Navigating fragility: the new multilateral agenda
Donald Kaberuka
Co-Chair of the Council on State Fragility / Former President of the African Development Bank / Former Minister of Planning and Finance, RwandaAlexia Latortue
Assistant Secretary, United States TreasuryFranck Bousquet
Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund
Sara Pantuliano
Chief Executive, ODI
Abdilahi Ali
Head of the State Fragility Initiative/Former Executive Director of the Central Bank of Somalia/National Economic Advisor, Federal Government of Somalia, International Growth Centre
Hans Peter Lankes
Visiting Professor in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Lukas Rüttinger
Senior Advisor for Climate and Security, adelphi
Jointly organised by the ODI and International Growth Centre (IGC), this event will focus on the pressing global issues of fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) and their implications for reforming the multilateral banking development agenda.
Convening experts, thought leaders, and global influencers, including from the global south, we aim to share experiences and redefine global cooperation around these urgent global challenges, which have devastating effects on the poorest and most vulnerable countries but also represent an important barrier to development in middle-income countries.
The discussion will seek to bring clarity to our collective understanding of FCV as urgent global challenges, and reflect on their implications for efforts to tackling the similarly intractable global challenges of climate change and pandemics.
Building on this discussion, and in the context of reforming the multilateral banking development agenda, we aim to inform the development of effective strategies and instruments for international financial institutions to address global FCV, with a focus on concessional financing and changes in operating models.
| Start time | End time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 16:00 | 16:10 |
Introductory speeches from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Donald Kaberuka, Abdi Ali and Sara Pantuliano. |
| 16:10 | 17:00 |
The first session, featuring Sara Pantuliano and Lukas Rüttinger and moderated by Franck Bousquet, will explore the global significance of fragility. With conversation starters from the audience, we will have an open discussion connecting the sources of fragility, conflict and violence with effective forms of intervention. |
| 17:00 | 17:50 | The second session, featuring Alexia Latortue, and moderated by Hans Peter Lankes, will look at these issues in the context of reforming the multilateral development banking system. We will discuss the strategies and instruments the international community can use to address fragility on a global scale, with a particular focus on concessional financing and changes in operating models. |
| 17:50 | 18:00 | Led by Abdi Ali, Sara Pantuliano and Franck Bousquet. |