Wednesday 23 October 2024

While many point to the need for much larger multilateral development bank (MDB) mobilisation of private sustainable development finance, we lack sufficient evidence on current performance to assess where the best opportunities for mobilisation lie—including by sector, country, region, and financial instrument. This information gap is particularly worrisome as shareholders and donors are being asked to provide more concessional resources to support private finance mobilisation, without having a strong basis to judge where and how their scarce funds can be most productively deployed.

Publish What You Fund has completed an ambitious work program aimed at strengthening mobilisation measurement and reporting. We have developed a well-evidenced set of recommendations on what needs to be measured and disclosed to be most useful to public and private stakeholders.

Alongside the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, our CEO Gary Forster presented our work to an audience at the Center for Global Development in Washington Dc. This was followed by a panel discussion exploring the key measurement and disclosure challenges that need to be resolved in order to make and track more mobilisation progress.

We were delighted to be joined by:

• Nick Anstett, Managing Director, Pollination
• Chris Eleftheriades, Executive Director, Lion’s Head Global Partners
• Margaret Kuhlow, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Development Finance and Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Haje Schütte, Deputy Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD
• Phil Stevens, Head of International Financial Institutions, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
• Gary Forster, CEO, Publish What You Fund (presenter)
• Nancy Lee, Director, Sustainable Development Finance, Center for Global Development (moderator)