The world has the money – here’s how to start leveraging it
S omewhere right now, a blueprint for a climate-resilient clinic is gathering dust. A shovel-ready plan for a regional solar grid sits stalled. When communities waiting for these projects are told that the money is not there, that is not the full story. There is an abundance of global capital. Private investment flows to developing countries – particularly for- eign direct investment – are typically two to three times larger than offi- cial development assistance globally, although ODA remains dominant in the poorest and most fragile contexts. The capital to build that clinic and that power grid absolutely exists for many countries. What we face is a failure to connect capital to opportunity. Investors need confidence. Conti- nuity. Bankable opportunities. Too often, they encounter none of the three. National development plans are ambi-
tious. Financing strategies exist on paper. What remains missing is the archi- tecture linking ambitious plans to actual capital. Working as part of the United Nations family, the United Nations Development Programme is commit- ted to fixing this design failure. Not as a bank. Not as a financier. But as a system integrator and facilitator – working with governments to build the system that connects national development priorities to pipelines of impactful and investable opportunities.
Global capital is not scarce, but connecting it to development priorities remains a systemic challenge. As public finance tightens, the focus must shift from funding individual projects to building the institutional architecture that can unlock sustained, large-scale private investment Alexander De Croo, administrator, United Nations Development Programme
FROM PLANS TO INVESTABLE PIPELINES
Moving away from isolated projects, UNDP takes country development priorities and translates them, end to end, into structured, investment-ready pipelines. For governments, this means
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