Independent report

Evaluating CDC’s Financial Institutions Portfolio

This report is the first independent portfolio-wide analysis of CDC’s investments in financial institutions and gives new insights into the structure, distribution and impact of CDC’s portfolio.

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  • CDC is 100% owned by the UK Government. It is a Development Finance Institution (DFI) which helps solve the biggest global development challenges by investing patient, flexible capital to support private sector growth and innovation

  • longer-term evaluations of CDC’s impact are critical to help FCDO and CDC better understand how, and in what contexts, CDC’s investments deliver tangible, sustainable development impact on people, businesses, sectors and overall economies. This information is crucial to help CDC target investments and track results in those businesses and sectors where it can have the most impact

  • the report includes findings from an evidence review and a portfolio wide analysis of CDC’s investments in the financial sector. It has been structured to facilitate learning across CDC and draws out lessons across a number of themes aimed to inform the development of CDC’s 2022 to 2026 strategy, to help CDC better manage development impact within its existing investments and improve the systems it has in place for tracking the impact of its portfolio

Published 4 March 2021