing for Peace (I4P). 🎉
This week in Berlin, founding partners — German Federal Foreign Office, UN United Nations Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office, and UNCDF — convened with I4P's newly appointed Boards.
From vision to action.
https://pulse.ly/hgk7so79no
The deadline is fast approaching!
The application window for the SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals closes Jan 31.
A practical pathway for companies to embed the #SDGs through innovation and leadership development.
https://unglobalcompact.org/take-action/sdg-innovation-accelerator
The OECD DAC Blended Finance Guidance highlights that blended finance isn’t reaching the places that need it most.
🤝 Stronger collaboration between policymakers, development finance providers, and the private sector is needed.
🔗 Read the full report here ➡️ www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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Climate finance works when it reaches the last mile.💧
For 84-year-old Nayon Tara Chakma, life meant climbing steep hills every morning just to collect water.
Thanks to a locally led, solar-powered water system, safe water is now at her doorstep.
https://pulse.ly/ys0jkwg7cn
Check out how we’re investing in women led businesses in the Pacific. It’s not aid, it’s about agency.
UNCDF welcomes Alexander De Croo as UNDP Administrator and UNCDF Managing Director.
Together, UNDP and UNCDF bridge policy ambition with capital, de-risking markets, mobilizing private finance, and expanding inclusion in LDCs and SIDS.
www.uncdf.org/managing-dir...
What happens when catalytic finance reaches early-stage agribusinesses?
For Ziweto in Malawi:
📈 30% revenue growth
💼 Youth jobs
📦 Stronger supply chains
🌍 National expansion
Watch their story ➡️ youtu.be/OKIG6uY3HDk?...
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Proud we are.
Action driven we remain. Let’s invest in ocean-positive businesses in the countries where no one else wants to invest.
#LDCs #SIDS #COP30 #Ocean #OceanFinance
In Ghana, UNCDF is showing how local finance drives national resilience.
Through catalytic investments and training, 13 districts now manage climate funds that have reached over one million people.
🌱 Mary’s story shows it’s working. #COP30
uncdf.live/cop-ghana
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🚨 Police in Bedfordshire are working with tech giant Palantir to develop a surveillance network that will incorporate people's personal information...
...including health records, sex lives, and political opinions
Read the full story libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...
Meet us tomorrow in Seville! 🇪🇸
#DYK 👉🏾 UNCDF is the only #UN entity with a capital mandate? We provide catalytic financing through grants, concessional loans & guarantees to public & private sector
Learn about us ahead of #FFD4 & see where we'll be speaking: uncdf.org/uncdf-at-ffd4
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Good news/bad news from the upcoming 2030 reform of the UN's Standard for National Accounting.
Good news: extraction of non-renewable resources such as oil, gas and minerals are to be counted as a negative component of GDP. GDP of petrostates goes down.
Bad news: crypto assets, crypto mining […]
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"The current global financial system is simply not working for Africa"
Read below our (modest yet ambitious) contribution to fixing it. 👇
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