Funding and Financing Solutions for Infrastructure

These pages outline solutions and share resources for funding and financing infrastructure programs and projects. We’ve identified 26 levers governments can apply to improve bankability and attract more private capital:

• Revenue (funding)-type levers: These 5 levers generate cash flows to fund programs and projects
• Risk management-type levers: These 7 levers refer to contract clauses and financial instruments that balance the risk-reward profile to make a program or project more attractive to investors
• Financing-type levers: These 14 levers are financial instruments for capital in the form of equity, debt, or a combination.

Learn more about these, and see examples, on the revenue, risk management, and finance lever pages.

Also included on these pages are resources for funding and financing green and circular infrastructure, financing large national infrastructure programs, and more. We invite you to explore the resources and contact us with any questions.

Explore our library of 100+ case studies

In our case study library, you can browse, filter, and search 100+ global, real project case studies that used revenue, risk management, and financing levers to make projects bankable.

Funding and financing green and circular economy solutions

In late 2021, we prepared a compendium for the G20 that examined how the decarbonisation agenda is being funded and financed worldwide, and which approaches hold the most promise for progress. Our work also presents global case studies of funding and financing of green and circular infrastructure, which reveal important lessons about how to make new infrastructure more circular and the role of infrastructure in supporting a lower-carbon and more circular economy.

View the Innovative Funding and Financing Green and Circular Infrastructure compendium and case studies.

Emerging solutions for financing national infrastructure programs

We’ve also analysed how governments finance large infrastructure programs – especially during ‘exceptional times’ like natural disasters, financial crises, and pandemics – to identify good practices. The Financing National Infrastructure compendium outlines emerging approaches by national and sub-national governments to fund and minimise the cost of financing infrastructure, accelerate time to market, and leverage private capital in a way that is scalable and replicable.

View the Financing National Infrastructure compendium and case studies.

Funding and financing framework

The framework will help you better understand the factors that support and drive private sector investment. This work was created by the GI Hub for the wider industry as well as the G20 Infrastructure Working Group. The accompanying G20 Infrastructure Working Group Reference Note provides additional insights and background analysis

Download the GI Hub Innovative Funding and Financing Framework

Download the G20 Infrastructure Working Group Reference Note