The IDFC Annual Meeting was taking place on the margins of the World Bank/IMF 2023 Annual Meetings in Marrakech, Morocco.

This meeting was marked by the election for the steering group and for the co presidency; it offered the opportunity also to review IDFC Work Program reflecting the commitments towards the Sustainable Development Goals; it offered the opportunity also to review IDFC Work Program reflecting our collective commitments towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

IDFC Co presidency

The Club elected Javier Diaz Fajardo, President of Bancoldex and Serge Ekue, president of BOAD (West African Development Bank) as co-chairs of IDFC for a 2-year mandate. The club will benefit from the complementarity of mandates, geographical footprints, shareholding structures of both institutions and from their strong willingness to align PDBs with the 2030 agenda, to enhance PDBs capacities and to develop financially sustainable projects.

After three consecutive mandates, the Agence Française de Développement (French Development Agency) is pleased to pursue its commitment by hosting IDFC Permanent Secretariat in Paris, France. The Club also reelected its steering group now counting 13 members and adding BOAD in the exercise of its mandate as new co-chair.

IDFC Green Finance Mapping

Since 2011, IDFC has conducted a periodic mapping of member institutions’ green finance contributions. In the 2023 Green Finance Mapping IDFC members reported a record high of $288 billion in total green finance commitments, a 29% increase from 2021. Cumulatively, green finance commitments by IDFC members surpassed $1.5 trillion since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015. This is the result of IDFC members’ unique ability to deliver green finance at scale. Mitigation finance reached the highest level to date ($245 billion), increasing by 31% over 2021. Adaptation finance also reached a record high, increasing 52% to $31.6 billion. The uptick in adaptation finance follows members’ commitment to increase their adaptation finance in the IDFC State of Ambition (2021). Overall, more than half of members (14) increased their green commitments in 2022 returning to, or surpassing, pre-pandemic levels. Finance for biodiversity projects remained stable in 2022, totaling $18.2 billion.

Key findings:

• $288 billion in green finance in 2022, a record high
• $1.5 trillion in total green finance since 2015
• $245 billion in mitigation finance in 2022
• Adaptation finance increased 52% to a record high of $31.6 billion
• $18 billion in biodiversity finance in 2022

COP28IDFC Pavilion 

For the fourth consecutive year, IDFC is organizing a pavilion in the blue zone of the COP28 happening in Dubai from November 30 to December 12.

The Club is expecting more than forty events co led by 9 members (AFD, BICE, BNDES, CABEI, CAF, DBSA, JICA, KfW and PTSMI,) and 7 partners (MCI, I4CE, IDDRI, UNOPS, UNEHS, ETP and CPI).

Key topics are emerging with the climate finance nexus; such as energy, biodiversity, deforestation, oceans, cities and Paris Alignment.

IDFC first Gender tracker

IDFC released its first Gender Mapping monitoring and reporting tool for the IDFC members to screen and track their commitments to gender equality.

This first IDFC Gender Finance Mapping, for 2021, was conducted with 9 IDFC members: AFD, BICE, CABEI, CAF, DBSA, HBOR, KFW, NAFIN and TSKB. They reported that they committed close to €10 billion for Gender Focused and Gender Sensitive projects. This is almost 20% of the reporting PDBs’ new commitments in 2021 (€54.5 billion).

It shows how PDBs progressively integrate gender considerations in their investments, with gender as either the primary or secondary focus. It is a key driver to identify where the needs are and which sectors we should prioritize, to reach SDG 5 on Gender Equality. This survey will now be conducted on an annual basis, providing a baseline for IDFC going forward.

SDGs position paper

The UN SDG summit in September marked the mid-point in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals; as a contribution to this milestone, IDFC strengthened its ambition through a position paper on SDGs alignment.

In this paper, IDFC presents a framework for the alignment of Public Development Banks with the SDGs as well as individual information and commitments by different IDFC members, reflecting the implementation of the SDGs.

Based on the principle of making all financial flows compatible with achieving the SDGs, the framework comprises concrete elements for implementation at three different levels:

1. entity (policies and strategies, human resources and incentives),
2. operations (processes and tools, products and services, accountability) and
3. external partners (mobilization of stakeholders).

IDFC is also willing to pursue the strategic dialogue with other stakeholders of the wider financial community towards a shared understanding on what it means to align the financial flows with the SDGs.

The Annual Meeting started with a preliminary discussion about the IDFC Climate Facility activities

Notably the initiation of the process of the replenishment of the IDFC Climate and Biodiversity Facility activities, created in 2019 and launched under pilot phase basis for 4 years.
The Annual meeting approved the Common principles on adaptation new metrology developed and adopted by MDBs in 2022.
The annual meeting acknowledged the revised version of the common principles on mitigation prepared jointly by MDBs and IDFC.