The Inter-American Development Bank will hold its annual business seminar on Financing Public and Private Infrastructure Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean on April 20 and 21 at its Washington, D.C. headquarters.
The two-day event, primarily but not exclusively aimed for businesspeople, will be held in the main auditorium of the IDB Conference Center (1330 New York Ave, NW). The seminar will showcase recently approved operations and explain how projects are developed and how to better compete for contracts resulting from the IDB’s multibillion-dollar annual lending program.
IDB Private Sector Coordinator Carlos Guimaraes will make a presentation on infrastructure trends in Latin America at 9:50 a.m. on Thursday, April 20. IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno will deliver a keynote address at a luncheon for participants that same day.
During the seminar, senior policy and project specialists will discuss case studies on energy, transportation, urban development, housing, disaster prevention and water and sanitation, focusing on programs and projects financed by the IDB and its affiliate, the Inter-American Investment Corporation.
Presentations will also cover topics such as working with the IDB Group, private sector lending, financial instruments, capital market tools, consulting needs and loan syndication, as well as recent changes in procurement policies and anti-corruption measures.
The IDB, the leading source of multilateral financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, generates about 13,000 contracts a year for goods and services from its operations. With an annual lending capacity of $9 billion, the IDB’s pipeline for the next two years includes $3.3 billion earmarked for transportation projects, $1.6 billion for urban development, $1.6 billion for energy, $1.1 billion for sanitation and $568 million for environmental management and natural disaster prevention.
The briefing is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 20. Registration will open at 8:30 a.m.