International Financing for Sustainable Development

↪ Contribute to shaping the architecture of international financing for sustainable development and inform international debates to ensure that countries’ vulnerabilities are better reflected in the allocation of concessional financing

↪ Assess the effectiveness, complementarity and coherence of financing instruments

↪ Promote the diversification and mobilisation of financing sources

• Participation in major international forums (IMF, World Bank, United Nations, OECD, Finance in Common Summit),  with active advocacy for greater consideration of vulnerability  in the allocation of development finance. 
• Contribution to FfD4 (Seville, 2025) : participation in preparatory work and organisation of three sessions included in the conference programme, focusing on the allocation of concessional finance, domestic resource mobilisation, and the vulnerability of least developed countries.

• Publication of Patrick Guillaumont’s book on the effective use of a multidimensional vulnerability index.
• Study on the financial profile of development banks, conducted in collaboration with Peking University and the French Development Agency (AFD).
• Analysis of the role of Caisses de Dépôt in mobilising domestic private resources for development financing. This study, conducted for the Caisse des Dépôts Group, was presented at the Forum’s annual conference in Nouakchott and serves as a reference for policymakers and practitioners.

• Partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to develop a tool for integrating vulnerability into financing decisions (dynamic index, conceptual framework, training).
• Mapping of financial support provided by multilateral development banks to public development banks, carried out with AFD and with the support of the International Development Finance Club and the FiCS Secretariat.
• Database on international public financing for climate change adaptation (2019–2023), covering commitments from both international institutions and bilateral donors.

• Organisation of Chatham House–style discussions on “Attacks on aid: reasons, responses and prospects.”
• Participation in the Financing One Sustainable Health working group, co-chaired by Jacky Mathonnat (Ferdi/Cerdi) and Agnès Soucat (AFD). At the One Health Summit, Aurore Pelissier (University of Burgundy, Ferdi Senior Fellow) presented a project for an observatory on the efficiency of district hospitals.