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What happens when catalytic finance reaches early-stage agribusinesses?

For Ziweto in Malawi:

📈 30% revenue growth
💼 Youth jobs
📦 Stronger supply chains
🌍 National expansion

Watch their story ➡️ youtu.be/OKIG6uY3HDk?...
From Local Startup to Stock Exchange Listing | Ziweto’s Story
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November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A new commentary signed by global leaders, including UNCDF, calls for coordinated, long-term investment to scale the ocean economy. 🌊

🔓 To unlock ocean-positive solutions, we need stronger pipelines, de-risking tools & blended finance at scale.

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/h...
Scaling the Ocean Economy
Prince Albert II of Monaco proposes building blocks for a coordinated strategy to deliver sustained “blue” investment.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
As the UN’s investment fund for the most vulnerable economies, UNCDF takes the risks others cannot.

At #COP30, we reaffirmed our role as first-movers, risk-absorbers and market on-rampers to ensure climate finance flows to communities.

🎥 Watch the video 🔽

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Climate Finance Where It Matters Most: UNCDF at #COP30 🌍
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November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Closing the climate finance gap starts where climate impacts are greatest: the local level. 🏘️

At #COP30, UNCDF met with governments & partners to advance climate finance that reaches local governments, MSMEs & frontline communities.

Thank you to all who joined us. 🌍
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
As Uganda’s credit market evolves, integration, not stand-alone innovation, is becoming the deciding factor for inclusive finance.

UNCDF shared insights from the 10X Programme showing how shared standards and API interoperability can unlock lending for MSMEs traditionally left out.
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
How do we build agri-food systems that are sustainable, equitable & climate-resilient? 🌱

Join today’s session with proforest & UNCDF to connect corporate sustainability, local adaptation & finance innovation, backed by de-risking and blended finance.

#COP30
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ziweto’s story shows what catalytic capital can do in early-stage markets.

UNCDF’s concessional loan unlocked new shipments, restored liquidity and helped the agribusiness scale nationwide.

🎥 Watch how ➡️ youtu.be/OKIG6uY3HDk?...
From Local Startup to Stock Exchange Listing | Ziweto’s Story
YouTube video by UN Capital Development Fund
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November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
How can climate and disaster risk finance better serve women and vulnerable communities across the Pacific?

📍Join today’s #COP30 event at the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion to get some answers.
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Join us at #COP30 today!

Women, youth and Indigenous leaders are driving frontline solutions across the climate–peace–security nexus.

We’ll explore how increased finance for inclusive approaches enables local solutions to scale.

📺 Scan the QR code to watch live!
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
At #COP30, UNCDF is proud to join the Ocean Action 2030 Coalition, strengthening global efforts to scale ocean-positive investment. 🌊

With catalytic and blended finance, UNCDF unlocks capital for regenerative blue economies.

Learn more ➡️ uncdf.live/ocean2030
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🌊 Solomon Islands is piloting a new model of reef-positive finance to support local enterprises that protect coral ecosystems and strengthen livelihoods.

Learn more ➡️ uncdf.live/reef-finance

#COP30

@globalfundforcoral.bsky.social, @worldwildlife.org, @undp.org, @unep.org
Solomon Islands to pilot a new model of reef-positive finance
As the world looks to COP30 in Belem to deliver ambitious breakthroughs for climate and nature, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Global...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ghana and other African countries are working with UNCDF, @afdbgroup.bsky.social & @ndcpartnership.bsky.social to develop:

🟢sustainable finance strategies
🟢green/blue bonds
🟢local climate finance mechanisms
🟢guarantees
🟢blended facilities

Watch live ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUDP...

#COP30
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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🌍 Day 8 at the NDC Partnership Pavilion

Hear from 🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇸🇩 Sudan, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇬🇭 Ghana, 🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe, 🇫🇲 the Marshall Islands, 🇪🇨 Ecuador and others advancing policy alignment, climate resilience, NDC implementation and private capital mobilization.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🌱 Turning climate policy into climate outcomes requires alignment.

At today’s #OneUN session, we explore how linking #NDCs and #NAPs with multilevel action can open channels for #ClimateFinance and ensure communities receive the support they need.

#COP30
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Renewables are on the #COP30 agenda.

The REF #Zimbabwe is unlocking capital:

✅ $1M for a 1.1MW solar-powered cold storage facility
✅ Less diesel
✅ Lower costs
✅ Reliable power for 480 smallholder suppliers

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November 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Pacific is ready to scale climate ambition if finance can flow.

Join us at #COP30 as we explore how the Pacific can move from

✅ grant-based climate action

📈 to mobilizing private sector finance

🟢 for green growth and resilient investment.

uncdf.org/cop30
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
How do we crowd in private capital for #LocallyLedAdaptation?

Join us at the #COP30 Nordic Pavilion as experts from Uganda 🇺🇬, São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹 and UNCDF share solutions that strengthen resilience in early-stage and last-mile contexts.

🗓️ 14 November
🕘 9:00–9:45
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
At #COP30 today: UNCDF is joining a session on Sustainable Ocean Planning and Management for a Healthy Ocean," convened by the COP30 Presidency. 🌊

Ocean governance, climate, and investment are deeply connected.

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November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Catalytic forest finance can shift risk, unlock investment, and support indigenous-led solutions.

NOW at #COP30, UNCDF's Kawtar Zerouali explores:

🟢 results-based payments,
🟢 crowding in private capital,
🟢 community-driven bio-economies.

📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/341ZIsc...
Forest Pavilion at COP30 – 13Nov AM – Forest finance and trade
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November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🌴 Small islands are climate frontliners but are too often left behind in global finance.

Today at #COP30, Yabanex Batista joins Island Innovation, @jellsmoor.bsky.social + partners to share how catalytic finance helps close the adaptation gap.

📍CARICOM Pavilion, Blue Zone – Belém
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Droughts are lasting longer, hitting harder, and returning faster.

UNCDF is financing climate adaptation at the local level to help communities invest in water systems, agriculture, and livelihoods that withstand a changing climate. 💧

🎥 See adaptation in action: youtu.be/o7KKPs8pDz0?...

#COP30
Financing climate adaptation in Tanzania
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November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In Ghana, UNCDF is showing how local finance drives national resilience.

Through catalytic investments and training, 13 districts now manage climate funds that have reached over one million people.

🌱 Mary’s story shows it’s working. #COP30

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Putting people first: Investing in locally led climate-smart solutions in Ghana
Mary Ocansey is a climate-smart smallholder farmer based just outside the Ghanaian capital of Accra, in Ada East District. She used to strug...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#COP30 kicks off today in Belém - the gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region.

The top 3️⃣ UNCDF forest initiatives:

🌳 Pro-Congo Programme
🌳 Kibira and Kahuzi-Biega Peace Parks in Burundi 🇧🇮 & DRC 🇨🇩
🌳 Tiger Landscape Investment Facility

For more: uncdf.org/cop30
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A solar-powered water system in remote Bangladesh means 84-year-old Nayon Tara Chakma no longer walks 2km uphill for water. 💧

Through LoCAL, local govts turn climate finance into real services for 2.2M+ people.

#LocallyLedAdaptation in action

➡️Read the full story: uncdf.live/local-bd
Driving capital to the local level brings vital services to remote villages in Bangladesh
a locally devised investment in a solar-powered water system has brought water to Chakma’s door. This basic but vital infrastructure investm...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What does inclusion look like in digital finance?

It looks like 250+ professionals, many of them women, equipped to lead policy, regulation, and innovation across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. 🌍

🎥 Watch the webinar: ow.ly/jtqU50XaukF
Scaling Impact Through Women in DFS: A Webinar with UNCDF and Digital Frontiers Institute
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November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM