FinDev Canada's Leadership: The 2025 G7 DFI Strategy

The 2025 G7 Development Finance Institutions (DFI) strategy is aligned with Canada's Presidency.

Earlier this year, the G7 development finance “baton” was officially passed from our Italian counterparts, the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), to FinDev Canada.

Ongoing collaboration among the DFIs is important to advance development issues facing emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), and so continuity has been core to the transition.

This year, FinDev Canada has three objectives for the G7 DFI strategy:

Leadership

Amplifying Canada as a leader in development finance through the private sector across priority issues including infrastructure and energy, critical minerals, and food systems
Legacy

Strengthening collaboration among the G7 DFIs to better address the interconnectedness of the issues and the existing work in progress
Leverage

Mobilising private capital and harnessing the innovation of the private sector to support market-based solutions in EMDEs

Stronger together

Our greatest strength lies in our cooperation with G7 DFIs. Together we have loans and equity outstanding of approximately US$65 billion – sizable capacity to advance sustainable private sector growth and positive development impact. DFIs are uniquely positioned to meet the private sector where it is – leveraging their core or concessional capital, each with its own risk-return dynamic, to de-risk opportunities across key sectors.

To best represent the story of these shared objectives, strengthen policy coherence, and communicate our value, we developed the D7 logo to support the G7 strategy.

G7 DFI Strategy Priorities

Private Capital Mobilisation

The G7 DFI strategy is aligned with Presidency priorities and includes concrete action and deliverables under the goal of achieving private capital mobilisation:

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Infrastructure and Energy

Spotlight on DFI investment and financing in infrastructure and energy, in EMDEs that aligns with the Partnership for Global Invesment and Infrastructure (PGII).
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Critical Minerals

Explore the potential role of DFIs in enabling critical mineral security and development.
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Food Systems

Enhance the resiliency of global food supply chains to ensure long-term food security and economic development in EMDEs.
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