Also, blended finance carries some inherent risks, for instance by fostering the practice, proven to be ineffective, of tying aid-funded procurement to companies in the donor country. Their motivations are different from those of traditional donors and their operating mechanisms and modalities may be largely unfamiliar to most development practitioners. The emergence of an increasingly innovative finance agenda will oblige donors to deepen their understanding of private sector involvement in development. It may be important, for example, to explore the distinctions between activities designed to ultimately promote and benefit the local private sector, on the one hand, and those that seek to harness private sector resources for projects (or businesses) that have development-oriented goals, on the other.