Noticias
5-13 June – DeMPA Mission to Chad
N’djamena hosted a joint World Bank-DFI DeMPA mission to assess the country’s debt management performance. This mission was held in a context of the Chadian authorities’ willingness to reach completion point and mobilise significant resources to finance infrastructure projects. The mission concluded that Chad’s debt management shows (i) fragmented structures, (ii) poor coordination and information sharing, (iii) poor staff capacity and high turnover, (iv) non-existent comprehensive and reliable data, and (v) weaknesses in treasury management.
4 June - LIC Ministers Call for ADF-IDA Replenishment Increase
On behalf of the Francophone ministerial network, Finance ministers from Burundi, DRC and Senegal have jointly appealed to the Governors and Alternate Governors of ADF-IDA contributing countries to urge them to support a significant real terms increase in the ADF-IDA replenishments in order to assist developing countries in implementing the post-2015 agenda.
30 May - Seminar on Domestic Resource Mobilization at the AFDB Annual Meetings
DFI chaired a side event of the African Development Bank Annual Meetings in Marrakech titled “South-South Technical Cooperation on Domestic Resource Mobilization to halt illicit financial flows from Africa”. Co-organized by New Rules for Global Finance and African Development Bank Institute, this side event focused on the need for capacity building in relation to the strain of illicit financial flows on revenue collection and to domestic resource mobilization for national development. The event also discussed the importance of exchanging good governance experience in domestic resource mobilization through South-South Cooperation.
29 May - DATA report 2013 Released
ONE released its DATA Report 2013 which examines how developing countries - with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa - are progressing in reaching the Millennium Development Goals’ targets. ONE also just released a Special Report Tracking Development Assistance, which holds European governments to account for their promises to the world’s poor.
23 May - London Launch of GSW 2013
Government Spending Watch was successfully launched in London on 16 May. The 2013 report, website and database were presented at a seminar hosted by Overseas Development Institute and attended by around 50 participants from NGOs, research and donor institutions. You can now access the video of the event here and download presentations from DFI 
, Oxfam and South Africa's People's Health Movement . #govspendwatch
