Grants and Other Transfers

Grants and other transfers include finance mechanisms that enable financial flows between sources of finance and recipients or beneficiaries seeking funding for sustainable development objectives.  Unlike other investments, this finance is provided with either no expectation of financial return to the source of finance or below market concessional rates of financing. This includes philanthropical finance as well as remittances or other forms of financial transfers with development or conservation objectives.  

  1. Official Development Assistance - Bilateral and Multilateral 

  2. Private or Corporate Philanthropy

  3. Remittances

  4. Conservation Trust Funds

Business and Markets

Economic Instruments