Webinar: Decoding the Fundamentals of Development Finance

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development is organizing a series of webinars to help development actors better understand development finance and donor approaches.
AGENDA:
00:00 Welcome remarks: Maurizio Navarra, GDPRD Secretariat Coordinator
03:57 Session introduction: Jim Woodhill, GDPRD Senior Advisor
07:32 Scene setting keynote presentation: Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo (Latest evolutions of food security, nutrition, agriculture and rural development)
21:33 Funding mechanisms: Mita Samani (Overview of funding mechanisms, their purposes and where they are best applied)
48:22 Financial institutions: Natalia Toschi (Overview of international financial institutions: Who and what they are and how they operate)
1:12:55 Q&A
1:23:08 SOFI 2024: Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo (Emerging messages of the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI), considerations for the donor community)
1:37:03 Q&A and discussion
1:56:59 Conclusions: Maurizio Navarra, GDPRD Secretariat Coordinator
BACKGROUND:
The development community working on food systems is increasingly focusing on financing. The 2024 edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) Report will be entirely dedicated to financing for food security and nutrition. Likewise, next year’s IFAD’s Rural Development Report will be devoted to financing rural transformation.
The GDPRD will also contribute to this important international agenda with its 2024 Annual General Assembly (AGA) in November, focusing on financing the future of rural development and food systems in turbulent times.
This series of webinars is designed to help the development community gain a better understanding of development finance and donor approaches, to facilitate their participation in the global dialogue.
The first webinar will:
- Review the main concepts and terms of development finance (including but not limited to: development finance institutions, official development assistance, blended finance, climate finance, multilateral development finance, innovative finance)
- Provide an overview of the current development financing architecture (key financing institutions, types of financing instruments, flows and modalities, and best practices).
- Outline key emerging issues and directions in development finance, particularly in relation to the private sector and climate.
- Discuss implications for the future of financing food systems and rural development.

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Very interesting conversation on finance for FSN