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#COP30 kicks off today in Belém - the gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region.

The top 3️⃣ UNCDF forest initiatives:

🌳 Pro-Congo Programme
🌳 Kibira and Kahuzi-Biega Peace Parks in Burundi 🇧🇮 & DRC 🇨🇩
🌳 Tiger Landscape Investment Facility

For more: uncdf.org/cop30
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A solar-powered water system in remote Bangladesh means 84-year-old Nayon Tara Chakma no longer walks 2km uphill for water. 💧

Through LoCAL, local govts turn climate finance into real services for 2.2M+ people.

#LocallyLedAdaptation in action

➡️Read the full story: uncdf.live/local-bd
Driving capital to the local level brings vital services to remote villages in Bangladesh
a locally devised investment in a solar-powered water system has brought water to Chakma’s door. This basic but vital infrastructure investm...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What does inclusion look like in digital finance?

It looks like 250+ professionals, many of them women, equipped to lead policy, regulation, and innovation across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. 🌍

🎥 Watch the webinar: ow.ly/jtqU50XaukF
Scaling Impact Through Women in DFS: A Webinar with UNCDF and Digital Frontiers Institute
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November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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UNEP’s latest #EmissionsGap Report shows global temperature rise has only slightly fallen, leaving the world on track for escalating climate risks.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges countries to step up now and cut planet-warming emissions: www.unep.org/resources/em...
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.

According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Financial Literacy Week 2025 wrapped in Gambella, Ethiopia.

And the numbers show what’s possible when inclusion is intentional.

➡️ 55,000+ people reached.
➡️ Women and youth at the center.

UNCDF is supporting efforts to build a digital economy where everyone can participate.
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Uganda is home to more than 1.9M refugees who work, trade, farm, and build businesses every day.

But they lack access to formal finance.

UNCDF, with support from ECHO and local banking and fintech partners, is creating financial pathways so refugees can save, borrow, and invest in their futures.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Join us today at 12pm EDT at #SDGLive with Uju Rochas, Dhiren Chandaria, Charles Wetherill, and Damilola Banjo, as they reflect how finance and nutrition can come together to drive impact.

Watch live📺https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13/k13ug87wvw
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
With funding from Switzerland & support from the UN Peacebuilding Fund, UNCDF and Freetown City Council
are de-risking investment in solar-powered kiosks through the Blue Peace Financing Model.

Read how during #UNGA: uncdf.org/article/8985...

@swiss-un.bsky.social @swissfa.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
How is UNCDF turning the promise of #FfD4 into action?

Re-watch today's #SDGLive from #UNGA: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q... with Sierra Leone’s Minister H.E. Kenyeh Barlay, Malawi’s PR H.E. Dr. Agnes Mary Chimbiri-Molande, and UNCDF's Executive Secretary, in a conversation moderated by @devex.com.
September 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
How is UNCDF turning the promise of #FfD4 into action?

Join us Monday at #UNGA80 in the #SDGMediaZone with Malawi’s PR H.E. Dr. Agnes Mary Chimbiri-Molande & Sierra Leone’s Minister H.E. Kenyeh Barlay, moderated by Elissa Miolene from @devex.com

📺Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q....
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🌊 Can impact investing be the big ticket for #SIDS to protect our oceans & deliver on #SDG14?

🎙️Find out in the latest @odi.global #SmallIslandsBigPicture podcast with Yabanex Batista of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (co-led by UNCDF, UNDP & @unep.org).

🎧 Tune in: odi.org/en/insights/...
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#FfD4 is over—but the outcome was clear.

Member States encouraged UNCDF to shift the risk profile of early-stage markets in #LDCs and countries in special situations to unlock private capital and allow MDBs to scale.

Catch up on what you missed: youtu.be/SveyPZD8aT4
Blended Finance, Bold Action: Highlights from the Seville Commitment
YouTube video by UN Capital Development Fund
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July 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🗣️ Today at #FfD4, @un-ecosoc.bsky.social President reaffirmed his strong belief in UNCDF's catalytic role.

A proud moment as he recognized UNCDF’s mandate and investment capabilities that help create jobs and bring prosperity to the world’s most underserved markets.
July 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
UNCDF is making history.

At #FfD4, a once-in-a-decade chance to reshape global finance, the outcome document recognizes UNCDF’s role to deploy catalytic concessional first-loss capital and de-risk investment in #LDCs.

Read: 🔗 uncdf.live/OutcomeDoc
Watch: 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdic...
UNCDF’s Role in the Future of Development Finance
YouTube video by UN Capital Development Fund
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July 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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

@undp.org
June 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🇲🇼 A UNCDF loan to a small agribusiness in Malawi triggered:

30% ⬆️ in annual turnover
✅ job creation
🌾 new revenue streams

In 2024 Ziweto Malawi became the 1st Malawian #MSME to be listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius.

Read more here: uncdf.link/8928

#MSMEDay

@undp.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ahead of #FfD4, UNCDF's Laura Muñoz joins the UNRIC podcast to break down what is the international financial architecture and how UNCDF can de-risk investment and unlock capital for #LDCs.

Listen (in Spanish): uncdf.link/listen-esp
Read (in Spanish): uncdf.link/read-esp
June 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
During #LCAW2025, UNCDF, MUFG EMEA, and UNDP
are scaling access to catalytic capital for climate action.

Concessional first-loss and blended finance can shift risk and unlock private investment across #LDCs, #SIDS & underserved markets.

Find out how🔗 uncdf.live/mufg-uncdf
June 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Ahead of #FfD4, @achimsteiner.bsky.social reflects on why the future of development finance hinges on catalytic institutions like UNCDF: de-risking investment & unlocking private capital to scale the impact of partners such as UNDP and the wider UN system.

via El País: uncdf.link/pto (in Spanish)
Reimaginando la ayuda al desarrollo en una era de riesgos
La IV Conferencia Internacional sobre Financiación para el Desarrollo, que se celebrará en Sevilla, es una oportunidad para replantear la financiación pública como catalizador de inversiones que llegu...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🌊 Durante #UNOC3, el UNCDF:

🔵 Anunció +US$25M dedicado para los arrecifes de coral
@GlobalFundCoral

🔵 Llamó a sumar socios a nueva plataforma para desbloquear miles de millones para la economía azul

uncdf.link/ocean-fin
June 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
L'UNCDF débloque des investissements là où ils sont le plus nécessaires.

Lors de l'#UNOC3, nous avons présenté « The One Ocean Finance Facility », un modèle innovant visant à mobiliser des capitaux pour investir dans les océans.

uncdf.link/call-ocean
June 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🌊 At #UNOC3 the big question is 'How do we unlock finance for #SDG14?'

In this 30-min broadcast today, speakers from @UNDP @UNCDF the Government of Seychelles and @ORRAAnews offered some answers ⬇️

📺 bit.ly/MedZo

#GlobalGoals #SDGLive #UNOC3
June 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
As the most widespread coral bleaching event on record pushes the world’s reefs toward an ecological tipping point, a coalition of gov't and philanthropic partners has announced over US$2️⃣5️⃣ million in new contributions to the Global Fund for Coral Reefs at #UNOC3

🔗 bit.ly/GFCR25

🇳🇿 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪
June 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
#UNOC3

UNCDF invites govs, private sector, financial institutions & CSOs to join an inclusive co-design process to shape the new global 'One Ocean Finance Facility'.

"We need to make sure that we act large, we act fast and we act now" Pradeep Kurukulasuriya Exec Sec UNCDF

🔗 uncdf.link/call-ocean
June 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM