DFI and Oxfam will jointly launch the new Government Spending Watch (GSW) initiative in Washington DC on 19 April and in London on 16 May. The meetings will launch the draft executive summary of the GSW 2013 report, website and database which aim to galvanise campaigning and advocacy for greater spending on the MDGs, by providing analysis and data on spending in 55 countries, as well as a campaigning and advocacy hub for spending and transparency. More details of the launch and the analysis will appear on this site and on the GSW site which will go live on 19 April. 

Following a mandate from Francophone Ministers in Tokyo in October 2012, OIF and DFI have agreed an enhanced partnership on development financing issues. This will establish a technical network of senior officials from Finance Ministries from OIF IDA-eligible member states, which will be supported by country case studies and multi-country research on managing development finance, quarterly newsletters and a website. The technical network (which will hold its first meeting in April) will help member states to learn from one another about best practices in financing development, and to reach agreement on key issues for the Ministerial Network’s advocacy and lobbying activities.  

DFI a fait partie du panel de discussion du séminaire de lancement d'un nouveau rapport de l'Overseas Development Institute, The Age of Choice, Soulignant la présence croissante de pourvoyeurs Sud-Sud, cette étude examine le nouveau contexte du financement concessionnel pour les pays en développement, et s'interroge: ce contexte offre-t-il un choix plus varié aux pays en termes de financement et assure-t-il une plus grande proximité avec leurs priorités nationales? La vidéo de cette rencontre est disponible here. 

Does transferring aid money direct to the accounts of national institutions and organisations, i.e. ‘’localising aid”, strengthens the sectors in which this method is applied? This is the question raised by a new report from ODI which examines the impact of localising aid on the main 3 sectors of society- the state sector, the private sector and civil society- in stable low-income, middle-income, and fragile states. The study concludes that while not by any means a panacea, localising aid is a tool that cannot be ignored in any aid strategy aimed at strengthening state systems.

In the current context of severe budget cuts jeopardizing donor aid contributions, a new report from Eurodad and commissioned by CONCORD’s Aidwatch examines all different sources of development finance and their characteristics, while analysing their impact on poverty and sustainable development. The report divides sources into the following six categories: domestic sources, private capital flows, ODA and philanthropy, external government borrowing and lending, illicit capital flight, and new “innovative” financial resources.

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. 

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.

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.

Durante el próximo semestre, DFI participará en cuatro iniciativas principales: (con Oxfam) la creación de un informe/sitio Web/base de datos para la Observación del Gasto Público, analizando cuánto gastan los países en el cumplimiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio; (con New Rules for Global Finance) la elaboración de un informe sobre Gobernanza Financiera Mundial, analizando la gobernanza y el impacto sobre el desarrollo del G20, el FMI, el Banco Mundial y la FSB; (con OIF) el establecimiento de una Red de Políticas de Financiamiento para el Desarrollo entre los países francófonos de bajos ingresos, y (con ONU-DAES/PNUD) la elaboración de un programa para acelerar a nivel nacional la Responsabilidad Mutua en la cooperación para el desarrollo y sus resultados. También continuará brindando apoyo a una amplia gama de países para el fortalecimiento de las capacidades, y llevando a cabo investigaciones sobre la cooperación para el desarrollo, el financiamiento privado, las políticas de los países LIC sobre financiamiento para el desarrollo y gasto para el cumplimiento de los ODM, y los préstamos del BAfD...Más detalles

Con la gestión de CEMLA y el financiamiento de la Secretaría de Cooperación Económica del Gobierno suizo, en 2012 se dio inicio al Programa de Fortalecimiento de las Capacidades en Gestión de la Deuda Pública (PDP en inglés) para brindar a países latinoamericanos apoyo a la medida de sus necesidades para el fortalecimiento de sus capacidades en la gestión de la deuda pública. Este programa, de cinco años de duración, estará dirigido a ayudar a los países LAC de ingresos bajos y medios a mantener la sostenibilidad de su deuda y mejorar la gestión de la deuda y la macroeconomía mediante mejores estrategias nacionales de deuda y nuevo financiamiento que permitan responder con efectividad a los impactos de la crisis financiera. Las Misiones Iniciales de Evaluación de la Demanda, ya realizadas en varios países, se completarán en el primer/segundo trimestre de 2013.