This report was jointly prepared by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), under the leadership of Executive Secretary Judith Karl, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Co-operation Directorate, led by Director Jorge Moreira da Silva. The two organisations remain deeply appreciative of the quality of this collaboration, which began in 2017.
The lead authors of this report are Laura Sennett, Policy Specialist, and Casper Sonesson, Policy Adviser, UNCDF, Faty Dembele, Policy Analyst, and Valentina Bellesi, Junior Policy Analyst, OECD. Many thanks to the UNCDF management team and other colleagues for their important guidance throughout the drafting process. Within UNCDF, the work was performed under the supervision of Esther Pan Sloane, Head of the Partnerships, Policy and Communications Unit. Within the OECD, the work was performed under the supervision of Haje Schütte, Head of Financing for Sustainable Development Division, and under the guidance of Paul Horrocks, Head of Private Finance for Sustainable Development Unit. The report, and Chapter 4 in particular, benefited from invaluable support on data collection from Cécile Sangaré and Tomáš Hos, OECD. The authors would also like to thank Thomas Boehler and Rafael Duque Figueira, OECD, for their engagement through the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC). The quantitative analysis also benefited from the complementary information generously provided by Ayesha Bery, Convergence.
The team would like to extend sincere thanks to the authors of the guest contributions for sharing their experiences and expertise: Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Bangladeshi Parliament; Aakif Merchant, Convergence; Nathan Kelley and Pooja Yadav, CrossBoundary; David Hughes, Global Affairs Canada; Lasitha Perera, GuarantCo; Luigi Lannutti and Kruskaia Sierra-Escalante, International Finance Corporation; Samantha Attridge, Overseas Development Institute; Roland V. Pearson Junior, Palladium; Feisal Hussain, ThinkAhead Consulting; and Abdul-Rahman Lediju, Anders Berlin, David Jackson, Henri Dommel and Nan Zhang, UNCDF. The authors would also like to thank speakers and participants of all rounds of consultations (information on the consultations can be found in the foreword).
The report benefited immensely from comments and feedback from a group of expert peer reviewers: Rob Floyd, African Center for Economic Transformation; Ayesha Bery, Convergence; Nathan Kelly and Pooja Yadav, CrossBoundary; Marco Serena and Cecile Sorhus, GuarantCo; Luigi Lannutti, International Finance Corporation; Rohit Matthan, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency; Thomas Boehler, Priscilla Boiardi, Rafael Duque Figueira, Weronika Garbacz, Tomáš Hos, Rachel Morris, Cécile Sangaré and Esme Stout, OECD; Roland V. Pearson Junior, Palladium; Sharon Spiegel, Resina Katafono and Sander Hanson Glas, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Anne Philine Kersting and Susanna Wolf, United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States; and Rajeev Kumar Gupta, Mattias Granqvist, David Jackson, Esther Pan Sloane, Bram Peters and Omon Ukpoma-Olaiya, UNCDF.
A special thanks to the communications team for their support, including Nasser AlQatami, Victoria Guridi, David Mikhail and Fernando Zarauz-Astorki, UNCDF, and Stacey Bradbury, Sara Casadevall Bellés, Stephanie Coic, Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte and Jessica Voorhees, OECD. The authors also express their appreciation to Jessieca Aduca and Maxime Allonce, UNCDF, and Elise Le Marec, OECD, for their administrative support, to Markus MacGill of Green Ink for editorial support, and to Minh Duong of Minh Designs for graphic design.