Description
The Global Infrastructure Forum aims to enhance coordination among multilateral development banks and their development partners to better develop sustainable, accessible, resilient, and quality infrastructure for developing countries, and focuses on how governments and their working partners can attract more resources for infrastructure.
This 2018 forum is hosted by ADB and held in the Laguna Villas in Bali, Indonesia on October 13, 2018.
ADB focals:
Lotte Schou-Zibell
Chief of Finance Sector Group
Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department
Timothy Meaney
Principal Infrastructure Finance Specialist
Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department
Objectives
- Enhance coordination among multilateral development banks and their development partners to better develop sustainable, accessible, resilient, and quality infrastructure for developing countries;
- Focus on how governments and their working partners can attract more resources for infrastructure;
- How efforts to develop infrastructure have contributed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris goals; and
- Identify key take aways from the sessions and actions to be taken.
Target participants
Participants are expected to be about 500 delegates from governments, private sector, academia, civil society, as well as from MDBs and other international organizations.
Outputs
- Outcome Statement, Annex to Outcome Statement: Action Progress
- Mobilization of Private Finance by Multilateral Development Banks 2017: Joint Report
- Press release
- Publications, including blogs
How to register
Registration is closed.
Event organizers/partners
The forum is jointly organized by the following mulitlateral development banks in close partnership with the United Nations (UN):
- African Development Bank
- Asian Development Bank
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- European Investment Bank
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Inter-American Investment Corporation
- Islamic Development Bank
- New Development Bank
- United Nations
- World Bank
Presentation materials
See presentation materials from this event on ADB Knowledge Events.