What we don’t know can hurt us: Better measurement and disclosure of MDB private finance mobilisation data
Wednesday 23 October 2024, 2:00-3:30 PM EST / 7:00-8:30 PM BST
Hybrid – Online and Washington DC
Center for Global Development, 2055 L Street NW, Washington, DC
While many point to the need for much larger multilateral development bank (MDB) mobilisation of private sustainable development finance, we lack sufficient evidence on current performance to assess where the best opportunities for mobilisation lie—including by sector, country, region, and financial instrument. This information gap is particularly worrisome as shareholders and donors are being asked to provide more concessional resources to support private finance mobilisation, without having a strong basis to judge where and how their scarce funds can be most productively deployed.
Publish What You Fund has completed an ambitious work program aimed at strengthening mobilisation measurement and reporting. It has developed a well-evidenced set of recommendations on what needs to be measured and disclosed to be most useful to public and private stakeholders.
After presentation of this work, a panel will explore the key measurement and disclosure challenges that need to be resolved in order to make and track more mobilisation progress.
We are delighted to be joined by:
- Nick Anstett, Managing Director, Pollination
- Margaret Kuhlow, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Development Finance and Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Haje Schütte, Deputy Director, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD
- Gary Forster, CEO, Publish What You Fund (Presenter)
- Nancy Lee, Director, Sustainable Development Finance, Center for Global Development (Moderator)
Additional panelists to be announced
This event is co-hosted with Center for Global Development.