16 January - Guidance Slides 2

1. STRENGTHENING THE
LOCAL DIMENSION OF
BLENDED FINANCE
Co-hosted by OECD, The European Centre for
Development Policy Management (ECDPM) and The African
Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)
Wednesday 16 January, 10:00-11:15
At the Private Finance for Sustainable Development
Conference (PF4SD)

2. Principle 3
a) Support local development priorities.
Proposal: Identify mechanisms to consult local stakeholders and ensure anchorage to
local priorities, and review modalities to more systematically take account of political
economy local realities and dynamics.
b) Ensure consistency of Blended Finance with the aim of local financial market
development.
Review some of the approaches that blended finance from MDBs/DFIs have followed
to crowd in local private finance, through local private institutions as well as local
public institutions.
c) Use Blended Finance alongside efforts to promote a sound enabling
environment.
Review the practice of some of the donors to link development finance, (blended
finance in particular) to reform processes.