Development Finance International
25 October - 1st November - Dakar Welcomes an MTDS Francophone Regional Workshop
DRI coordinated for the World Bank Debt Management Facility (DMF) a regional MTDS training workshop in Dakar, Senegal, facilitated by World Bank and DRI consultants. The 25 participants from 11 Francophone countries and institutions were asked to prepare their databases before the event according to specific data requirements. They were then able to finalise their own country databases, ready for the introduction to the toolkit developed to assist governments to develop an MTDS. The training also familiarised them with the analytical tool through a series of exercises enabling them to quantify and measure the performance of alternative debt management strategies under different shock scenarios.
20-25 October - MTDS Mission to Cape Verde
DFI joined a joint World Bank/IMF mission to Praia, Cape Verde. The mission took place at the request of the Ministry of Finance, and focused on providing technical assistance in debt management strategy formulation. The mission shared the Bank-Fund framework for Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) development, and jointly with a government team, applied it to Cape Verde. In the process, the team provided training on basic cost-risk analysis, data preparation, and preparation of a debt management strategy document.
21-24 October - GSW @ UN Women Expert Meeting
GSW was asked to attend the UN Women Expert Group Meeting (EGM) in Mexico City entitled ‘Challenges and Achievements in the implementation of the MDGs for Women and Girls’, to present findings of a paper into ‘gender responsive’ expenditure tracking, commissioned by UN Women. The GSW and other papers presented formed the basis for an overall EGM report, of which the main recommendations will be presented at the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (10th-21st March 2014).
9-18 October - Bosnia Hosts a DeMPA Mission
A joint World Bank-DRI mission visited Sarajevo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina to assess debt management activities in the country based on the DeMPA methodology developed by the World Bank. The mission met with staff from various institutions involved in debt management such as the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank and presented its preliminary assessment to the authorities. The final report will shortly be finalised and submitted to the Bosnian State authorities.
11 October - Global Governance and Impact Report
DFI was on the panel at the launch of the Global Governance and Impact Report at the BWI Spring Meetings chaired by U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee. The result of a collaboration between 10 organisations and individual contributors, this comprehensive report analyses the governance and impact on sustainable development of the G20, IMF, World Bank, FSB, OECD and UN.
