Finance for Peace

What Finance for Peace does

Finance for Peace is a Geneva-headquartered (legally London-based) non-profit standard-setting organization that creates market integrity for peace-aligned investments. It was incubated by Interpeace from 2021 and launched as an independent entity on November 27, 2023, with primary funding from the German Federal Foreign Office and prior feasibility research supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The organization's core products are the Peace Finance Impact Framework (a voluntary investment management framework guiding investors toward peace impact and additionality), the Peace Bond Standard and Peace Equity Standard (certification criteria focusing on Peace-Enhancing Mechanisms), and the Peace Stamp (a certification awarded to projects meeting those standards). It also operates the Market Network, a convening platform linking issuers and project owners with investors (Finance Link) and with peacebuilders (Peace Link).

The organization serves four primary segments: project owners and issuers seeking credible peace-alignment certification to access capital in fragile contexts; institutional investors and asset managers seeking reliable standards to identify peace-positive investments and avoid peace-washing; peacebuilding organizations acting as Peace Partners implementing Peace-Enhancing Mechanisms; and governments, policymakers, and development finance institutions (notably African Development Bank, World Bank Group, IFC) seeking frameworks to catalyze private investment in fragile and conflict-affected regions. Engagements are concentrated in Kenya, Mozambique, and Côte d'Ivoire with a stated global mandate across the 57 fragile and conflict-affected countries where approximately 1.8 billion people live.

The business model is hybrid: primarily grant-funded (GFFO core funding, FCDO feasibility research grant) with emerging fee-generating potential through Peace Stamp certification and Market Network membership and services. The organization is sales- and event-driven, relying on direct engagement, high-profile convening (Africa Resilience Forum, Geneva Peace Week, World Bank Fragility Forum, Davos, UNGA), and thought leadership via an extensive research publication library. There is no public pricing for certification fees and no disclosed revenue. The team is small (approximately 5 employees including named senior leadership), and the board and steering committee are staffed by senior figures from IFC, PRI, World Bank, Goldman Sachs, and other institutional backgrounds, providing governance credibility.

Name

Finance for Peace

Legal name

Finance for Peace

Website

https://financeforpeace.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Finance for Peace is a Geneva-based non-profit standard-setting organization that establishes frameworks and certifications for peace-aligned investments, serving institutional investors, project owners, peacebuilders, and development finance institutions operating in fragile and conflict-affected countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Peace-aligned finance standards and certification

NAICS

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (525), Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Impact Investment & Development Investment Funds (BPADACAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable Private Markets (Impact PE/VC, Private Credit, Infrastructure) (FSAAALAG), Development Finance, Guarantees & Blended Finance Programs (BPADABAM)

Keywords

• Peace-aligned finance
• Impact investment standards
• Sustainable finance certification
• Peace bond frameworks
• Conflict-sensitive investing

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Peace Stamp Certification Fees: Revenue generated from certifying projects that meet Finance for Peace Standards. Project owners apply for certification, and if the project meets Standards, it receives a Peace Stamp.
2. Organizational Funding and Grants: Finance for Peace is financially supported by the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) and builds on feasibility research supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO). Additional support comes through partnerships with organizations like African Development Bank for joint research initiatives.
3. Market Network Membership and Services: The Market Network brings together investors, project owners, peacebuilders, and other stakeholders. Services include facilitating connections, knowledge sharing, and market education.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Finance for Peace sets global standards and certifies peace-aligned investments through the Peace Finance Impact Framework, Peace Bond and Peace Equity Standards, and the Peace Stamp certification process. It runs a Market Network that convenes project owners, investors, and peacebuilders, and conducts research on conflict-sensitive and peace-positive investment, primarily in fragile and conflict-affected countries.

Product overview

Finance for Peace is a standards-setting and certification organization that creates market integrity for peace-aligned investments. The core offering consists of the Peace Finance Impact Framework (a voluntary investment framework), the Peace Bond and Peace Equity Standards (for certification), the Peace Stamp (project certification), and the Market Network (convening platform). These products work together to provide standards, certification, and market connectivity for peace-aligned finance instruments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Peace Finance Market Network: A convening platform for all stakeholders in the Finance for Peace ecosystem, facilitating connections between issuers/project owners, investors, peacebuilders, policymakers, and researchers.
• Finance for Peace Standard
• Peace Stamp
• Peace Finance Impact Framework
• Peace Bonds

Products and services

• Market Network A convening platform operated by Finance for Peace that connects Issuers/Project Owners with Investors (Finance Link) and with Peacebuilders (Peace Link) to facilitate collaboration, market education, and policy advocacy for peace-aligned finance.
• Peace Stamp Certification A third-party certification awarded by Finance for Peace to projects that meet the Peace Finance Standards. Project owners apply by nominating a project, completing a Peace Plan with Peace-Enhancing Mechanisms (PEMs), engaging a Peacebuilder, and appointing an independent Verifier. The Stamp reassures investors against peace-washing by confirming that a project is peace-aligned.
• Peace Bond Standard A standard under the Finance for Peace framework covering the issuance of Peace Bonds. It sets market integrity requirements focusing on how the underlying project or investment is implemented, specifically the incorporation of Peace-Enhancing Mechanisms (PEMs) to increase community resilience, trust and engagement, and reduce risk.
• Peace Equity Standard A standard under the Finance for Peace framework covering Peace Equity investments, setting market integrity requirements focused on the implementation of projects and the incorporation of Peace-Enhancing Mechanisms (PEMs).
• Peace Finance Impact Framework (PFIF) A voluntary investment framework guiding government donors, development finance institutions, private asset managers, banks, and investors on how investment approaches can realize rigorous and benchmarked peace impacts. It sets out principles, guidance, and Peace Finance Standards that investors can use to validate, label, and certify their peace-aligned investments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Peace Finance market potential: USD 25-30 billion
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• International Finance Corporation (IFC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2024Participation in World Economic Forum and IFC partnerships event on 'Scaling investments in Northern Kenya.' Finance for Peace contributing to guiding principles on minimum concessionality and conflict sensitivity.
• World Economic Forum - Humanitarian and Resilience Investing InitiativecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Finance for Peace committed to 'Catalysing a Market for Peace Finance in Mozambique' as part of WEF HRI Initiative with potential to unlock USD 15 billion for frontier market investment. Participation in WEF events including Davos.
• African Development Bank (AfDB)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 October 2023Signed MoU to jointly promote economic investment and social development that positively impacts peace. Joint research on Mozambique and broader Africa engagement. Partnership includes technical support, advisory collaboration, and multistakeholder engagement.
• InterpeacecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFinance for Peace was incubated by Interpeace, an international peacebuilding organization that has worked on conflict resolution and peacebuilding throughout Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Latin America for 30 years. Finance for Peace was incubated for two years before becoming independent in 2024.
• Peace Dividend InitiativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as partner organization supporting Finance for Peace ecosystem.
• KOIS InvestingminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerImpact investment firm listed as partner supporting Finance for Peace.
• PeaceinvestminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal investment firm co-founded by Peter Higgs (also on Finance for Peace Board), designing targeted, project and context-specific risk-reduction measures.
• Fund for PeaceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as partner organization in Finance for Peace ecosystem.
• UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint publication with UNCDF and Finance for Peace on new types of partnerships. Active engagement in policy discussions at UNGA and Summit of the Future.
• UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint article with PBSO on partnership between peacebuilding and finance. Collaboration on innovative financing approaches.
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as partner organization supporting Finance for Peace.
• Government of KenyacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPledged to promote peace-positive investment. Hosted Interpeace research launch event in Nairobi. Committed to integrating peace initiatives into development agenda. Engaged through Ministry of Devolution and County Governments.
• Government of MozambiquecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMinistry of Economy and Finance providing guidance on joint research with AfDB. Engagement on peace-positive investment opportunities in Northern Mozambique.
• Permanent Mission of Germany to UN GenevacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint session during Geneva Peace Week on 'Peacebuilding and private finance actors: investing in partnerships that create peace.' Co-hosted policy briefing.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• International Capital Market Association (ICMA): Industry association that maintains the Green Bond Principles and Social Bond Principles — the rule-setting infrastructure for labelled bond issuance. Comparable as a bond-labelling standards setter, but incumbent across the entire bond universe rather than focused on peace.
• Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI): UN-backed responsible-investment framework with voluntary signatory commitments across asset owners and managers. Comparable as an ESG standards and stewardship-signatory body, but broader in scope and asset-class agnostic versus FfP's narrow peace focus.

Emerging players

• Impact Management Project (IMP): Multi-stakeholder initiative building consensus on how to measure, manage and report impacts. Comparable as a standard-setter at the intersection of finance and social/environmental outcomes, with peace as a possible future impact class.
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): Independent standards organization for sustainability reporting widely used by corporates and investors. Comparable as a sustainability/impact standard-setter that has achieved global adoption — a potential template for FfP's ambition to become a global public good.
• Peace Dividend Initiative: Organization focused on quantifying the economic returns of peace and mobilizing investment accordingly. Comparable as a partner in the peace-finance ecosystem but with an advocacy/research lens rather than a standards-setting mandate.

Direct peers

• Climate Bonds Initiative: Independent standards-body and certification scheme for green/sustainable debt. Most direct structural analog: it created a new asset class (green bonds) via labels, certification, and verifier networks — exactly the model Finance for Peace is replicating for peace-aligned bonds.
• Peaceinvest: Global investment firm co-founded by Finance for Peace board member Peter Higgs, designing targeted risk-reduction measures for investments in fragile contexts. Direct operational peer in peace-aligned capital deployment and a co-ecosystem participant.

Others

• Fund for Peace: Independent research organization producing the Fragile States Index. Comparable as a partner organization in the peace ecosystem providing fragility data inputs that could inform Peace Stamp verification, but not a direct market participant.
• Interpeace: International peacebuilding organization that incubated Finance for Peace for two years before it became independent. Comparable as the originating ecosystem and ongoing partner for peacebuilding expertise; not a financial-market peer.

Peers

• KOIS Investing: Impact investment advisory firm investing across blended-finance and impact themes. Comparable as an impact-investing practitioner and partner in the Finance for Peace network, though not a standards setter.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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