Methodology for surveys on blended finance funds and facilities

Two categories were identified for the purpose of this research: funds and facilities (see Table A2.1 for characteristics of each). An initial mapping was conducted to identify funds and facilities launched between 2000 and 2016, building on surveys by the Association of European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and World Economic Forum conducted in 2015, and on OECD surveys of amounts mobilised from the private sector by official development finance interventions (see Chapter 5). The mapping identified 356 blended finance vehicles that were set up in this time period, 167 of them facilities and 189 funds. Facilities are earmarked pools of development resources for blended finance in contrast, funds always include commercial capital. Within the funds, a distinction was made between structured funds and flat funds. Structured funds allow actors with different risk/return profiles to invest in different tranches. In flat funds, all shareholders hold the same return and bear the same risk as the other.