
Karan Raj Chaudhary
Climate Finance and Private Sector Specialist at UNDP Asia-Pacific; Regional Specialist for UNDP Asia-Pacific Hub and Advisor on Sustainable Finance at UNDP India
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May 29, 2026
Episode 22: Financing Resilience, Inclusion, and Development with Karanraj Chaudri
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10:47Nirav KambathiHOST
Could you lay it out for us, Karan, in practical terms, I mean, uh, what are the first two to three steps you recommend a government or development partner takes to operationalize that shift?

Karan Raj ChaudharyGUEST
You know, I think over the last perhaps decade or so, we've seen so much discussion on blended finance.

Karan Raj ChaudharyGUEST
It's really taken on a very central, uh, sort of space in the development finance discourse.

Karan Raj ChaudharyGUEST
You know, whether it's at sort of multilateral fora, whether, you know, at, at forums like G20 or sort of climate COPs and others.
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33:20Nirav KambathiHOST
A-a-are there any lessons that you'd like to share with our listeners so that they could keep those in mind as, as they sort of venture out and create similar financing facilities of their own?