Agenda
Three specific topics were explored:
- Team Europe: Partnerships for impact, cooperation and co-financing instruments (e.g. mutual reliance, European Financing Partners for COVID-19, Vienna Bank Coordination Initiative …)
- Countercyclical measures: resources mobilisation, leveraging, guarantees, innovative approaches and engagements, the EU’s recovery package and the amended multiannual financial framework proposal (e.g. EFSD, NDICI), ensuring an effective EU development finance architecture.
- Transformative agenda: support climate action and digital transition, human development (education, health), food security, gender, reinforce resilience and address poverty gap.
Keynote speech
Mrs. Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships
Panel Discussion
Mr. Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB)
Mr. Jurgen Rigterink, acting President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Mr. Bruno Wenn, Chair of the Association of European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI)
Event introduced and moderated by Dr. San Bilal, Senior Executive, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
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