Following the conclusion of the first Finance in Common Summit, APMDD, AFRODAD, Latindadd, Third World Network and Eurodad have issued the following response.
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What are the core features of a model Public Development Bank?
Public Development Banks are in a unique and powerful position to play a key role in the post Covid-19 recovery. Explore the core features such organisations should embody.
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
- FiC
FiC Joint CSO Statement - Public Development Banks must deliver on the world we want
From 10-12 November, the first summit of Public Development Banks, the Finance in Common Summit, will be held.
- Climate Finance
- FiC
2020 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings: Disappointing response to Coronavirus crisis
Last week was a crucial week for the citizens of developing countries, who are being hit hard by the Coronavirus crisis. They are facing increasing poverty, growing inequality and uncertain futures – and were looking to the world's leaders for decisive action. Yet despite a week of stirring rhetoric from G20, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) leaders, who claim they are determined to tackle the crisis, the results are deeply disappointing. What is clear is that world leaders and the Bretton Woods institutions need to take much more ambitious steps to deliver in the public interest.
- Development Finance
- Global Processes
More than 500 civil society organisations call for immediate debt cancellation to help lower-income countries fight Covid-19
Civil society activists from across the world have come together online to sound the #DebtAlarm, calling upon world leaders to act on debt cancellation.
- Debt Justice
- Debt Resolution
Joint civil society submission to the November 2020 OECD Development Assistance Committee High Level Meeting
The upcoming Development Assistance Committee (DAC) High Level Meeting (HLM) provides an opportunity for DAC Members to commit to doing development better. This joint civil society submission represents the views of a group of 26 civil society organisations (CSOs) from the global south and the global north.
- Aid Effectiveness
- Covid-19
Civil Society Organisations’ statement against continued IMF austerity
More than 500 civil society organisations are calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to immediately stop promoting austerity around the world, and instead advocate policies that advance gender justice, reduce inequality, and decisively put people and planet first.
- Debt Justice
- Global Processes
Global economic solutions now!
Eurodad joins more than 350 civil society organisations from across the world in signing an open letter to Heads of State Meeting at the United Nations for the 75th UNGA.
- Tax Justice
- Global Processes
Eurodad reaction to #FinCEN Files
On Sunday 20 September 2020, an international network of over 400 journalists coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released the FinCEN Files – exposing the global movement of illicit financial flows through the international banking system.
- Tax Justice
- Stop Tax Dodging
Making the European ‘Climate’ Investment Bank work for developing countries
In response to the public consultation on the European Investment Bank Climate Bank Roadmap, this paper outlines what the Roadmap should do to fulfil the commitment to international climate finance.
- Climate Finance
- Global Processes
Joint civil society submission to the July 2020 OECD Development Assistance Committee meeting addressing Debt Relief reporting measures
This submission represents the views of a group of 25 civil society organisations (CSOs) from the global south and the global north.
- Aid Effectiveness
- Aid Quality
Joint CSO Letter on the EIB Climate Bank Roadmap
The dual crises of Covid-19 and climate change represent an opportunity for the European Investment Bank (EIB) to become the world's first Climate Bank. 2020 also marks the year in which the EIB will develop a Climate Bank Roadmap.
- Climate Finance
- Covid-19