Alternative Finance Lab

Building partnerships and collaboration models that enable the use and scaling of alternative finance and emerging technologies in development.

We focus on convening and aligning private sector actors, governments, and development partners to address development challenges using alternative finance and emerging technologies. The pillar includes the design of partnership models, funding approaches, and coordination mechanisms that connect ideas, resources, and implementation pathways.

Generating insight and actionable foresight to support more effective and innovative ways of addressing development challenges.

We produce the knowledge that underpins AltFinLab’s work – from research and analysis to learning from programmes and pilots. This pillar helps organizations understand where new approaches can add value, how they can be applied, and informs strategic, policy, and programming decisions.

Building the skills, institutional readiness, and networks needed to understand and apply alternative finance and emerging technologies in development.

We combine training, applied learning, and practitioner networks to help organizations move from understanding to application – strengthening their ability to design and implement new approaches, while enabling ongoing collaboration and knowledge exchange across countries and sectors.

Enabling ideas to move from experimentation to adoption and scale using alternative finance and emerging technologies.

We support organizations to test, refine, and apply alternative finance and emerging technologies in development, helping translate promising approaches into practical use. By connecting experimentation with implementation pathways, this work strengthens the ability to design, deploy, and expand solutions, while aligning the actors and resources needed to support their growth.