Our Development Focus
- Prioritize low income communities. Focus at least 60 percent of all projects in low-income and lower-middle income countries, and in fragile states.
- Catalyze $75 billion in investment. Invest more than $25 billion and mobilize an additional $50 billion by the end of 2025 across priority sectors including technology and infrastructure; financial inclusion; healthcare; energy; agriculture and food security; and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
- Empower women and other underserved communities. Support 12 million women and 6 million marginalized individuals.
- Introduce technology. Elevate innovation and technology across at least 50 percent of the DFC portfolio.
- Create jobs. Invest in projects that will support the creation of 100,000 local jobs and work to protect worker rights.
- Expand and diversify client base. Add 15 new clients each year with 30 percent of all clients based in developing countries.
Read the Roadmap for Impact
DFC’s Development Strategy provides a framework for maximizing impact by mobilizing $75 billion over the next five years to projects that will provide basic services to at least 30 million people in developing countries around the world.
Our Priority Sectors
Energy
Healthcare
Financial Inclusion
Food Security and Agriculture
Technology and Infrastructure
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
- Expand access to competitive, sustainable, and reliable electricity and promote energy security by diversifying power generation.
- Commit $10 billion to energy sector investments.
- Support 10 projects that increase a country’s domestic energy security and 2 projects that increase regional energy security.
- Provide access to electricity for at least 10 million people.
- Strengthen healthcare supply chains, access to healthcare services, and address COVID-19.
- Commit to invest $3 billion and catalyze $6 billion more from the private sector in health.
- Support 10 new healthcare facilities in low, and lower-middle income countries, and other underserved communities.
- Provide healthcare services to at least 2 million people.
- Invest in projects that increase access to finance for underserved populations including women, small businesses, and rural communities to spur entrepreneurship and prosperity.
- Commit to catalyze $6 billion directly and indirectly to support the 2X Women’s Initiative.
- Commit to $100 million in projects that include innovations in financial technology.
- Bring 100 companies into the formal sector.
- Promote nutrition, food security, and robust agriculture value chains, especially through innovations in agro-processing, storage, and industrialization.
- Commit $500 million and more than 50 investments.
- Commit 75 percent of projects in low and lower-middle income countries, and fragile stages.
- Support at least 1 million smallholder farmers.
- Invest in technology and infrastructure projects that improve information and communications technology, spur trade and economic growth, and enhance access to basic services.
- Commit $5 billion in technology and critical infrastructure.
- Support 10 major infrastructure projects in low and lower-middle income countries and fragile states that spur trade and economic growth.
- Provide internet access for 3 million people.
- Invest in projects that expand access to clean drinking water and improve sanitation services.
- Commit $250 million to WASH projects.
- Commit to 25 WASH projects in low, and lower-middle income countries.
- Provide access to potable water for at least 1 million customers.