Overview: What will it take to make blended finance work for the Sustainable Development Goals?

Blended finance is emerging as an approach to help bridge the financing gap for the Sustainable Development Goals. This chapter contains an expanded synthesis of the report, highlighting the challenges and opportunities for blended finance and outlining key policy recommendations. The chapter presents an overview of the main building blocks of blended finance – concepts, definitions, blended finance architecture and instruments – and highlights important gaps and challenges that need to be addressed. It presents policy recommendations for the development co-operation community and outlines the OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles to improve blending efforts. It highlights an agenda for action for research work in this area going forward.