The Role of Financial Actors in Scaling Country Platforms

Currently, there is widespread duplication of efforts, mismatches in timing, and blurred roles among finance providers. Interventions are often misaligned, leading to inflated transaction costs and suboptimal use of scarce grant resources. For country platforms to achieve transformational outcomes, financial actors must act in a more coordinated and strategic manner.

The recent 4th International Financing for Development Conference outcome emphasized the need for financing to work as an integrated system, and given strong guidance to the roles each category of actors need to play. This session continues conversations from WRI's June webinar on country platforms; builds on ideas from WRI’s recent Expert Note, The Role of Financial Actors in Enabling Country Platforms; and provides a forum for frank dialogue among leaders in public and private finance on how to overcome systemic barriers to coordination and capital mobilization.

Moderator: Crispian Olver, Deputy Chair, Presidential Climate Commission, South Africa and Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute

Panelists:

• Ivan Thiago Machado Oliveira, Undersecretary for Financing Sustainable Development, Ministry of Finance, Brazil
• Catherine Koffman, Director for Department of the Africa Region, Green Climate Fund
• Dana Barsky, Global Head of Sustainability and Net Zero, Standard Chartered Bank
• Zeph Kivungi, Africa Director for Climate, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation
• Dipak Patel, Senior Advisor: Climate Finance and Innovation, Presidential Climate Commission, South Africa
• Rémy Rioux, Chief Executive Officer, Agence Française de Développement
• Melanie Robinson, Global Director of the Climate, Economics and Finance Program, World Resources Institute