Episode 15

#15 Managing Infrastructure Assets to Finance Sustainable Development:

The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and the UN Capital Development Fund recently a released a critical joint publication that provides guidance to local and national governments on how to manage assets relating to public infrastructure investments. Ahead of this year's Finance for Development Forum (FfD), we invited four contributors of the handbook to the podcast to discuss the publication and to explain why infrastructure asset management is essential to SDG achievement.

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United Nations Capital Development Fund

The UN Capital Development Fund makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 45 least developed countries (LDCs).

UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.

UNCDF pursues innovative financing solutions through: (1) financial inclusion, which expands the opportunities for individuals, households, and small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in the local economy, while also providing differentiated products for women and men so they can climb out of poverty and manage their financial lives; (2) local development finance, which shows how fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance can drive public and private funding that underpins local economic expansion, women’s economic empowerment, climate adaptation, and sustainable development; and (3) a least developed countries investment platform that deploys a tailored set of financial instruments to a growing pipeline of impactful projects in the “missing middle.’’