On days one and two of the February 2008 conference on the "Changing Face of Global Development Finance", we heard the following presentations:
| SPEAKERS: DAY ONE | PRESENTATIONS | SPEECHES |
| Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada and Chair of the Halifax Initiative Coalition, providing an introduction and overview to the conference. | Notes(link is external) | |
| Keynote speeches: The changing face of global development finance | ||
| Amar Bhattacharya, Group of 24 providing an overview of current debates around international development and the broad spectrum of issues related to global development finance; | Presentation(link is external) |  Listen(link is external) |
| Yao Graham, Third World Network-Africa looking at the impact of the global development finance debates on Ghana, and in particular Africa; | Listen(link is external) |
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Theme One: Emerging Institutional Alternatives |
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| Jorge Marchini, International Debt Observatory on the cotext in which the Bank of the South developed and looking forward to what it might look like; | Presentation(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
| Fabrina Furtado, Rede Brasil presenting some critiques of the Bank of the South, and why Brazil has been so opposed to its development; | Presentation(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
| Worapot Manupipatpong, Asian Development Bank Institute on the development of the Chiang Mai Initiative and an Asian Monetary Fund; | Presentation(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
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Theme Two: New sources of aid and their challenges |
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| Firoze Manji, Pambazuka News and Fahamu on the role of China in Africa; | Presentation(link is external) / Paper(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
| Theme Three: New emerging alternatives for financing development, including private and public vertical funds | ||
| Roberto Bissio, Social Watch, on the Paris Declaration and Financing for Development; and | Listen(link is external) |
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| John Foster, North South Institute on new mechanisms for Financing Development. | Notes(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
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Reflections on the emerging themes, issues and challenges |
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| Tony Tujan, IBON Foundation and Chair,Reality of Aid Network, summing up the themes of the day. | Listen(link is external) |
| SPEAKERS: DAY TWO | PRESENTATIONS | SPEECHES |
| Theme four: What will make aid more effective? | ||
| Charles Mutasa, AFRODAD providing an overview of aid effectiveness and its challenges; | Presentation(link is external) |  Listen(link is external) |
| Lydia Duran, Association for Women's Rights in Development providing insight on the gender blind nature of the Paris Declaration and discussions around aid effectiveness; | Listen(link is external) |
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| Rasheed Draman, Parliamentary Centre on how national Parliament's continue to be ostracized from the aid debate. | Presentation(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
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Theme five: Beyond the aid box |
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| Roy Culpeper, North-South Institute, on financing development and the role of domestic resource mobilization; | Presentation(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
| Alejandro Bendana, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Nicaragua on moving beyond the aid box. | Presentation(link is external) | Listen(link is external) |
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Concluding remarks |
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| Gerry Barr, Canadian Council for International Co-operation, summing up the flavour of the discussions from the past two days. | Listen(link is external) |