The New Rules for Global Finance Coalition

Invites you

 

TO LEARN

about the Report/Recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on Coherence

 

TO SHARE

your knowledge about the implications of these Recommendations, their likelihood of being implemented;

 

TO PLAN

for the Fall 2008 Financing for Development Conference—Follow-up to Monterrey and  for the Spring 2007 annual meeting between the UN, IMF, World Bank, WTO, UNCTAD to track FFD implementation

 

Friday, January 19, 2007

 

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

 

Institute for Policy Studies

1112 16^th Street, NW, Suite 600

Washington, DC  20036

 

Directions:  A short walk from Farragut West (Orange Line) and Farragut North (Red Line) at the corner of 16 & L Street NW.

 Click here for a Map.

  

All are welcome, but RSVP Required due to space constraints.

Please RSVP to jbaker@new-rules.org

 

Steven Feldstein, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, at the US State Department has been invited to give a short presentation on the Report of the High Level Panel on Coherence.  We will share the full set of documents closer to the date.

 

Those involved in direct aid or humanitarian assistance will find it important to understand the in-country coordination proposed through ONE UN.

 

Those who are informed about UN politics and internal dynamics can share the likelihood of the new Secretary General implementing any of these recommendations.

 

All of us involved in development will want to track and engage in the 2008 FFD Conference to be held in Doha, Qatar.  The full FFD agenda includes:  domestic revenues/taxes; foreign direct investment, trade, aid—bilateral and multilateral, debt, and systemic issues—financial crises and governance of global financial rule-making bodies.  Thanks to the intervention of the government of Switzerland, NGOs/CSOs will be included in the preparatory processes. Nancy Alexander has agreed to lead us in a conversation for identifying key leverage issues related to the FFD Agenda.

 

In spring 2006 many of us were involved in organizing workshops on the FFD Agenda in Washington during the WB-IMF Spring meetings.  The Financing for Development Office was especially grateful for these meetings and have encouraged us to do this again.  This is a wide open invitation to any and all who would like to be engaged in this process