Development Finance International
15-24 February - DeMPA mission to Mozambique
A joint World Bank/DRI visited Maputo, Mozambique during the month of February, 2017. The objective of the mission was to assess the existing legal, institutional and technical environment in which debt management takes place in Mozambique using the DeMPA methodology. The mission met with government officials at the Ministry of Finance, Banco de Mozambique, Tribunal Administrativo, and the Stock Exchange and prepared a document that will be submitted for peer review and then to the Mozambican authorities for comments.
24-27 January - Fiscal Justice Capacity-Building Workshop, Lilongwe
DFI helped to facilitate an Oxfam Southern Africa workshop which aimed at designing programmes to achieve fiscal justice at regional and national levels. DFI presented on global, regional and national trends in tax policies, budget financing (aid and debt), and spending policies, and assisted Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe to identify their priorities for future country and regional work. Among the key priorities emerging were a regional index on fiscal justice and inequality, incidence analysis, tax incentives, gender budgeting, and extractives revenue-sharing.
16-27 January - MTDS Mission to Senegal
DFI participated in a training and technical assistance mission at Senegal’s National Debt Committee in order to design a 5-year medium-term debt management strategy (MTDS), over the 2017-2021 period. The mission found that Senegal’s level of debt has grown at a steady rate since 2006. It also observed an increasing emphasis of commercial debt in its portfolio, despite the country’s priority to mobilise concessional resources to finance the projects laid out in the national development plan (Plan Sénégal Emergent).
The mission also found that the National Debt Committee’s significant technical capacity to develop a debt strategy was thwarted by a few issues: difficulties in following up the implementation of the strategy; a clash with other sectors’ strategic orientations fixed by the MTDS, communication and dissemination concerns, as well as problems with the publication of the strategy which remains to be approved by the political or ministerial authority.
5-14 December – Reform Plan Mission in Tajikistan
A joint World Bank/DRI visited Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with an aim to develop a debt management reform plan and present it to the authorities. The Reform Plan included the following areas: medium-term debt strategy, debt sustainability analysis, developing the domestic market, debt data and recording. The Plan also included a logframe to implement the proposed actions as well as a training program.
The mission met with government officials at the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, and other institutions involved in debt management.
10 December - Second Tax Policy Workshop Identifies Priorities for Tax Policy Changes
DFI facilitated the second OIF technical workshop on tax policy in Abidjan from 6 to 9 December. The workshop was organised in partnership with the government of Côte d’Ivoire, as well as CREDAF, the IMF, LSE, OECD, UEMOA, the University of Paris, UNDP, and the World Bank. Director-Generals and ministerial fiscal policy advisors from 14 Francophone countries attended the
