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The Humanitarian Finance Forum is a global network of professionals working in humanitarian finance. We provide a platform for collaboration, learning, and advocacy. Contact us today to learn more about our work and how you can get involved.

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Bringing together experts with AidEx participants to share public and private perspectives around the new and rapidly developing field of innovative finance, and to explore addressing funding needs for projects in LIC/FCSA settings.

AidEx 2023 - Innovative Finance Side Event

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Public service provision in fragile states often involve a complex network of external development agencies, NGOs, and domestic institutions. This session explore building effective partnerships in these high-risk areas.

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Social Outcomes Conference 2023

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Blended Finance for the Humanitarian Sector
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The OECD, Convergence, and the Blended Finance Task Force presented their recent findings and reports on Blended Finance and reviewed implications and considerations for humanitarian challenges and organizations while highlighting the limits, challenges, and issues with Blended Finance in this context.
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The event convened around 50 participants from more than 30 different public and private organizations bringing a broad range of perspectives from different sectors, with a range of knowledge and experience in Blended Finance.
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Insufficient volumes have been raised and progress needs to be made on private finance mobilisation. From 2012-19, a total of US$ 257.6 billion was mobilized from the private sector by official development finance interventions, less than a tenth of the estimated sUG financing needs. About USD 50 billion was mobilised in 2018/19 and that amount is plateauing. Private finance mobilization is especially lacking in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Most
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private finance was mobilised for middle-income countries, mainly targeting the banking energy and industry sectors. The areas and countries most in need of Rended Finance are left behind - receiving only 12% of amounts mobilised from the private sector for developing countries.
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COVID outbreak aggravated a downward trend in external private finance in developing countries. Financial inflows to developing countries have been declining steadily since 2017 and remain below their level of 2010, resulting in a 22% decline in external private resources.
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Blended Finance has a critical role to play in mobilizing private capital, especially for LDCs and for Fragile Conflict, and Violent or Humanitarian settings
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Blended Finance is not a silver bullet, but part of a broad suite of interventions using development and philanthropic capital as part of a solution to lower risk at a reasonable cost
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Blended Finance &amp; Humanitarian Finance should avoid silos and reinventing the Blended Finance wheel to increase private sector mobilisation.
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Challenges in Blended Finance are small scale, high transaction costs, and lack of replication.

The OECD, Convergence, and the Blended Finance Task Force presented their recent findings and reports on Blended Finance and reviewed implications and considerations for humanitarian challenges