De-risking and Leveraging Infrastructure Investment. Helping the Private Sector Fill the Funding Gap 2024 | World Trade Center Institute (WTCI) | 26 February 2024 | Webinar

This webinar will be looking at the issue of investment for large-scale infrastructure and how such investments can be de-risked by international financial institutions (IFIs) like the multilateral development banks in order to draw in private sector finance thereby helping to fill the funding gap.

The webinar will provide a platform for IFIs to air their views and highlight the steps that they can take to de-risk these major investments to make major infrastructure projects more attractive and bankable for those organisations looking to invest in them. What can they do practically to de-risk and leverage in investment? How can the key issues of lack of funding, climate change and technology challenges be addressed and overcome to encourage investment in the major infrastructure the world badly needs?

Potential solutions from the IFI community could include:

• Risk mitigation: IFIs can offer guarantees or political risk insurance to lower the risk profile of infrastructure projects, making them more attractive to private investors.
• Blended finance: The strategic use of development finance and philanthropic funds to mobilise private capital flows to emerging and frontier markets, achieving more impact than either could on their own.
• Credit enhancement: IFIs can provide credit enhancements to infrastructure bonds, improving their credit ratings and making them more attractive to institutional investors.
• Technical assistance: IFIs can support project preparation and implementation, improving the quality of projects and the likelihood of success.
• Approaches to reducing the infrastructure investment gap to be discussed at the webinar include the use of Public-Private Partnersh

2024 Speakers

Manish Kothari
Board Member, FIDIC

Suraj Rana
Chair, FIDIC International Financial Institutions Committee (IFIC)

Şebnem Erol Mada
Practice Manager, World Bank

Vera Monika Masurat
Vice Chair, FIDIC International Financial Institutions Committee (IFIC)

Frederic Wiltmann
Head of MCDF Programme Team, Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance