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This high-level roundtable will bring together senior policymakers, development partners, and private sector leaders to explore how outcomes-based financing (OBF) can help maximize the impact of development finance across the SDGs. Building on real-world examples in sectors like education, health, employment, and climate resilience, the session will highlight how OBF aligns with FfD4 priorities — from strengthening country systems and coordination, to mobilizing blended finance and enhancing accountability.
The event will also mark the announcement of the OECD’s forthcoming global guidance on OBF and invite Member States and partners to endorse this milestone toward more effective financing. Finally, the session will serve as a platform to shape an OBF initiative proposed under the Seville Platform for Action — a concrete step toward sustaining collaboration and scaling outcomes finance beyond FfD4.
This high-level roundtable will convene senior representatives from government, multilaterals, philanthropy, and the private sector. Co-organizers and speakers include representatives from the Governments of Colombia, India, Kenya, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, as well as British International Investment, the European Investment Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UBS Optimus Foundation, and the Outcomes Finance Alliance Secretariat (Levoca LLC).
The Outcomes Accelerator was conceived by address the key barriers impeding the market and catalyze the market’s capacity to translate learning from pilots into replication and scaling of impact.
Despite this growing interest outcomes-based financing approaches, the ecosystem remains in an early-learning phase.
Most transactions are a first-of-a-kind demonstration projects, often in a specific theme or geography, with long lead times. Outcomes payers, service providers and investors confront steep learning curves as parties gain experience. Donor agencies and domestic governments in developing countries remain constrained by low capacity, limited access to the skills and expertise and a range of institutional barriers and cultural disincentives that limit that testing and use of outcomes-based approaches.
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