Regions
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa holds vast potential and requires significant investment to build critical infrastructure, expand access to electricity and technology, and address major challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere plays a critical part in promoting regional stability and security.
Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is home to more than half the world’s population and several of the fastest-growing economies globally, yet is in great need of private sector investment to continue and accelerate its upward growth trajectory.
Europe and Central Asia
Private sector investment has helped lay the groundwork for a more prosperous, stable future in Europe and Central Asia since the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
Sector Priorities
Infrastructure and Critical Minerals
DFC’s investments in critical and digital infrastructure create jobs, foster economic growth, improve access to essential services, and facilitate trade and regional connectivity.
Small Business and Financial Services
DFC is supporting small businesses that spur entrepreneurship and drive free and dynamic marketplaces.
Food Security and Agriculture
DFC investments in agriculture help protect the world’s most vulnerable populations and mitigate the impacts of growing food insecurity and malnutrition.
Energy
DFC helps expand access to energy to drive development and promote economic growth and job creation.
Cross-Cutting Priorities
Climate Finance
DFC supports investment in climate mitigation, resilience, and adaptation in the developing world, with a focus on nature finance and diversifying the critical minerals supply chain.
Economic Empowerment
DFC prioritizes investments in women and other underrepresented groups to advance economic security and the well-being of all people.
Initiatives
2X Women’s Initiative
The world’s largest emerging market isn’t a country or region; it’s the world’s women.
Portfolio for Impact and Innovation
DFC’s PI2 initiative aims to bridge the financing gap for early-stage social enterprises with innovative solutions to challenges facing the developing world.
Global Health and Prosperity
Resilient health systems are fundamental to global prosperity, stability, and security.