Resources
Explore an array of resources below to deepen your understanding of impact investing. We encourage you to browse through CAFIID content, case studies, member content and additional resources on themes of catalysing finance, climate finance, gender lens invesing (GLI), health, and impact measurement and management (IMM).
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Sustainability in Private Capital Investing: A Systematic Literature Review
Contributions from Majid Mirza of ESG Tree
An exploration of bilateral development finance institutions’ business models
Working paper by Samantha Attridge & Christian Novak
Connecting impact investment and agricultural development: MEDA bridges the gap
MEDA
Lindsay Wallace (Senior Vice President, Strategy and Impact)
Jessica Villanueva (Senior Director of Technical Areas of Practice)
Understanding Climate Finance Podcast: FinDev Canada on investing and strategy moving forward
Lori Kerr, CEO of FinDev Canada, joins the podcast to share priority areas for the organization and what they aim to build in the years to come. Hosted by: Faheem Noor Ali, Climate Finance Trade Commissioner, Global Affairs Canada
Growing Gender Lens Investing in Emerging Markets
Edward T. Jackson (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, United Kingdom)
Carolina Robino (IDRC)
Technology for Impact: Enabling scalable and investable social innovations
Author: Dr. Brian Carriere
Development Impact Bonds: Generating positive and measurable development impact
Author: Dr. Brian Carriere
More impact investments to emerging markets needed to address the climate crisis and create good jobs
Authors: Lindsay Wallace and Paul Lamontagne
Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB) and Numida Technologies
Co-building assistance from EWB helped Uganda’s Numida secure early seed investments of US$ 2.3 million
December, 2021
MEDA and Trading Up
A MEDA-led blended finance partnership is behind Trading Up, a trade finance initiative to support SMEs in Ghana and Kenya.
December, 2021
Financing renewable energy projects from development to operations
FinDev Canada lays out South Africa’s Climate Investor One unique structure of three distinct but linked funds to attract concessional through to commercial investors in a large renewable energy fund.
December, 2021
Développement international Desjardins (DID): Putting blended finance at the service of micro and small entrepreneurs
A blended finance-structured investment in Tunisia’s Entrepreneur Financial Centre supporting micro and small entrepreneurs in Tunisia leveraged an initial grant and technical assistance to raise an additional $32 million.
December, 2021
Fondaction and EcoTierra: Working with small farmers on responsible land use and sustainable agriculture in Peru and Colombia
EcoTierra, in a G.P. co-owned by Fondaction and ECOTIERRA, is an agroforestry project developer and operator working with small farmers. Ecotierra created the Urapi Sustainable Land Use Fund to break the deforestation and poverty cycle of many forest frontier areas dominated by smallholder agriculture.
December, 2021
