The United Nations, represented by its Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) through its Financing for Development Office (FfD), and ADFIAP will have a consultative meeting on financing for development issues on December 17, 2007 in Bangkok , Thailand during ADFIAP’s CEO Forum IV to be held also in the Thai capital. The SME Development Bank of Thailand (SME Bank) is hosting the event together with ADFIAP.
The meeting will be highlighted by two main sessions, one on the topic “National and Regional Development Banks: Potential and Sustainability” and the other on “Responsible Infrastructure Investment: Financing Access to Basic Utilities”.
Confirmed speakers are: Mr. Ravi Ratnayake, Director, Poverty and Development Division, UN-Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP), Mr. Sailendra Narain, Chairman, Centre for SME Growth and Development Finance ( India ), Mr. Ping Chew, Managing Director, Asia Corporate & Government Ratings, Standard and Poor’s Credit Market Services ( Singapore ), Mr. Le Huu Ti, Chief, Sustainable Development and Water Resources Section, Environment and Sustainable Development Division, UN-ESCAP, Mr. Vibhu Nayar, Project Director, Tamil Nadu Rural Water Supply Programme ( India ) and Mr. Daniel Platz, Financing for Development Office, UN-DESA.
The UN-DESA is represented by Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development and Mr. Alexander Trepelkov, FfD’s Chief for multistake Holder Engagement and Outreach Branch.
The Financing for Development Office www.un.org/esa/ffd established in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in accordance with General Assembly resolution as an outcome of the adoption of the Monterrey Consensus by Heads of State or Government at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey , Mexico in March 2002 . The Monterrey Consensus embraces six areas of financing for development: (1) mobilizing domestic financial resources for development (2) mobilizing international resources for development: foreign direct investment and other private flows (3) international trade as an engine for development (4) increasing international financial and technical cooperation for development (5) external debt and (6) addressing systemic issues: enhancing the coherence and consistency of the international monetary, financial and trading systems in support of development.
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