MOBILIST Policy Platform

The Mobilising Institutional Capital Through Listed Product Structures (MOBILIST) is a five-year, 2.9 million programme funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), under the International Multi-Disciplinary Programme Framework (IMDP). MOBILIST, which began its Inception Phase in June 2021, is FCDO’s first programme targeting listed markets for their potential to mobilise large scale investment flows. It seeks to partner with the financial services industry in developing listed products that can intermediate this capital, and in a form that responds to the prudential regulations and investment models that today define the scope of opportunity for institutional capital. Chemonics’ role in the programme primarily involves leading on the “Policy Platform” workstream, which runs parallel to other MOBILIST workstreams. The Policy Platform aims to identify principle policy themes supporting mobilisation in the public markets agenda; commission and disseminate research and policy advice based on these priority themes; and provide an advocacy role. The products supported by MOBILIST are viable investment opportunities in their own right, and at the same time contribute to systemic change in secondary markets that over time, can mobilise billions of pounds of funding for poverty reduction and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) delivery.