BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4da5c923172 DTSTART:20171108T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20171108T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Financing for Development\, 1 st session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Financing for development: Issues in domestic public resource m obilization and international development cooperationThe objective of this meeting is to discuss challenges faced by developing countries and the in ternational community with regard to domestic public resource mobilization and the modernization of international public finance for sustainable dev elopment and international development cooperation.The session will focus on:Domestic public resources: What can be done to enhance the mobilization of domestic public resources for development in developing countries?Inte rnational development cooperation: How can international development coope ration maximize its contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?Effective domestic public resource mobilization in developing countr ies will be vital to efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and facilitate development transformation. Developing countries face major ch allenges in developing more effective taxation frameworks and capacities\, and managing their fiscal space in a volatile global economic environment characterized by the following factors: persistent lack of effective glob al demand\, continued lacklustre recovery from the global economic crisis in developed economies and subdued commodity prices.There is a need to imp rove regulatory\, legislative and administrative capacities in developing countries to broaden their tax base and increase tax revenue\, and to stre ngthen fiscal policy design and implementation with regard to expenditure. The role of national and subregional development banks in financing develo pment also needs to be strengthened\, and illicit financial flows curbed\, not least by way of advances in international tax cooperation.The interna tional community has an important responsibility to garner sufficient inte rnational public financing to support domestic efforts in resource mobiliz ation for sustainable development and to honour the commitment by members of the Development Assistance Committee to deliver 0.7 per cent of gross n ational income as official development assistance.In the context of discus sion and consultations on the modernization of official development assist ance and a potentially enhanced role for blended finance\, the internation al community should ensure the transparency of new frameworks\, and clear and separate accounting of the longer-term costs and benefits of different types of financial flows and financing instruments for sustainable develo pment\, as well as of their true developmental impact.From the perspective of international development cooperation\, the emerging role of new multi lateral development banks based in the global South deserves further discu ssion. Moreover\, opportunities\, in particular with regard to a growing n etwork of cooperation between national\, subregional and multilateral deve lopment banks\, should be explored. While necessarily focusing on the most needy\, efforts towards international development cooperation also need t o take a more systematic account of the persistent troubles of many middle -income countries\, in particular stagnation tendencies and developmental reversals.The first session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on F inancing for Development will explore these issues\, in accordance with th e Addis Ababa Action Agenda\, with a view to developing policy recommendat ions on how best to enhance the mobilization of domestic public resources in developing countries and to maximize the contribution of international development cooperation to sustainable developmental transformation and th e achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.Written contributionsIn order to facilitate deliberations and the informal exchange of experience s and best practices on the topics to be discussed\, member States and obs ervers are requested to submit written contributions to the UNCTAD secreta riat by 18 October 2017.<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center\n\nView mee ting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/intergovernmental-group-exp erts-financing-development-1st-session DTSTAMP:20260708T012009Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4da5c9231b3 DTSTART:20171109T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20171109T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Financing for Development\, 1 st session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Financing for development: Issues in domestic public resource m obilization and international development cooperationThe objective of this meeting is to discuss challenges faced by developing countries and the in ternational community with regard to domestic public resource mobilization and the modernization of international public finance for sustainable dev elopment and international development cooperation.The session will focus on:Domestic public resources: What can be done to enhance the mobilization of domestic public resources for development in developing countries?Inte rnational development cooperation: How can international development coope ration maximize its contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?Effective domestic public resource mobilization in developing countr ies will be vital to efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and facilitate development transformation. Developing countries face major ch allenges in developing more effective taxation frameworks and capacities\, and managing their fiscal space in a volatile global economic environment characterized by the following factors: persistent lack of effective glob al demand\, continued lacklustre recovery from the global economic crisis in developed economies and subdued commodity prices.There is a need to imp rove regulatory\, legislative and administrative capacities in developing countries to broaden their tax base and increase tax revenue\, and to stre ngthen fiscal policy design and implementation with regard to expenditure. The role of national and subregional development banks in financing develo pment also needs to be strengthened\, and illicit financial flows curbed\, not least by way of advances in international tax cooperation.The interna tional community has an important responsibility to garner sufficient inte rnational public financing to support domestic efforts in resource mobiliz ation for sustainable development and to honour the commitment by members of the Development Assistance Committee to deliver 0.7 per cent of gross n ational income as official development assistance.In the context of discus sion and consultations on the modernization of official development assist ance and a potentially enhanced role for blended finance\, the internation al community should ensure the transparency of new frameworks\, and clear and separate accounting of the longer-term costs and benefits of different types of financial flows and financing instruments for sustainable develo pment\, as well as of their true developmental impact.From the perspective of international development cooperation\, the emerging role of new multi lateral development banks based in the global South deserves further discu ssion. Moreover\, opportunities\, in particular with regard to a growing n etwork of cooperation between national\, subregional and multilateral deve lopment banks\, should be explored. While necessarily focusing on the most needy\, efforts towards international development cooperation also need t o take a more systematic account of the persistent troubles of many middle -income countries\, in particular stagnation tendencies and developmental reversals.The first session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on F inancing for Development will explore these issues\, in accordance with th e Addis Ababa Action Agenda\, with a view to developing policy recommendat ions on how best to enhance the mobilization of domestic public resources in developing countries and to maximize the contribution of international development cooperation to sustainable developmental transformation and th e achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.Written contributionsIn order to facilitate deliberations and the informal exchange of experience s and best practices on the topics to be discussed\, member States and obs ervers are requested to submit written contributions to the UNCTAD secreta riat by 18 October 2017.<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center\n\nView mee ting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/intergovernmental-group-exp erts-financing-development-1st-session DTSTAMP:20260708T012009Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a4da5c9231b9 DTSTART:20171110T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20171110T160000Z LOCATION:Geneva\, Switzerland SUMMARY:Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Financing for Development\, 1 st session CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Financing for development: Issues in domestic public resource m obilization and international development cooperationThe objective of this meeting is to discuss challenges faced by developing countries and the in ternational community with regard to domestic public resource mobilization and the modernization of international public finance for sustainable dev elopment and international development cooperation.The session will focus on:Domestic public resources: What can be done to enhance the mobilization of domestic public resources for development in developing countries?Inte rnational development cooperation: How can international development coope ration maximize its contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?Effective domestic public resource mobilization in developing countr ies will be vital to efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and facilitate development transformation. Developing countries face major ch allenges in developing more effective taxation frameworks and capacities\, and managing their fiscal space in a volatile global economic environment characterized by the following factors: persistent lack of effective glob al demand\, continued lacklustre recovery from the global economic crisis in developed economies and subdued commodity prices.There is a need to imp rove regulatory\, legislative and administrative capacities in developing countries to broaden their tax base and increase tax revenue\, and to stre ngthen fiscal policy design and implementation with regard to expenditure. The role of national and subregional development banks in financing develo pment also needs to be strengthened\, and illicit financial flows curbed\, not least by way of advances in international tax cooperation.The interna tional community has an important responsibility to garner sufficient inte rnational public financing to support domestic efforts in resource mobiliz ation for sustainable development and to honour the commitment by members of the Development Assistance Committee to deliver 0.7 per cent of gross n ational income as official development assistance.In the context of discus sion and consultations on the modernization of official development assist ance and a potentially enhanced role for blended finance\, the internation al community should ensure the transparency of new frameworks\, and clear and separate accounting of the longer-term costs and benefits of different types of financial flows and financing instruments for sustainable develo pment\, as well as of their true developmental impact.From the perspective of international development cooperation\, the emerging role of new multi lateral development banks based in the global South deserves further discu ssion. Moreover\, opportunities\, in particular with regard to a growing n etwork of cooperation between national\, subregional and multilateral deve lopment banks\, should be explored. While necessarily focusing on the most needy\, efforts towards international development cooperation also need t o take a more systematic account of the persistent troubles of many middle -income countries\, in particular stagnation tendencies and developmental reversals.The first session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on F inancing for Development will explore these issues\, in accordance with th e Addis Ababa Action Agenda\, with a view to developing policy recommendat ions on how best to enhance the mobilization of domestic public resources in developing countries and to maximize the contribution of international development cooperation to sustainable developmental transformation and th e achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.Written contributionsIn order to facilitate deliberations and the informal exchange of experience s and best practices on the topics to be discussed\, member States and obs ervers are requested to submit written contributions to the UNCTAD secreta riat by 18 October 2017.<\;h3 class="\;text-align-center\n\nView mee ting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meeting/intergovernmental-group-exp erts-financing-development-1st-session DTSTAMP:20260708T012009Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR