A mission staffed by a DFI consultant visited Cameroon to assist the government in beginning the migration of its database from CS-DRMS to the new Meridian debt management system. The mission trained Caisse Autonome d’Amortissement staff in how to validate their database and remove any errors from it before migration. Cameroon has an extremely large and complex database so this process is expected to take up to six months, after which another mission will go to Cameroon to complete the validation and migrate the database.

DFI presented at the Commonwealth Debt Forum in London, on The Changing Face of Financing and its implications for debt management. The presentation focused on the key new types of financing for low and middle-income countries: domestic debt markets; global bond markets; public-private partnerships; and new forms of less concessional South-South cooperation. It provided ideas on how mobilise the best examples of such financing; and how to restructure such financing in the event of a debt crisis. The presentation can be opened here. The rest of the conference covered natural disasters, transparency, contingent liabilities, and green and blue bonds, and provided the forum for launching the new Commonwealth Meridian debt management system of which DFI will be the sole distributor for non-Commonwealth countries. The conference can be found here.