The purpose of this note is to showcase how INFFs can help enhance the consistency and alignment of all financing in support of national climate goals. Section 2 locates climate finance in the broader financing for development context and provides an overview of relevant stakeholders. It also outlines several outstanding challenges to effectively finance climate action, which a more integrated approach to financing could help address. The focus is on national-level issues; however important global challenges are also highlighted given their impact on national-level policymaking. Section 3 guides practitioners in applying an INFF to climate goals, highlighting key questions to ask, existing tools, processes, and mechanisms, and providing country examples to illustrate suggested practices.

About INFF technical guidance documents

In response to the considerable and growing interest from countries to receive further guidance and support to design the INFFs, additional technical guidance documents, built on existing global guidance, are now published to provide practical support to INFF country-level implementation.

The technical guidance documents are tailored to specific country contexts, SDG sectors, and financing policy areas, all benefiting from initial insights and country experiences. The documents are intended to assist policymakers in the identification of sectoral and country group challenges, and policymaking that finance the national sustainable development objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the INFFs.

The technical guidance documents strengthen the feedback loop between country-level implementation on the one hand, and global guidance work and technical assistance and capacity development efforts on the other. The documents will continue to be living documents, and will be updated as country experience, insight, and learning about the application of the INFF approach to the challenges of financing the SDGs at the country level keeps progressing.