International seminar to call for greater private sector role in infrastructure financing

Ways to boost private sector investment in infrastructure will be the focus of a regional seminar held by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD), the World Bank Group and the G20 Global Infrastructure Hub on 9-10 March in Athens. The event will bring together policymakers from 20 countries in eastern Europe, central Asia and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, private and institutional investors as well international experts on infrastructure project finance. They will discuss po
March 8, 2017 Read time: 2 mins
Ways to boost private sector investment in infrastructure will be the focus of a regional seminar held by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD), the World Bank Group and the G20 Global Infrastructure Hub on 9-10 March in Athens.

The event will bring together policymakers from 20 countries in eastern Europe, central Asia and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, private and institutional investors as well international experts on infrastructure project finance. They will discuss policies, regulatory practices, risk mitigation, and financing tools to incentivise private investment in infrastructure under private-public partnership (PPP) models.

The seminar will also present ways in which international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the EBRD, the World Bank Group and the Global Infrastructure Hub can help emerging-market PPP practitioners develop viable infrastructure projects.

IFIs are working to catalyse greater levels of private sector investment in infrastructure to help bridge the global infrastructure gap. Over the past two years, they have created a number of project preparation facilities (PPFs), including the World Bank Group’s Global Infrastructure Facility and the EBRD’s Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility (IPPF).

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