Financing country platforms

The document outlines a framework for 'country platforms'—mechanisms to align public and private finance behind country-led plans. It identifies six elements of effective platforms, including strong political leadership and integrated planning, and details the specific contributions of domestic institutions, international public institutions, and private finance providers.

• Country platforms are designed to move away from a "top-down, fragmented, and project-based approach" by aligning public and private, national and international finance behind country-led policy reforms and plans for climate, nature, and development.
• Effective country platforms require six core elements: strong political leadership combined with broad-based social agreement; integrated policy and investment planning; timely and coordinated grant funding for institutional capacity; a systemic approach to investment finance; early private sector engagement; and south-south learning and investment.
• Domestic institutions play critical anchoring roles: heads of state provide political mandates, while ministries of finance and planning incorporate climate goals into national budgets and drive structural fiscal reforms.
• National development banks (NDBs) are essential for providing patient capital and lending in local currency to reduce foreign exchange risk, though they are often limited by undercapitalization and shallow domestic capital markets.
• Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are instrumental in structuring platforms by providing macroeconomic analysis, debt management, and a variety of financial instruments to mitigate risks and mobilize private finance.
• Private finance is necessary for scale and technology diffusion, but currently, approximately 70 percent of blended climate finance flows to international corporations rather than domestic businesses.
• Philanthropic capital, while small in volume, is highly valuable for early-stage institutional setup and supporting actors often missed by other funders, such as small community-based organizations; however, less than 2 percent of philanthropic funding currently targets climate mitigation.

APA

Robinson, M., & Larsen, G. (2025). Financing country platforms. World Resources Institute. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2025-06/financing-country-platforms.pdf?VersionId=A3PpdLvOj9.oPO98HUtq2bSrU.9S2uzZ&_gl=1*vn0qba*_gcl_au*NDIwNTMyMjc3LjE3NTA4NjcwMTM.

Chicago

Robinson, Melanie, and Gaia Larsen. Financing country platforms. World Resources Institute, 2025. https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2025-06/financing-country-platforms.pdf?VersionId=A3PpdLvOj9.oPO98HUtq2bSrU.9S2uzZ&_gl=1*vn0qba*_gcl_au*NDIwNTMyMjc3LjE3NTA4NjcwMTM.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{robinson2025financing, author = {Robinson, Melanie and Larsen, Gaia}, title = {{Financing country platforms}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2025}, month = jun, url = {https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2025-06/financing-country-platforms.pdf?VersionId=A3PpdLvOj9.oPO98HUtq2bSrU.9S2uzZ&_gl=1*vn0qba*_gcl_au*NDIwNTMyMjc3LjE3NTA4NjcwMTM.}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }