Development Finance International
4 November - Workshop on Aid Policies, Kampala
DFI presented the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IUP) study discussing why and how developing countries should have Aid Policies to improve the quality and effectiveness of their aid in producing development results. Discussions were held at a workshop organised just before the UN Development Cooperation Forum Symposium in Kampala.
25-29 October - Sudan Debt Strategy Seminar, Khartoum
DFI facilitated a week-long Seco-financed seminar where officials from the Central Bank of Sudan and Ministry of Finance discussed their technical conclusions about debt relief and new borrowing with colleagues from other government agencies, and then drafted a debt strategy document for Sudan covering the period 2016-18. The strategy will be discussed and approved at political level early in 2016.
28 October 2015 - Education Aid Watch 2015
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) has published a new report which reveals a worrying failure in reaching education financing goals.
Taking stock of investment and aid levels in education since the goal-setting Dakar Education Forum fifteen years ago, Education Aid Watch 2015 checks delivery against promises made by donor countries and finds that they fall short of the pledged donor support for the Education For All and Millennium Development Goals.
In contrast, using GSW’s latest analysis of the budgets of 66 low-income and lower-middle-income countries, the report shows that more than half of aid recipient countries had increased the share of their budgets going to education since 2012.
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5-9 October - Helping Oxfam Fight Inequality, Dakar and Nairobi
The DFI/Government Spending Watch team provided resource people for two simultaneous Oxfam events to design programmes for fighting inequality. The first was a workshop in Nairobi for Kenya and Vietnam, which are soon launching major programmes on anti-inequality tax and spending policies funded by the Government of Finland; and the second was a regional workshop in Dakar for West Africa, planning a regional report on inequality, as well as programmes in 8 regional countries on tax and spending issues.
8 October - LICs Demand Climate Finance and Global Tax Reform
Francophone Finance Ministers from LICs met on 8th October in Lima, Peru, in the margins of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Amadou Ba, Minister of Economy, Finance and Planning of Senegal, represented by Mr. Abdoul Aziz Tall, Minister at the Presidency in charge of the Plan Sénégal Emergent, and co-chaired by Mr. François Maurice Gervais Rakotoarimanana, Minister of Finance and Budget of Madagascar.
