GIF is built on our strong partnerships. Together with our donors, other development finance institutions, country governments, and the experience of private sector investors and financiers, we are able to leverage our collective knowledge and resources to find solutions to sustainable infrastructure financing challenges.
Mari Pangestu

Mari Pangestu
Co-Chair of the GIF Advisory Council and Managing Director of Development Policy & Partnerships, World Bank

On assuming her role as the new GIF Advisory Council Co-Chair and providing opening remarks at the GIF Advisory Council Meeting on  May 10, 2021,  Ms. Pangestu said:

 

“As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, infrastructure, and the private sector are key to building back better, requiring sizable investments and global coordination. Facilities like the GIF play a critical role in mobilizing the private sector by building pipelines of sustainable, quality, bankable infrastructure projects and, more broadly, promoting infrastructure as an asset class. I’m pleased to be part of this essential work as part of our efforts to help developing countries get back on track, towards green, resilient and inclusive development.”

Funding Partners

GIF is supported by generous contributions from the governments of Australia, Canada,  China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the World Bank.

 

Former Vice President of Infrastructure at the World Bank, Makhtar Diop.
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Makhtar Diop, former Co-Chair of the GIF Advisory Council and Vice President of the Infrastructure Practice Group at the World Bank, shares his views during the GIF's 2019 Advisory Council Meeting in Washington on why mobilizing investments from the private sector is critical for inclusive green growth and how the GIF is helping.

Technical Partners

GIF works with various multilateral development banks that serve as implementing partners for GIF-supported projects. These include the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Finance Corporation, Islamic Development Bank, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and World Bank.

Technical Partners
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Lin O’Grady, Deputy Head, EBRD's Sustainable Infrastructure Group, tells us why it’s important for the EBRD to work with the GIF and what makes the GIF a unique global collaboration platform.

Advisory Partners

Our Advisory Partners serve as the voice of the private sector, engaged in infrastructure finance. We call upon our advisory partners to act as a sounding board during the preparation and structuring of GIF-supported projects to help maximize attractiveness to private capital when investment opportunities are brought to market. Through the regular convenings of the GIF Advisory Council, which brings together our funding, technical, beneficiary, and advisory partners, we are able to exchange knowledge and ideas and collaborate to tackle the bottlenecks to creating “infrastructure as an asset class”, including emerging market infrastructure assets.

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Jerome Haegeli, then Co-Chair of the GIF Advisory Council, and Group Chief Economist Swiss Re, Managing Director, Swiss Re Institute explains at the 2019 Advisory Council Meeting how the GIF brings the public and private sectors together and why being an Advisory Partner is a unique value proposition.

 

Currently, the GIF has 50+ Advisory Partners with $18 trillion in assets under management. Together, they represent private investors and financiers, including pension funds, insurers, asset managers, developers, and investment and commercial banks.

 

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Institutional Investors

13

Commercial Banks

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Development Finance Institutions, Regional, National, State Development Banks

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Quality and Sustainability Organizations, and Finance Associations

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In November 2021, our current and former Advisory Council Co-Chairs joined together to write an open letter of support for the GIF to the global infrastructure finance community.


Read the open letter here

 

"An increase in public finance can play a critical role in addressing the need for project development and preparation necessary to address the shortage of bankable sustainable infrastructure projects in EMDEs. In particular, we believe that GIF has a proven business model for addressing this bottleneck and has played a critical role in mobilizing the private sector to date. We believe it is the ideal focal point into which additional funds should be channeled.”

 

- Current and Former Private Sector Co-Chairs of GIF Advisory Council

Beneficiary Partners

Our Beneficiary Partners represent governments of countries that may benefit from GIF support. They provide regional insights and strategic guidance to ensure that the GIF is working towards its stated objectives of helping emerging markets meetings their infrastructure needs.  

 

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Patrick Musoke, Deputy Director of Strategy Management and Business Development of Kampala Capital City Authority, Uganda, shares how the GIF partnership helps build capacity and bring private sector infrastructure investment to African cities.

GLOBAL INITIATIVES WE SUPPORT

The GIF supports multiple global coalitions and initiatives that help advance the critical role infrastructure plays in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  

FAST-Infra

The GIF is partnering with HSBC (a GIF Advisory Partner), IFC, OECD, and the Climate Policy Initiative on the Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition-Infrastructure (or FAST-Infra Initiative). This is an industry-led, public-private initiative with two main components: to develop a sustainable infrastructure labeling system and to target financial interventions to expand private infrastructure finance in developing countries, particularly from institutional investors. 

Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI)

Formed in 2018 by Michael Bloomberg at the request of the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI) convenes leading global financial investors to drive climate action and accelerate country-driven, cross-sectoral solutions for scaling net-zero financing. CFLI’s Country Pilots are supported by the collective efforts of the CFLI Secretariat, comprised of Bloomberg LP, the GIF, the UK Government, and the City of London Corporation. Each country pilot will focus on accelerating private capital mobilization for targeted Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) financing priorities.

Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA)

The Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA) is a multi-level and multi-stakeholder coalition aimed at closing the investment gap for urban subnational climate projects and infrastructure. CCFLA provides a platform to convene and exchange knowledge among all relevant actors dedicated to urban development, climate action, and/or financing. GIF serves as the co-chair for the Enabling Frameworks Action Group, which seeks to strengthen legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks that boost climate finance for cities.

Aligned Set of Sustainability Indicators (ASSI)

With support from the GIF, the World Bank’s Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is spearheading an initiative that establishes an Aligned Set of Sustainability Indicators (ASSI) for the first time among recognized international standard-setters and infrastructure asset raters. 

The ASSI is a partnership with:

ASSI partnership

Getting to Zero

The Getting to Zero Coalition is a powerful alliance of more than 110 companies within the maritime, energy, infrastructure and finance sectors, supported by key governments and international government institutions. The Coalition is committed to getting commercially viable deep sea zero emission vessels powered by zero emission fuels into operation by 2030—maritime shipping’s moon-shot ambition. Learn more...