The Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF), a G20 initiative, is a global collaboration platform that integrates efforts to boost private investment in sustainable, quality infrastructure projects in developing countries and emerging markets. The GIF deploys funding and technical support to multilateral development banks (MDBs) to support their transaction advisory activities focused on preparing and structuring infrastructure projects to attract private investments. Bringing together donors, MDBs, governments and the private sector, GIF enables collective action to address a critical constraint to infrastructure investment: the shortage of well-prepared, investment-ready projects.
The GIF was established in 2014 as a G20 initiative to address a critical challenge for private investment in infrastructure in EMDEs: a lack of bankable pipelines of sustainable, quality infrastructure investment opportunities that are attractive to private capital.
The GIF provides end-to-end, comprehensive advisory services to client governments and multilateral development bank (MDB) partners – through both funding and hands-on technical expertise – to help select, design, and structure infrastructure investments that crowd-in private investment. Our global portfolio supports design, preparation, and structuring across economic infrastructure – energy, water and sanitation, transport, municipal solid waste, and information and communications technology (ICT). It also reflects a focus on the themes of climate-smart, connectivity, and integration, in addition to social infrastructure such as healthcare and education facilities, affordable housing, and other public buildings.
