The United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and accompanying Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are facing a funding gap of at least US$42 trillion. Nowhere is this gap more evident than in Africa, which despite progress in recent years and huge growth and development potential, lags far behind the rest of the world in key human development and economic indicators, and it is here that a significant portion of spending to meet the SDGs will need to made. Given that Africa lacks sufficient capital of its own (a problem of the developing world at large, which has 80% of the world’s population but only 20% of its assets, massive amounts of international funds will need to flow into the region, particularly as it still lacks a widespread sophisticated banking and investing infrastructure.