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In the last two months, DFI participated in 6 major events around the BWI Spring Meetings, led analytical preparations for the UN Development Cooperation Forum, helped the ONE campaign to hold donors accountable for aid, launched its latest book on Private Capital Flows to LICs, helped Uganda design a Partnership Policy, and conducted multiple regional and country capacity-building events. In the next few months we will develop proposals to reduce the debt burdens of Commonwealth Small and Vulnerable Economies; publish analyses for UNESCO and Oxfam of the impact of the global crisis on MDG spending; write the United Nations International Development Cooperation Report; and work with our regional partners to relaunch major capacity-building programmes on debt strategy and foreign private capital in Africa and Latin America. For more details, see below or read our E-NEWSLETTER
DFI provided a resource person for UNCTAD at this workshop, the aim of which was to improve DRC’s methodology for monitoring FDI and TNC statistics.
This focussed on policy coherence for the MDGs, the role of foundations, CSOs and decentralised cooperation; mutual accountability and transparency; and the gender impact of aid. DFI participated to share views on the issues and help finalise the UN Secretary-General’s report to the forthcoming DCF Ministerial Meeting in New York. For details of the meeting, click here.
This meeting, attended by representatives of developing countries, donors, CSOs and parliamentarians, discussed how to move forward on the Accra Agenda for Action commitment to increase international mutual accountability and transparency for aid. Based on the DCF review, it agreed a series of concrete steps to accelerate progress.
DFI participated in a DeMPA assessment mission led by the World Bank. It also met policy makers about continuing to provide its longstanding capacity-building support on debt management and potentially providing support on foreign private capital management
This report tracks whether the G8 have lived up to their pledges on aid to Africa. It was published drawing extensively on the HIPC CBP data where countries have evaluated the performance of their donors. To see the analysis, click here.
DFI prepared this review based on comprehensive surveys of sponsors of and participants in international and national MA and transparency mechanisms, conducted by the DCF and UNDP. It finds little progress and makes strong recommendations to strengthen accountability and transparency. To read the study, click here.
This second CIDA-financed mission organised by CEMLA reviewed the institutional framework for public debt management and produced a first draft law for Public Debt Management.
This workshop familiarised participants from 9 countries with the BWI Medium Term Debt Strategy Framework strategy tool for cost-risk analysis, DFI assisted by providing a resource person for the event.
DFI is assisting the Office of the Prime Minister to elaborate a Partnership Policy to define aid and “beyond aid” cooperation with its development partners. The first mission elaborated an issues paper describing the main policies to be adopted by Government. Future missions will help draft the Partnership Policy, discuss it with all stakeholders, and agree memoranda of understanding between government and partners on performance targets for aid delivery and cooperation beyond aid.
The Initiative for Policy Dialogue published a seminal study of how to avoid future developing country debt crises, to which DFI contributed a chapter on the experiences of Ethiopia. For more information click here.