At the invitation of Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Casa de América in Madrid, Spain was the venue for the Forty-ninth Regular Meeting of the Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE) General Assembly, that took place from Monday through Wednesday, May 20 – 22, 2019. This is the summit meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean development banking system where key aspects and trends affecting the region’s development and its financing, together with the role of those institutions, are analyzed. This year theme was : Experiences and Financial Cooperation Europe-Latín America

IDFC members representatives including Alexis Bonnel, IDFC Sherpa from AFD, Johannes Scholl, in charge of the Energy division & Latin America Financial Sector at KfW and Javier Diaz Fajardo, President of Bancoldex, actively participated in the event and discussed best practices to help aligning all financial flows with the Paris agreement and promote sustainable development investment  with  Javier Manzanares, Deputy Executive Director, Green Climate Fund (GCF), Jeannette Ruiz, President, Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, Eric Usher from UNEP FI and Justine Leigh-Bell, Director Market Development, Climate Bonds Initiative 

The Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE) is the international organization that represents Latin American and Caribbean development banking. It was created in 1968 and, at the invitation of the Government of Peru, established its permanent headquarters in Lima, Peru’s capital city.The programs, projects, activities and services the Association promotes and carries out are aimed at fostering the unity and strengthening the joint action and coordinated participation of the development banks and financial institutions in the region’s socioeconomic progress.