Advisory / Advocacy services
DFI’s second key area of work is in providing advisory and advocacy services. Clients have included more than 40 developing and developed country governments, many of the major international organisations (including the African Development Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, European Commission, OECD, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNDP, UNECA, UNESCO and World Bank), and many civil society coalitions and individual organisations (including Make Poverty History, Jubilee 2000 and many members of its successor campaigns, EURODAD, the UK Aid Network, ActionAid and Oxfam).
The key focus of our advocacy work has been in helping developing countries increase their voice in international negotiating forums related to financing development.
Our advisory work has provided concrete recommendations for improving the international financial architecture and institutions, global debt relief and new lending mechanisms, and global foreign investment and aid policies.
We have also advised many developing countries on how to improve their own national policies and strategies on debt issues, foreign private capital flows and public finance.
