Shaping the future of blended finance: our roadmap to 2045
Today, we have published our Blended Finance Roadmap to 2045, a living resource that outlines how we can build a thriving blended finance market together over the next two decades.
The roadmap is not a plan for the Collective alone. It is an open invitation to practitioners, investors, policymakers, and funders to help shape a more effective and inclusive ecosystem. It sets out a shared vision and practical ways of working that organisations across the sector can adapt and build on.
Why a roadmap, and why now?
Blended finance combines public, private, and philanthropic capital to invest in and reach communities that would otherwise be left behind. It provides an efficient and equitable way to mobilise capital, enabling investors to take on risk they otherwise wouldn’t, helping markets become more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient.
But to reach its full potential, we need a shared direction. The Blended Finance Roadmap offers a starting point, identifying the priorities, principles, and partnerships that can help shape a thriving market over the next 20 years.
How we built it
Over the last three years, the Blended Finance Collective has grown into a global community of more than 250 members, including investors, fund managers, development finance institutions, philanthropic funders, policymakers, and network builders. Together, they represent the full spectrum of the blended finance ecosystem, and share a common goal: to unlock more capital for lasting social and environmental impact.
The roadmap was co-developed with our members and partners, drawing on insights from across the sector and priorities identified at our 2025 conference. These conversations explored how blended finance is tackling systemic challenges today, and what must change to scale its impact for the future.
You can read the full introduction and methodology here.
Our vision for 2045
By 2045, blended finance is widely understood and thoughtfully applied to maximise impact, using only the minimum catalytic capital required. It corrects market failures, transitions markets, and drives inclusive, sustainable growth.
Explore our vision for 2045 in full.
The five drivers of progress
To achieve this vision, we need to accelerate progress across five interconnected drivers to enable blended finance to reach maturity:
Scale: Build coordination across partners, grow deal sizes and cut complexity to make transactions faster and more efficient.
Replicability: Move from one-off innovations to adaptable, repeatable models built on shared frameworks, standards, and language, while keeping local relevance.
Mobilisation of capital: Increase catalytic capital from public and philanthropic sources and use it strategically to crowd-in private investment. Strengthen trust and alignment by closing communication gaps between stakeholders.
Policy and regulatory support: Create an enabling environment through consistent policy, clear regulation and smart incentives that build investor confidence and unlock collaboration.
Knowledge sharing and collaboration: Foster transparency, open data, and continual learning. Shared tools and case studies will help practitioners scale what works and accelerate collective progress.
An open invitation
The Blended Finance Roadmap is a living resource, designed to evolve as we learn, collaborate and test new ideas. We share it in the spirit of openness - welcoming critique, challenge, and fresh perspectives to strengthen its value for the whole sector.
It offers a shared direction for how the sector can grow together: aligning efforts, sharing lessons, and shifting mindsets to accelerate progress. We invite all blended finance practitioners, funders, and policymakers to explore the roadmap, engage with its principles, and apply them within their own work.
If you have case studies, insights, or resources to share with the sector, we’d love to hear from you.
For our part, the Collective will continue to convene practitioners and share knowledge across the sector. We’ll work with partners such as GAIL, Convergence, the GIIN, and the DFI Working Group to ensure learning is shared.
If you’re interested in partnering or contributing, we’d be glad to hear from you on blendedfinance@access-si.org.uk.
Read the full roadmap here and join us in shaping the future of blended finance.