Final Project Digital Artifact

Final Project Digital ArtifactKey messages l learnt in 4 weeks as a participant in the course

Billions to Trillions to Action:Mobilizing Finance for Development 2015-2030

Development is about creating a better world now and into the futureThe SDGs are both national goals and international goalsFinancing for development isn't just about money, it is also about how that money is financed and managedDifferent financial instruments can have specific uses that are tailored to meet different needsResource mobilization requires all three: public, private and domestic

WEEK 1 KEY MESSAGES

Week 2 Key messagesImproving the efficiency (both technical and allocative) of Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) is vital towards increasing financing for developmentThe constraints to DRM must be minimizedTax constraints, weak capacity, illicit financial flows, equity in revenue mobilizationODA can be used as a catalyst to leverage private finance

The private sector can be a key financer of developmentTo improve private financing in development, we need toMaintain a stable and macro economic environmentReduce bureaucratic hurdles for doing businessEnsure financial and social returns co-existStable legal and regulatory environments

WEEK 3 KEY MESSAGES

Adequate financial resources are available globally, the challenges are in developing new and innovative approaches to finance the new development agenda Innovative financing is looking at a specific development problem and structuring a financing solution to help finance that particular problemExamples include debt based financing, pull mechanisms, risk management, catastrophe bonds, etc.WEEK 4 KEY MESSAGES

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