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.
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G7 DFI Strategy Priorities
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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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Blogs
Canada’s Leadership in Development Finance
Fifty years ago in 1975, leaders from the industrialised world gathered in Paris to discuss the 1973 oil crisis, financial shock, and subsequent global recession that knew no borders. Canada joined the following year. What has since become known as the G7 saw its member countries agree to gather annually to discuss the world’s most pressing political and economic challenges. The effort highlighted global cooperation.
The Next Steps in FinDev Canada’s G7 DFI Strategy
We are living in a time of economic tectonic plates shifting beneath our feet. As we return to volatility, development finance may see increased demand from the private sector in emerging markets and developing economies, as it navigates the shocks of development aid budget decreases and tightening fiscal belts.
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