What you will find in this document

Blended finance was built to draw private capital toward the hardest development challenges, yet for every dollar committed through blended mechanisms only $0.38 of private capital has been mobilised. This session asked why, and what it would take to do things differently.

This learning document gathers the insights of the discussion: why capital funds islands rather than oceans, what shifting from performance to robustness looks like in practice, and the operational levers, from investment readiness to new intermediary architectures, that can help finance serve transitions rather than isolated projects.