Development Finance International
5 April - UN DCF Commissions Papers on Standards for Private/Blended Cooperation, New York
The UN Development Cooperation Forum has commissioned DFI to prepare two policy briefs on effectiveness and impact standards for private and blended (joint public and private) development cooperation. The first brief, due in June, will define the potential content of such standards and will be presented at a side event at the Addis Ababa Financing for Development conference. The second, in August, will define how the standards might be monitored, and will be discussed at the DCF symposium in Uganda on 4-6 November 2015.
4 April - DfID Commissions Debt Position Paper
DFI has been commissioned by the UK Department for International Development to prepare a position paper on debt policy in the context of preparing the Financing for Development conference. It has also been asked to provide inputs on the 2016 review of the BWI Debt Sustainability Framework.
23-31 March - Tanzania DeMPA Mission
A joint World Bank, DFI and MEFMI mission visited Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to conduct a DeMPA assessment of debt management. The mission met with officials from various Ministries and Central Bank and prepared a report that will be submitted for peer review and then to the Tanzanian authorities for comments. It is anticipated that the final report be completed by June/July 2015.
17-18 March - Financing the Future: Fresh Perspectives on Global Development
DFI helped convene an international conference in Accra, Ghana, looking at how development finance can meet the challenges of the new era given its changing nature and the proliferation of new sources. Opened by H.E. Seth Terkper, Ghana’s Minister of Finance, and organised by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and a coalition of global partners, the event aimed at updating participants on key debates and policy processes related to financing the SDGs, providing an overview of recent and likely future trends in the purpose, use and impact of international public finance, and at providing alternative perspectives on international public finance and its use.
23-27 February - GCE Commissions Education Aid Watch and Domestic Finance Toolkit
DFI participated in the Global Campaign for Education General Assembly in Johannesburg, following which GCE commissioned DFI to coordinate and be lead author on the preparation of two key tools for their future advocacy. The Education Aid Watch report 2015 will assess the performance of donors in providing education-related aid, and their readiness to fund the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. A Domestic Finance Toolkit will help GCE members worldwide to analyse national budget revenue and education spending, and design national advocacy programmes to increase progressive revenue and spending.
