Abstract
Development finance institutions (DFIs) and export credit agencies (ECAs) have complementary mandates, instruments and risk appetites for scaling up clean energy finance in emerging markets and developing economies, yet joint transactions remain rare and largely ad hoc. Drawing on 16 interviews with senior practitioners, the brief proposes a three-barrier diagnostic: regulatory friction between the OECD Arrangement and ODA/DAC rules, institutional incentive misalignment between the ministries and metrics the two institution types answer to, and information asymmetry among sponsors and deal teams. It maps four targeted pathways to these barriers: a practical collaboration framework with model intercreditor arrangements and pre-cleared tranche structures, a curated case library hosted by the OECD or the Berne Union, country-technology pilots, and joint KPIs with shared mobilisation credit. Case studies from Kenya (Lake Turkana), Senegal (Taiba N'Diaye) and Angola illustrate concurrent and sequential DFI-ECA co-financing.
