Development Finance International
6-14 March – DeMPA Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
A joint World Bank /DRI mission visited Sarajevo to conduct a Sub-national DeMPA of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mission followed the sub-national DeMPA methodologies developed by the World Bank, conducted meetings with the various agencies involved in debt management and held a wrap-up meeting with the authorities and representatives of the international community.
24 February-6 March - Debt Management Mission to ECCB
DRI was invited by CEMLA to participate in the Demand Assessment Mission that was carried out in Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis. The mission took place within the context of Public Debt Management Capacity Building Program (PDP) and focused on reviewing Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) debt management technical capacity needs and preparing a Strategic Plan to support efforts to improve debt management among the Bank’s member states.
28 February - Debt Cancellation for Comoros
Comoros is to receive debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative. After significant and positive progress was made in the country’s economic management, Paris Club creditors have agreed an $8.06 million of debt cancellation for the small island archipelago which now becomes the 35th country to qualify for debt cancellation under the HIPC Initiative.
February 2013 - E-Newsletter Nº 6 - Recent and Forthcoming Activities
In the next semester, DFI will be involved in four new major initiatives: (with Oxfam) a Government Spending Watch report/website/database, analysing how much countries are spending on the Millennium Development Goals; (with New Rules for Global Finance) a Global Financial Governance report analysing the governance and impact on development of the G20, IMF, World Bank and FSB; (with OIF) a Development Financing Policy Network among low-income francophone countries; and (with UNDESA/UNDP) a programme to accelerate national-level Mutual Accountability on development cooperation and results. It will continue to provide capacity-building support to a wide range of countries, as well as conducting research on development cooperation, private financing, LIC development financing policies and MDG spending, and AfDB lending...Read more
2012-16 Latin American Capacity Building Programme in Public Debt Management
Managed by CEMLA and funded by the Secretariat for Economic Cooperation of the Swiss Government, the Capacity Building Programme in Public Debt Management (PDP) was launched in 2012 to deliver tailor-made capacity-building support in public debt management to Latin American countries. The five-year programme will aim at assisting LIC and MIC LAC countries to maintain debt sustainability and improve debt and macroeconomic management through improved national debt and new financing strategies capable to effectively respond to the impacts of the financial crisis. Initial Demand Assessment Missions have already been conducted to several countries and will be completed in Q1/Q2 2013.
