The Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank co-host an international Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development (2010 MIF) to be held in Paris on March, 4-5 2010 to the conference center of la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (la Villette), Paris, France.

The 2010 MIF, seeks to garner and highlight fresh ideas on the use of innovative financing mechanisms to solve development challenges at local, country, regional, or global levels, with the goal that successful innovations may be scaled up and replicated. It is dedicated to smart, fine-tuned, innovative financial mechanisms formobilizing, channelling, and spending funds for development issues.

The conference will invite to knowledge sharing by a wide range of practitioners and policy makers from developed and developing countries involved in development finance, including established and emerging donors, financial institutions (banks, asset managers,…), private sector actors (civil society, philanthropic organizations, for profit and social entrepreneurs), development academics and think tanks, developed and developing country governments, etc.

2010 MIF Objectives:

• Advance the agenda on innovative financial solutions for development;
• Facilitate knowledge-sharing and learning, including South/South learning, about which approaches work, which don’t, and how to design solutions to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness;.
• Spur the evolution of cutting-edge projects that apply innovative financial mechanisms to development challenges.

Register at http://en.fininnov.org/main.php?page=event-form