The Secretariat is organising a series of informal technical briefings on the forthcoming draft report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development to give Member States the opportunity to better understand the material covered in the report, and to ask questions about it. Representatives from the relevant major institutional stakeholders (World Bank, IMF, WTO, UNCTAD, and UNDP) and other Task Force members will be available at each meeting. The schedule of briefings is as follows:
| Date
|
Topic
|
Location
|
| Monday, 3 April
10AM-12PM
|
Domestic and international private business and finance | CR 11 |
| Tuesday, 4 April
1:15-2:30PM
|
International development cooperation
Data, monitoring and follow-up |
CR 5 |
| Thursday, 6 April
4:30-6 PM
|
Domestic public resources | CR 5 |
| Monday, 10 April
10AM-12PM
|
Introduction, global context, and thematic chapters | CR 5 |
| Tuesday, 11 April
10AM-12PM
|
International trade as an engine for development
Science, technology, innovation and capacity building |
CR.11 |
| Wednesday, 12 April
10AM-1PM
|
Addressing systemic issues
Debt and debt sustainability |
CR.6 |
The advanced unedited draft of the 2017 IATF report will be made available before the end of March, 2017, following the full Task Force meeting. For further information please contact Mr. Peter Chowla (email chowla@un.org, tel 1 (212) 963-8618).