'The international financial system needs to think less about the harvest, and more about the seed being planted.'

UK Mission to the EU 🇬🇧🇪🇺 hosts Amb. Jestas Nyamanga, Melinda Bohannon, Heidy Rombouts, Sander Tordoir and San Bilal on how the international financial system can deliver for the #SDGs

Our ⁦ECDPM 🔎 🌍⁩ team is proudly supporting BE Presidency of EU efforts and conference on health equity &UHC opened by Minister Gennez. I’ll moderate prestigious panel on health financing and social participation

👋We are approaching the end of #Inclusiveness2023

Our way forward❓ Let San Bilal ECDPM 🔎 🌍 ask
🔹Papa Amadou Sarr AFD_en 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
🔹Laure Blanchard-Brunac European DFIs
🔹Simon O'Connell SNV World CEO & #PN co-Presidency
🔹Fiona Ramsey EU International Partnerships 🇪🇺

#StrongerTogether #financegap #SDGs

Development finance institutions are looking to human rights-based approaches to guide their investments

With Karim Karaki & San Bilal, I analysed the good practices and hurdles of their implementation

We came up with 10 recommendations. Find them here
👉ecdpm.org/work/integrati…

📝 New Policy Brief 📝

The EU is lagging behind in the use of debt swaps: a powerful way of providing additional resources to developing countries.

San Bilal and Karim Karaki provide concrete options for Europe to achieve impact.

Read the full brief 👉 bit.ly/49CLMvT

Multilateral debt reform has been slow since the pandemic🌱

But debt-for-nature swaps are emerging as a unique tool to combine financial and climate action

Karim Karaki Alfonso Medinilla San Bilal propose 3 ways to scale them up in developing countries

👉bit.ly/3u54JYT

Defiant regional leaders resist the road map to EU membership via Financial Times
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Last week, I reflected on the outcomes of the #newglobalfinancingpact Summit held in Paris during an interview with a Nigerian tv station. I noted that the global #climatefinance system needs to be transformed into one that is more inclusive.

What can development finance institutions in Europe do to encourage the flow of desperately needed finance for climate adaptation and resilience?

Join us on Monday to discuss ECDPM 🔎 🌍 Hanne Louise Knaepen Irene Monasterolo San Bilal Daniel Adeoluwa Adeniyi

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In the latest Blog, San Bilal recalls his experience at the Finance in Common Summit in Cartagena.

Reflecting on critical issues in Development aid, climate finance, #MDB 's reform, climate change and gender.

A must read 🔹 bit.ly/44Qq2Km

Angola agrees deal with Chinese state bank to ease debt crunch via Financial Times
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In a new paper cited below, Mikaela Gavas, Andrew Rogerson,Karim Karaki and San Bilal present six options to leverage EU concessional finance. A thread🧵

There is a dire need for food security & climate-resilient and sustainable #FoodSystems

In their latest commentary, Francesco Rampa San Bilal
Cecilia D'Alessandro Karim Karaki argue that effectively implementing special drawing rights should be part of the solution

👉bit.ly/3sRNomg

One of the most significant moments of the finance meetings in Marrakech (9-15 Oct) 👇🏼 San Bilal Irene Monasterolo Daniel Adeoluwa Adeniyi Nepomuk Dunz Jérôme HEITZ David Kuijper Michael Rattinger Iyabo Masha ADB Climate Team African Development Bank Group European Investment Bank World Bank Climate

San Bilal Hanne Louise Knaepen Karim Karaki

Agreed San Bilal . Rechanneling SDR2.5bn would catalyze much-needed financing in Africa at a time when most countries are shut out from international capital markets

.Lindsay Appleby welcomes our panel on the role of the international financial architecture in sustainable development. Our speakers are
Melinda Bohannon, Jestas Abuok Nyamanga, Heidy Rombouts & Sander Tordoir, chaired by @sanbilal1 & co-organised with UK Mission to the EU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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As #GlobalGateway turns 2, we ask:

How can the EU break away from traditional approaches to dev. cooperation, economic relations and foreign policy so as to better implement its geostrategic ambitions?

Read the latest from Chloe Teevan & San Bilal
👉 bit.ly/40YJYuz