Our Strategy
- 1Build coalitions to modernize the global financial system so it provides debt relief, optimizes public resources, and ensures developing countries can access capital for both climate and development needs.
- 2Invest in research and data-driven analysis that informs and inspires innovative and effective policies.
- 3Build capacity within nonprofits and civil society organizations, especially in the Global South, to develop local reforms to respond to climate change and poverty.
- 4Help strengthen institutions held back by obsolete rules and procedures so they can reimagine a global financial system that can better address the 21st-century needs of the most vulnerable.
Why It Matters
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is transferred out of developing economies to pay interest every year (confirm timeframe), marking the worst debt crisis in history
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people currently live in economies that spend more on interest than on health and education
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per year is the estimated need for investing in sustainable development and the green energy transition
Featured Content
- To unlock the full potential of global institutions, we must reimagine our decades-old financial economic order.
- Two new studies published by the independent analytics firm Risk Control show that modern capital management practices would allow the World Bank to unlock up to $162 billion in additional lending for development and climate resilience without triggering a credit downgrade.
Impact Stories
- V20 Finance Fellows are being equipped with the tools and skills to help their countries prepare for the financial impacts of climate change.
- We are focused on confronting climate change, in part, by reimagining our global financing system to support the most vulnerable countries and communities – people like 60-year-old Kenyan farmer Julia Muroko.
Recent News
- Jul 29 2024U.S. Treasury Secretary, G20 Finance Ministers Highlight Work of Rockefeller Foundation-Supported Investor Leadership Network
- May 02 2024Getting It Done: Driving Finance Solutions for Development and Climate
- Oct 23 2023IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings Ministerial – Meeting The Moment Together: Driving Finance Solutions for Development and Climate