How public and private institutions might work better together and propose concrete solutions to accelerate effective development financing.
Introduction
The international conference, jointly organised by Center for Global Development, the CDC Group and the Centre for Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute Geneva, is expected to launch needed research, generate productive debate, and foster long-term collaboration across the political and professional spectra.
Objectives
There are a lot of issues to be tackled to get the private/public financing synergy to succeed. We will discuss the design of financial instruments for blending and how financing can be structured to maximize the development leverage of foreign and domestic funds. We will look for tools that assess whether public blended funds are in fact scaling up, not substituting for, private investment. And we will look for measurement methods to assess the development impact of the investments, both prospectively and retrospectively.
Among the specific questions we have posed to participants are:
Target Audience
By mixing academic sessions with a series of high-level policy panels, the conference will bring together practitioners who work in private sector development and academics who are involved in setting up the institutions and procedures that will govern blended finance.
The draft programme will soon be available and will include the various sessions and speakers. Information will be updated regularly.
The final programme will be available on this registration page in September 2018.
The 2-day conference will take place on 8-9 November 2018 at the Graduate Institute Geneva, in auditorium Ivan Pictet (2 Chemin Eugène-Rigot, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland).
The conference on "Blended Development Finance and the New Industrial Policy" is co-organised by:
