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Rethinking the role of National Development Banks

The third Multi-stakeholder Consultation on “Rethinking the Role of National Development Banks in Africa” took place in the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) premises and was organized by the Financing for Development Office of UN-DESA, in collaboration with the IDC, the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), the Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) and the Southern African Development Community – Development Finance Resource Center (SADC-DFRC). More than 100 participants attended the event, including heads of national development banks and other development finance institutions, representatives from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Development Bank (EIB), as well as private commercial banks, academia and civil society.

• Final Agenda
  
• General Conclusions, Policy Recommendations and Action-oriented Proposals
• Meeting Report

Background documentation

• Proposed Issues
  
• Revised Background DocumentÌý(French)

Presentations and papers

• Multi-stakeholder consultations on Rethinking the Role of NDBs in Development Financing
  Alex Trepelkov (Deputy Director, DESA 51³Ô¹Ï)
• Challenges of addressing market failures, the role of NDBs/National DFIs
  Admassu Tadesse (Vice-President, DBSA)
• Financial Sector Integration in West Africa: Lessons of Experience
  Mme Hassane Safiatou (Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development, TOGO)
• Regional integration through infrastructure development
  Piet Viljoen (Africa partnerships- DBSA)
• The Tunisian Experience in financing development: The Role of Development Banks
  Mme Moufida Jaballah йp Srarfi (Director of International Cooperation –Tunisia)
• NDBs in sustainable development: addressing market failures
  Dr. Simon Roberts, (Head Economist-Competition Commission)
• Cooperatives & sustainability , a case study
  Jose Garson, (BRED Bank, Belgium)
• The Nigerian Experience
  Lawal Kankia Ibrahim,(FNIM, FIMC, M. Institute of Directors)
• Down stream value addition and sector strategies
  Lumkile Mondi (Chief Economist, IDC South Africa)
• Micro Finance and Linkages
  Marie Kirsten (Co-ordinator Institute and Finance Publication -DBSA)
• Promoting and supporting SME development – the case of Kenya & Madagascar
  Paul Malherbe (Business Partners International)
• Capital markets and resource mobilisation (multilateral institutions)
  Louis Ngassa-Batonga (IFC)
• NDB’s: Crowding in the private sector
  Peter Mageza (Group COO, ABSA, South Africa)
• NDBs as intermediaries for Multirateral Development Banks
  Lena Eriksson-Ashuvud (Deputy Head, Regional Representation for Southern Africa & Indian Ocean, EIB)
• Developing the DFIs’ capacity to deliver
  Dr. Rosalind Thomas (CEO, SADC-DFRC, Botswana)
• Responding to changing priorities in development: IDC case study
  Geoffrey Qhena (CEO, IDC South Africa)
• Innovation and Financing for Entrepreneurship Development
  Clive Kellow (CEO,CommerzBank AG)
• The fit of NDBs/DFIs with public policy
  Kabelo Seitshiro (Chief Director – National Treasury)
• Good governance and, Prudential regulation and supervision
  Professor YRK Reddy (Chairman, Yaga Consulting Pvt. Ltd. India)
• General Conclusions, Policy Recommendations & Action Proposals
  Rapporteurs: Alex Trepelkov and Julien Serre (UN-DESA)

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