The Blue Peace Financing vision is to promote access to capital for non-sovereign entities by using
water as an entry point for multi-stakeholder cooperation frameworks, which will lead to more
sustainable economies and peaceful societies (a peace dividend). Hence, investing in Blue Peace
supports the achievement of the SDGs while also transforming water from a potential source of
conflict into an instrument of cooperation and peace.

The Blue Peace Financing Initiative begins by transforming the policy and regulatory framework of the participating non-sovereign entity (the local government) through capacity building and technical assistance (TA).

The resulting deliverable is the multisectoral local investment plan; based on this, the non-sovereign entity can then issue a Blue Peace (Municipal) Bond and gain access to capital. The mobilized capital will be used for the implementation of projects under the local investment plan, including infrastructure development.

This will allow the non-sovereign entity to upgrade its livelihood assets and its own creditworthiness, thus enabling it to scale up its capital mobilization activities. Hence, the Blue Peace Financing Initiative’s theory of change is transformation cycle that leads to a self-reinforcing process of mobilizing public and private capital.

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