During his first official visit to Africa this week, DFC CEO Scott Nathan met with political and business leaders and signaled the agency’s commitment to mobilizing investment to improve food security, and expand access to critical services from electricity to technology. DFC has almost $10 billion of active investments in…

According to the Global Poverty Project, 80 percent of the estimated one billion individuals who live with a disability are based in the developing world. Because living with a disability can make it harder to participate in the workforce or to gain access to essential services, there is a significant…

By Andrew Herscowitz Last month at G7, President Biden announced the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), a bold commitment to dramatically scale up investment in emerging market infrastructure projects. DFC is proud to play a key role in helping countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America build the…

Like many of the small businesses in Honduras, Doris Beauty Salon in Tegucigalpa suffered a significant loss of business in 2020 when COVID-19 emerged, leading to lockdowns and social distancing. “My business was at its best and we were growing rapidly, but with the pandemic everything went downhill,” said owner…

This week DFC CEO Scott Nathan traveled to Eastern Europe and announced multiple investments to provide immediate support to Ukrainian families and businesses that have been displaced by the war. These latest investments build on a long U.S. history of mobilizing investment in the region, and make use of some…

By Nafisa Jiwani Two years ago, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) launched a robust response to the COVID-19 pandemic, investing in multiple projects to expand access to lifesaving medical equipment, services, and vaccines, while also committing to a longer-term focus on global health systems resilience and pandemic preparedness. While…

“Investment is precisely what our planet needs, and investment is exactly what DFC was built to do,” DFC CEO Scott Nathan told a group of more than 200 businesses, nonprofits and NGOs who joined DFC’s Earth Day town hall on April 22, Investing in a Sustainable Future. The event, which…

An innovative DFC transaction to raise money for marine conservation in Belize by restructuring the country’s sovereign debt has won Environmental Finance’s Bond Award for its financial innovation and environmental impact. Environmental Finance, a news site covering sustainable investment and green finance, said that the transaction enabled Belize to commit…

By Nafisa Jiwani, Managing Director for Health Initiatives at DFC. Two years after the world went into lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, many developing countries need investment to ensure they are better prepared for future health crises. While limited manufacturing and distribution capacity have kept COVID vaccination rates…