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Enhancing climate resilience in fragile and conflict-affected settings: Role of Peace Finance
Finance for Peace
How peace finance supports climate adaptation and mitigation in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
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Research, publications and evidence
Brief
New challenges require new types of partnerships: peacebuilding is meeting finance
Finance for Peace (Interpeace), Investing for Peace and UNCDF
Why peacebuilding organisations and financial institutions need each other, and what a working partnership between the two looks like in practice.
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PDF, 4 pages, 0.9 MB
Brief
A new approach to regional risk premiums
Boccanfuso, Sonno, Scrutinio and Zufacchi, in collaboration with Interpeace’s Finance for Peace initiative
Proposes a project-level approach to pricing risk in fragile regions, so that the conduct of a project, not only its country, determines its cost of capital.
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PDF, 2 pages, 1.7 MB
Research and evidence
Country risk premiums: what we know and why they are not working well
Finance for Peace (Interpeace)
Review of how country risk premiums are set and why they often misprice risk at project level, overcharging well-designed projects in fragile settings.
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Opens on financeforpeace.org
Research and evidence
Fostering peace-positive private sector development and investment in Mozambique
African Development Bank and Interpeace
Joint study by the African Development Bank and Interpeace. Summary of findings and recommendations on how private investment in Mozambique can be designed to strengthen, rather than strain, social cohesion.
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PDF, 16 pages, 8.6 MB
Research and evidence
Entry points for peace-aligned investments in northern Kenya’s frontier markets
Interpeace, Finance for Peace initiative
Exploratory study of prospective peace-aligned investments in Elgeyo Marakwet, Mandera and Marsabit: sectors, actors and the conditions under which investment can support local peace.
Research and evidence
SME facilities in fragile and conflict-affected settings: contributing to peace?
Josie Lianna Kaye, Benjamin Miller and Simon Ehmsen, TrustWorks Global, for Interpeace
What small and medium enterprise facilities do for peace in fragile settings, the constraints they face, and how peace-aligned capital could reach them. Authored by TrustWorks Global for Interpeace.
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PDF, 65 pages, 19.6 MB
Case study
Peace Bonds and climate finance
Mercy Corps and the Flood Resilience Alliance, with Interpeace
How peace-aligned structures can be combined with climate finance instruments so that adaptation and mitigation investments in fragile settings also reduce conflict risk.
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PDF, 18 pages, 0.8 MB
Research and evidence
Peace impact of private investments: evidence from multinationals’ investments in Africa
Finance for Peace (Interpeace)
Empirical review of how foreign direct investment by multinationals has affected peace and conflict dynamics in African host countries, and what distinguishes investments that support stability.
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PDF, 94 pages, 2.8 MB
Case study
Peace Bonds: bankable structures that can lower risk and enhance peace
Interpeace and SEB
Feasibility study of a new asset class: how a Peace Bond can be structured so that peace measures reduce project risk and improve the investment case. With SEB and partners; funded by UK Aid.