Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) can play a crucial role in marshalling large volumes of development finance to achieve economic development goals. Key state DFIs and investment bodies between them control assets and investments worth hundreds of billions of rand. These resources need to be harnessed as part of an overall development strategy, rather than acting in an uncoordinated manner. Through its coordinating role with other institutions, the Economic Development Department (EDD) will assist to leverage the resources and expertise of these entities to economic development outcomes. There is a need to co-ordinate certain major DFIs whose mandates substantially intersect, which sometimes results, for example, in separate decisions to finance the same organizations by different DFIs, without the knowledge of the other.