Criterion Institute - Community-Centered Blended Finance: Towards a Transformative Approach

This report from Criterion Institute examines ways that blended finance is currently being deployed to address unequal dynamics of power and promote flourishing communities, and offer some new perspectives and alternative approaches to using this tool. Blended finance has a role to play in reframing how risk is determined, how value is measured, and whose expertise is important in investment. If wielded differently, blended finance can serve to reshape the power dynamics inherent to the structures and terms of investment processes that carry embedded bias. Explore