Speed-dating

An exciting speed-dating session was held to learn about the best of financial and private sector development projects, products, and programs.

At this plenary, project officers engaged colleagues in 20-minute sessions to showcase 20 innovative, high-impact financial and private sector development projects across the World Bank Group. Attendees moved among sessions of their own choosing and learned about the issues shaping the design of the projects, the innovative solutions adopted, and the results achieved. This format allowed attendees to ask questions, learn from, and exchanged ideas with their World Bank Group colleagues.

Participating projects:

  • Assisting Indonesia’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis (Development Policy Loan with a Deferred Drawdown Option)
  • Building Sustainable Microfinance in Afghanistan: IDA and Afghanistan Reconstruction Multi-donor Trust Fund Microfinance Projects
  • Colombia Program: Subnational Doing Business, Doing Business Advisory, Subnational FDI Promotion, and Trade Logistics
  • Community-Managed Insurance for the Poor in Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Doing Business Gender Law Library
  • Efficient Securities Markets Institutional Development Initiative (ESMID)
  • Egypt Mortgage Finance Project (Investment Loan)
  • Financing Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure through Support to the India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited
  • Introduction of Automated National Interoperable Payment System Using Branchless Banking (Mobile Phones) in Maldives
  • Liberia Investment Climate Reform Program
  • Madagascar Integrated Growth Poles Project
  • Managing Disaster Risk through Alternative Insurance
  • MIGA Bank Loan Guarantees for Subsidiaries of Unicredit Group and Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG
  • Pilot Advance Market Commitment for Vaccines against Pneumococcal Diseases
  • Restructuring China’s Ningxia Rural Credit Cooperative Union into a Rural Commercial Bank (Fee-based Advisory Service)
  • SME Banking Benchmarking
  • Strengthening Corporate Governance Standards in Islamic Financial Services Institutions
  • Supporting SME Development in Turkey
  • Turkey’s Export Finance Intermediation Loan Series
  • Yemen Tax Simplification Project