G20
Since 2000, DFI has been helping African governments to prepare positions for the meetings they have with G8 leaders at their annual summits, and to lobby effectively before the meetings for increases in debt relief. Since the expansion of the G20 into the principal head of state-level negotiating forum on global economic and financial issues, DFI has been assisting African governments to get the voice and needs of low-income countries heard at the G20. It has worked closely with and for the African Development Bank in reinforcing the African voice before and during the March and September 2009 London and Pittsburgh Summits, and has organised consultations of low-income country finance ministers for the UK government, in Freetown and London, to feed into its September 2009 report to the G20 on how to improve the adaptability and flexibility of the IMF and World Bank to support global growth.
Here are the communiqués resulting from the Freetown and London meetings.
Latest work DFI carried out in this area:
13-16 April - OIF Ministerial Meeting of 28 Low-Income Countries Backs Financial Transaction Tax
DFI continued its support for this ministerial forum, which met at the BWI Spring Meetings on 15 April. A highly successful press conference after the meeting resulted in extensive press coverage and discussion of Ministers’ conclusions with G20 Ministers and officials. The press communiqué can be found here. Further support to OIF is planned in Q3 around the BWI Annual Meetings.
27-28 January - DFI Resource-Person at GCAP G8-G20 Advocacy Planning Meeting
DFI was funded by the Heinrich Boell Foundation to attend this meeting of more than 100 global development CSOs, planning their engagement with the G8 and G20 for 2011, in order to analyse implications for cooperation between CSOs and low-income countries. For regular updates by the Foundation on the G20, click here.
