Ethiopia:   Remittance Plays Positive Role in Dev't, Household Food Security

Ethiopian Herald, 15 July 2015

Remittances played as a significant tool for financing for development Read more »

Africa:   Speech By European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, At the Plenary Session of the Third International Conference On Financing for Development

PR Newswire, 14 July 2015

Neven Mimica, European Commissiomer for International Cooperation and Development Read more »

Africa:   Addis - Important Financing Roles of Private Investment, Business Highlighted At UN Conference

UN News, 14 July 2015

In Addis Ababa, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underscored the crucial financing role of the business sector in ensuring the necessary resources for… Read more »

Africa:   Addis - UN Agency Stresses Role of Partnerships to Finance Inclusive, Sustainable Industrial Development

UN News, 14 July 2015

Partnerships involving all development players will be key to scaling up the financing needed for industrial infrastructure and projects, an important element in the economic and… Read more »

Africa:   Addis - UN Negotiations Resume On Financing Framework to Advance Global Development

UN News, 14 July 2015

Negotiations on a comprehensive financing framework for sustainable development resumed today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where Member States have gathered for a United Nations… Read more »

Africa:   Remarks By UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner At the Third International Conference On Financing for Development

UNEP, 14 July 2015

Financial system changes need to be supported by economic policy innovations that shift financial flows away from hot capital and speculation to job-creation and clean investments… Read more »

Africa:   Addis - Investing in Gender Equality Vital to Economic Growth, Sustainable Development, Says Ban

UN News, 14 July 2015

Increased investments in gender equality are vital if the world is to achieve sustained economic growth and development, United Nations Secretary-General said today during the… Read more »

Africa:  Leave No One Behind, World Leaders Urge At Opening of Financing for Development Conference

UNECA, 13 July 2015

Ambitions are high at the international Conference on Financing for Development which opened today in Addis Ababa with close to 5000 participants in attendance. Read more »

Africa:   Set Enough Resources for Data Collection, Africa Urged

Daily News, 14 July 2015

African governments were yesterday asked to allocate sufficient resources for data production to help the national statistics offices to cope with emerging new technologies and… Read more »

Africa:   Calls for Clampdown On Tax-Dodging Firms

RFI, 13 July 2015

At the opening of a five-day conference on global development funding on Monday United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called on world leaders to put aside "narrow… Read more »

Africa:   UN Hopes 'Tax Inspectors Without Borders' Will Combat Tax Dodging

Thomson Reuters Foundation, 13 July 2015

Backers of a new initiative, dubbed "tax inspectors without borders", say it can help poor countries crackdown on tax dodging and fund their own development, but advocacy groups on… Read more »

Africa:   Addis - New UN-Backed Report Details Ways to Boost Finance for Sustainable Energy

UN News, 13 July 2015

A new United Nations-backed report launched today at a conference in Addis Ababa details concrete ways to boost crucial investment in sustainable energy by some $120 billion a… Read more »

Africa:   Addis - Greater Investments Needed As Fight Against Malaria Enters Critical Phase - UN

UN News, 13 July 2015

Despite the tremendous progress made over the past 15 years, greater investments are needed to achieve the goal of a world free of malaria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban… Read more »

Africa:   New Malaria Strategy Would Double Current Funding

IPS, 13 July 2015

Although malaria is both preventable and curable, it still killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the majority of them African children. Read more »

Africa:   Blended Finance Initiatives to Facilitate $100 Billion in Support of Sustainable Development Goals

WEF, 14 July 2015

The World Economic Forum and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), through the work of the Forum's ReDesigning Development Finance Initiative (RDFI),… Read more »

Africa:   Can Crowdfunding Help to Close the Financing Gap?

Commonwealth, 13 July 2015

In efforts to explore new and innovative approaches to development finance, the Commonwealth is organising an exciting event to showcase the potential of crowdfunding. Read more »

Africa:   Addis - Strong Partnerships Needed to Turn Billions Into Trillions for Sustainable Development

UN News, 13 July 2015

Achieve the future sustainable development agenda and the goal of ending extreme poverty will require strong and creative partnerships to turn billions in official assistance into… Read more »

Africa:   Loans to Women Equal Smart Economics

Africa Renewal, 13 July 2015

"Table banking" may not be a complex financial concept, but it is making a difference in the lives of thousands of women and their families in rural Kenya. Read more »

Africa:   World Looks to Ethiopia to Break Deadlock Over Funding Development Goals

Thomson Reuters Foundation, 10 July 2015

Negotiators locked horns until 2 a.m. some nights in New York this past month, trying to agree on a way to finance the United Nation's bold new global development agenda - without… Read more »

Africa:   Five Key Facts On Financing for Development

ECDPM, 9 July 2015

For positive development outcomes, both developed and developing countries need to ensure the right policy environment to make the best and most effective use of the resources… Read more »

Africa:  Call for Inclusive Sustainable Industrialization Dominate Financing for Development

UNECA, 14 July 2015

The global community needs to move in a balanced and integrated manner to achieve inclusive sustainable industrial development says United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. Read more »