Tag: Development finance

The African Union Commission (AUC) will take part at the First World Humanitarian Summit to be held from 23 to 24 May 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey. During this event, the African Union...

We, the undersigned Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), are committed to working together, and within our respective institutional mandates, to respond to the global forced disp...

According to new GEGI research in collaboration with Yongzhong Wang of the Chinese Academy of Social Science’s Institute for World Economics and Politics, in just over a decade C...

Speech by Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer Joaquim Levy at the World Bank’s Development Finance Forum on the theme ‘Unlocking Opportunities in Fragile Markets’ i...

Africa’s climate and development agendas are inextricably linked. Unless decisive climate action is agreed in Paris, Climate variability and change could jeopardize Africa’s ha...

The objective of this report is to provide an analytical framework of development co-operation for private sector development (PSD) and a measurement to capture relevant Official D...

Small States like Seychelles have served as a “magnifying lens” for many issues that all nations must face, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Nati...

African development finance institutions must come together in partnership in order to more effectively tackle the challenges affecting the financing of intra-African trade, partic...

Gerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the importance of development funding in order to bring about lasting improvements in economic governance tralac participated recent...

National financing strategies will play a decisive role in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been agreed and the world ...

Greater efforts in preparedness response, recovery and development interventions are needed from humanitarian actors for African nations to meet the immediate needs of their citize...

Briefing Member States on 4 April 2016 on preparations for the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Heads ...

The Africa We Want – A Shared Strategic Framework for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development Over the past 50 years (1963-2013) Africa focused her collective on ...

SADC Committee of Ministers of Finance and Investment met on Saturday, 12 March 2016 in Gaborone, Botswana. The main objective of this meeting was to consider the outcome of the as...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday, 7 March announced that timely agricultural assistance for the upcoming rainy season is essential to help the d...

Against a backdrop of new reports that show the number of refugees entering Europe has continued to skyrocket, senior government officials attending the final day of the Internatio...

World leaders must come together in 2016 to renew their commitments to humanity and unite to prevent and end crisis and reduce vulnerability, United Nations Secretary-General Ban K...

Top donor aid recipients According to data from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – a consortium of 34 donor countries – official development ass...

Sustainable development is the Holy Grail of the international community, and the potential roles played by trade and finance lie at the heart of the search effort. The extremely r...

Various city representatives gathered for a special breakout session during the recent Understanding Risk & Finance Conference to discuss resilience, the challenges and opportu...