OBF Hub for FfD4
Sevilla, June 30 - July 4, 2025

At Summit 2025 (April 22-24, 2025),180 leaders in the OBF community gathered in Cali, Colombia, to take stock of the most current and groundbreaking OBF initiatives world-wide, and to identify where the new frontiers and partnership opportunities are for the OFA community to keep scaling SDG-impact with OBF.

One of the collaboration areas that participants at Summit 2025 identified was to coordinate efforts for consensus building activities on the value of OBF for FfD4 in Sevilla, Spain, where the international financing architecture will be rethought, with the objective of finding financing structures that can better support achieving SDG targets that are currently off-track, in a context of diminishing ODA.

This OBF Hub site aims to support coordination efforts for the OBF community at FfD4 at Sevilla, Spain. On this site, organizations can express their support for scaling OBF in Ffd4 by endorsing the Cali Declaration; and can share the information of their OBF-related events in Sevilla, so that other OBF community members can join and coordinate with them.

FfD4: Context & Background information
Endorse the Cali Joint Declaration
Post your Ffd4 event on this site

OBF-Related Events at or around FfD4 in Sevilla, Spain

Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Information Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Information Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.

Targeting Barriers to Scale

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.

Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Skills & Capacity Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Collective Action Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.
Funding Barriers
Funding allocated at small scale on a project-by-project basis.Inadequate pipeline aligned to funder priorities.Access to seed funding for early stage concept developmentRegulatory and legal barriers.
Information Barriers
Limited understanding of relative merits vs. other instruments.Small body of evidence on value-for-money of instruments and benchmarks for pricing and risk.No common learning agenda.Detailed transaction information not shared or available publicly.
Information Barriers
Limited expertise inside commissioning organisations.High transaction costs and long lead times create disincentives for teams to test.Policies, systems, and processes not designed for outcomes-based commissioning (e.g., budgeting, procurement, paying investor returns).
Information Barriers
Fragmented funding landscape.Uncoordinated strategy and no platform(s) to coordinate priorities and test instruments at scale.
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