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New initiative to assess and strengthen transparency among public development banks in Latin America

By Paul James and Ryan Anderton | Jul 28, 2026 | News

Publish What You Fund and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean – have announced the launch of a new initiative to assess and enhance transparency across public development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean. This 18-month project will engage a select group of public development banks throughout the region to improve the disclosure of information relating to their institution and the projects they finance.

Is the MDB Joint Report on private capital mobilisation sliding into irrelevance? Our updated scorecard

By Paul James | Jun 4, 2026 | Blog

The long awaited Joint Report, which compiles the private capital mobilisation (PCM) achieved by multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, was published last month. Our recent research highlighted that reforming the measurement and transparency of PCM are critical to maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of mobilisation. We prepared a scorecard focusing on six improvements that we were hoping to see in the new Joint Report. So how well did it do? This blog reviews the Joint Report, highlighting the key trends in PCM and assessing progress against our scorecard.

MDB climate finance in 2024: what does the latest data tell us?

By Ella Remande-Guyard | Apr 10, 2026 | Blog

Multilateral development banks collectively claim $437 billion in climate finance investments between 2021 and 2024. But $71 billion remains untraceable to projects. In this blog, Ella Remande-Guyard explains why this transparency shortfall matters, and how our updated MDB climate finance dataset can help to understand exactly where climate finance is being directed.

Any progress on measuring and disclosing private capital mobilisation? An MDB scorecard

By Paul James | Mar 30, 2026 | Blog

Private capital mobilisation (PCM) has become central to the case multilateral development banks (MDBs) make about their development impact. The way it is measured and disclosed matters more than ever. That’s why we’ve prepared an MDB scorecard to assess progress on our recommended improvements.

Behind the billions: New dataset exposes the $54 billion gap in MDB climate finance transparency

By Ella Remande-Guyard | Nov 10, 2025 | News

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) play a central role in the provision of climate finance for emerging and developing economies, yet questions remain about where their billions are going and how effectively they are being used. Publish What You Fund is today launching a new report and accompanying dataset, Behind the Billions: tracking the missing pieces of MDB climate finance data. The dataset is the first cross-MDB repository compiling all publicly available, project-level climate finance data disclosed by MDBs between 2021 and 2023.

Credit (risk) where it’s due

By Gary Forster | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog

After years of patient technical work by the small team of experts behind the Global Emerging Markets (GEMS) Risk Database, a significant breakthrough has just been announced. The use of GEMS data in credit risk assessments might just have unlocked $600 billion in new lending capacity for multilateral development banks.