Development Finance International
10-12 December - Senegal’s Views on Turkey’s G20 Agenda and Public-Private Partnerships
DFI assisted New Rules for Global Finance to organise two recent events in New York and Washington DC. The first was a public panel in Washington, sponsored by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, in which representatives of the US government, developing countries and civil society examined Turkey’s agenda for its Presidency of the G20 in 2015, where Senegal spoke on Francophone countries’ priorities.
The second was a side-panel during the FfD events in New York, on Public-Private Financing Partnerships, at which Senegal presented its experiences of PPPs, together with representatives of the World Bank, civil society and the private sector. For more details of both events, consult New Rules’ website.
10 December - Financing for Development Partnership with ODI
DFI will partner with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in organising a conference financed by the Gates Foundation, to be held in Accra in March 2015. The conference will help to prepare the UN Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa in July.
DFI’s role will be to help mobilise senior developing country policymakers, and to organise plenary and technical sessions where senior developing country officials explain their financing strategies, as well as role-playing sessions demonstrating the complexities of mobilising suitable financing. DFI participated in the recent CAPE conference at ODI on 12-13 November during which preparatory meetings were held for the Accra conference.
9 December - Francophone Countries Speak at FfD Opening Informal Sessions
DFI assisted the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie to prepare with the participation of several Francophone developing country participants in the opening informal sessions of the Financing for Development (FfD) negotiations in New York, which will culminate in the FfD Conference to be held in Addis Ababa on 13-16 July 2015. Ministers and officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Senegal spoke on debt relief, partnerships for development and international and domestic tax policy.
4 December - Debt Strategy Assistance to Sudan
DFI will be funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Cooperation (SECO) to provide debt strategy assistance to the Government of Sudan. The assistance will consist of two missions and two workshops, reinforcing Sudan’s debt management institutions, training officials in debt strategy analysis techniques, and producing a strategy document to guide Sudan’s potential progress in clearing debt arrears, moving through HIPC and MDRI debt relief, and mobilising longer-term financing for its development.
1-3 December - Role of IMF and World Bank in Arab Transition Countries
DFI helped to facilitate a seminar and conference on the IMF and World Bank, run by the Bretton Woods Project and the Observatoire Tunisien de l’Economie (OTE), for around 50 government officials, parliamentarians, civil society and the media. DFI spoke on IMF technical assistance, IMF and World Bank transparency, and the role of the IMF and World Bank in social spending and social protection. For details of DFI’s interventions, please contact DFI.
