Post-2015 Development Goals: What Positive Role for Public-Private Partnerships?

Date: Monday, September 15

Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Where: World Bank MC Building on 18 & H Street, 10th Floor, Room 100

Presented by New Rules for Global Finance and the Heinrich Boell Foundation

The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Finance has just concluded their report which is to be reviewed by the UN General Assembly in the coming months. The General Assembly, in turn, will identify the priorities and funding of Sustainable Development Goals which will become the focus of globally coordinated development funding and action.

In the post-crisis world, all governments are strapped for finance, so the options for action contain many proposal related to coordination of private and public money to achieve the desired outcomes. Given the amount of financial liquidity available to the private sector, the approach looks like a win-win arrangement. On the other hand many civil society and development organizations have raised concerns about such arrangements, fearing that governments will carry the risks and the private partners the profits.

Panel:

Mansur Muhtar - Executive Director at the World Bank for Nigeria, South Africa, and Angola; and co-chair of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Finance (ICESDF).
H.E. Ambassador Pertti Majanen - Co-chair of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Finance (TBC)
Nancy Alexander - Director, Economic Governance Program, Heinrich Boell Foundation
Representative from Goldman Sachs
Rev. Séamus P. Finn OMI - Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility & New Rules Board President
Jo Marie Griesgraber - Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance (Moderator)

Water, tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Please arrive 15 minutes early to allow time to enter through security.

To attend this event, you must register by sending your name and affiliation to ncoplin@new-rules.org by September 14.