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We begin our Spring Meetings events with our cosponsored CSO event - Brazilian G20 Presidency: Priorities and Challenges of Finance Track, that will detail the Brazilian G20 Presidency's Finance Track priorities, including debt, and related issues. #SpringMeetings2024 #SMCSO2024
Private capital mobilisation (PCM) is an essential part to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—but data gaps stand in the way.📊
Reviewing a new report from PublishWhatYouFund, Gary Forster & Nancy Lee offer strategies to improve #PCM data ⬇
bit.ly/3VVK19G
Ahead of the 2024 Spring Meetings, Multilateral Working Group Co-Chairs, Axel Weber and Joaquim Levy lay out a path for stronger Bretton Woods Institutions in response to crises of the #GlobalCommons
Join Center for Global Development & PublishWhatYouFund for a special #SpringMeetings event where public & private stakeholders will discuss the importance of mobilizing private capital in emerging markets, how #MDB approaches can evolve, + more.
Join us in person or virtually 👇
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📣A fifth of Africa's pop. faces hunger, with debt & climate limiting efforts to achieve #SDG2 .
#WebinarAlert : 'Breaking the Cycle of Food Crises: Exploring the Financing Landscape'.
Join this webinar🗓️ April 10🕔 09-10AM EST
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3PNnqsb #HungryforAction
How can we improve the way we measure private capital mobilization? And how do we get more transparency?
🗓️Join us & Center for Global Development on 16 April with representatives from Treasury Department ODI IFC Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office & #GFANZ
Register: cgdev.org/event/improvin…
#MDBs #DFIs #Mobilisation
For decades, the World Bank has emphasized a need to shift focus from schooling > learning. Have its actions followed suit?
Biniam Bedasso & Justin Sandefur find that the Bank has struggled to pivot—but is succeeding in o/ areas like early childhood education.
bit.ly/3vtOHZB
MDBs and DFIs are being asked to mobilise more private capital to close the SDG and climate finance gaps. But what are the best ways to measure, disclose and assess their performance?
📅Join us and Center for Global Development on 16 April to discuss:
cgdev.org/event/improvin…
#SpringMeetings
📅Ahead of the #SpringMeetings , join Center for Global Development & Governors and Deputy Governors from Colombia, Chile, Mexico, & Peru as they discuss their strategies to solve critical issues affecting the region.
Ft: Banco República 🇨🇴, Americas Society/Council of the Americas, Banco de México, Banco Central de Chile.
RSVP!
bit.ly/3PDLwWa
'In 2003, a group of experts drafted the Tilburg Guiding Principles on the World Bank, IMF and Human Rights to codify the obligations...under international human rights law.' Aldo Caliari on the IMF and the human rights deadlock. digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/accountability…
To lead a reinvigorated private sector agenda at World Bank, President Ajay Banga should be open to taking greater risks at the institution.
Read Samuel Matthews & karen mathiasen's ideas for reasonably and responsibly enabling a more risk-tolerant culture:
bit.ly/3Th9kjI
Join today at 10 AM Eastern time for a webinar on AIDA's new report! Carolina Juaneda from BIC will be apart of it providing reflections and comments.
Blended finance's limited success in maximizing impact for development + climate mitigation raises concerns about its efficiency.
Charles Kenny explores the shortcomings of the current model, and calls for a root + branch reform 🛠️👇
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Our new blog asks how you can identify World Bank projects targeting gender equality, their location, sector, amount of funding and most importantly their impact. TL;DR You can’t
publishwhatyoufund.org/2024/02/whats-…
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📅 MONDAY: World Bank President Ajay Banga joins Masood Ahmed to reflect on his first eight months on the job— discussing progress made, obstacles confronted, and more. 🌐
RSVP to join us in person or online! ⬇
bit.ly/3vxvsOr
To help allocate new funds efficiently at the World Bank, juergen karl zattler proposes an enhanced GPG window. What would that entail?
🧱 An incentive & allocation system
🧱 Impact measurement & monitoring systems
🧱 Results system
Learn more ⬇
bit.ly/495xWlS
🎙️ #Brettonomics Episode 3 features Former US Executive Director of the IMF and Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, Charles Dallara, in a discussion analyzing the financing role of the IMF with a focus on sovereign debt crisis resolution🌐Stream now on any major podcast…