Development Finance International
2 July – E-Newsletter - Recent and Forthcoming Activities
In the last two months, DFI participated in 6 major events around the BWI Spring Meetings, led analytical preparations for the UN Development Cooperation Forum, helped the ONE campaign to hold donors accountable for aid, launched its latest book on Private Capital Flows to LICs, helped Uganda design a Partnership Policy, and conducted multiple regional and country capacity-building events. In the next few months we will develop proposals to reduce the debt burdens of Commonwealth Small and Vulnerable Economies; publish analyses for UNESCO and Oxfam of the impact of the global crisis on MDG spending; write the United Nations International Development Cooperation Report; and work with our regional partners to relaunch major capacity-building programmes on debt strategy and foreign private capital in Africa and Latin America. For more details, see below or read our E-NEWSLETTER
8-11 June – UNCTAD/COMESA Workshop on FDI/TNC Statistics for DR Congo
DFI provided a resource person for UNCTAD at this workshop, the aim of which was to improve DRC’s methodology for monitoring FDI and TNC statistics.
3-4 June - UN Development Cooperation Forum High-Level Symposium, Helsinki.
This focussed on policy coherence for the MDGs, the role of foundations, CSOs and decentralised cooperation; mutual accountability and transparency; and the gender impact of aid. DFI participated to share views on the issues and help finalise the UN Secretary-General’s report to the forthcoming DCF Ministerial Meeting in New York. For details of the meeting, click here.
2 June - International Mutual Accountability and Transparency on Aid: Next Steps, Helsinki.
This meeting, attended by representatives of developing countries, donors, CSOs and parliamentarians, discussed how to move forward on the Accra Agenda for Action commitment to increase international mutual accountability and transparency for aid. Based on the DCF review, it agreed a series of concrete steps to accelerate progress.
30 May-10 June - Mauritania DeMPA Mission.
DFI participated in a DeMPA assessment mission led by the World Bank. It also met policy makers about continuing to provide its longstanding capacity-building support on debt management and potentially providing support on foreign private capital management
