Draft agenda
1. Opening of side events:
- Role of remittances in financing development in Africa: lessons learned from North Africa (ECA and ESCWA)
- A new paradigm in health financing: the importance of national funding (The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in collaboration with African strategic partners)
2. Pre-session activities
3. Meetings and workshops
4. Official opening ceremony
5. Plenary session 1: round table on innovative policies for a world in transition
6. Plenary session 2: round table on private equity: state of private equity in Africa and its potential as an alternative source of financing investments in Africa, economic growth and job creation
7. Parallel thematic breakout sessions:
- Pension funds: tapping Africa’s unused wealth
- Impact investments
- Enhancing the role of Governments with a view to attracting greater private equity investments in support of national development efforts
8. Plenary session 3: round table on domestic resource mobilization: challenges and opportunities
9. Parallel thematic breakout sessions:
- Taxation and accountability
- Deepening financial markets, unlocking capital
- Remittances and diaspora bonds
10. Plenary session 4: round table on illicit financial flows: an African problem with a global solution
11. Plenary session 5: round table on new forms of partnerships: renewed partnerships for the development of Africa in a multipolar world
12. Plenary session 6: round table on the issue of climate financing for Africa
13. Parallel thematic breakout sessions:
- Illicit financial flows and governance of natural resources
- Capacity enhancement to curtail illicit financial flows
- Regional value chains, South-South trade and development prospects in Africa
- Going beyond the donor-recipient dichotomy: what is the role of emerging actorsand the African private sector?
- New partnerships and emerging sources of development finance
14. Plenary session 7: review of the discussions, policy suggestions and proposed actions emanating from the breakout sessions
15. Launch of the Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa 2014
16. Plenary session 8: open-ended discussion on the draft consensus statement
17. Closing ceremony
18. Press conference
19. Concert