High-level opening plenary session | Infrastructure financing and governance approaches to support resilience in an evolving international context
Nov 5, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 9:10 AM
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Description
As the global context of infrastructure financing evolves, how to advance the policy issues most important to ensuring resilient infrastructure can be financed, in both developed and emerging markets, is a critical consideration. With the fiscal space for infrastructure narrowing, it is essential that resilience remains a key policy issue and the momentum to finance is maintained and supported by good governance of infrastructure. The current context requires a revisit of how governance can support financing to be better secured for the various infrastructure resilience needs. Technological advances also impact how resilience of infrastructure needs to be addressed both in terms of development and operation to secure the necessary infrastructure.
This session will discuss how policy issues can be advanced to ensure greater infrastructure financing towards resilience with better public investment management and private capital mobilisation. The session will also discuss how these issues are being confronted in different countries, including the reforms countries make to strengthen infrastructure resilience through governance as well as innovative financial instruments.
