October 2018: Blended Finance at the World Investment Forum

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The UNCTAD World Investment Forum is the pre-eminent global platform for investment and development. The Forum devises strategies and solutions for global investment and development challenges. It facilitates multi-stakeholder collective action to stimulate investment in development. The Forum offers a unique opportunity to influence investment-related policymaking, shape the global investment environment, and to network with global leaders in business and politics, it biennually gathers more than 4,000 investment stakeholders from 160 countries.  Better Finance will be represented in the Blended Finance panel, highlighting the investment work with institutions on innovative structures to achieve impact and financial outperformance, alongside panelists from GIIN, UBS, Symbiotics, Blue Orchard, EIB, and UNCDF.

Issues for the debate:

  • How can blended finance help to mobilize and scale up private and commercial resources for sustainable development and climate action in developing countries?

  • Which types of blended finance instruments are currently in use?

  • What are lessons learned from different approaches to blending, monitoring and evaluation?

Read more at http://worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org/session/using-blended-capital-to-finance-the-sdgs/

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