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Date Time Towards a more resilient International Financial Architecture The Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Bank of Italy, together with the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, co-organised a workshop to discuss policy options for a more resilient International Financial Architecture with stakeholders, including policymakers, international organizations and academia. The Italian G20 Presidency and the not-for-profit organization Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC) co-hosted, on ...

Supporting Governments and Civil Society: Legal Frameworks Governing Extractive Industries CCSI is working with a number of governments and civil society organizations to provide advice on various issues relating to the regulatory regime for their extractive industries sector. Australia: Supporting the evaluation of the EITI pilot The University of Queensland (UQ) sub-contracted CCSI to support the evaluation of the Australian EITI pilot that UQ is undertaking. CCSI brought its international ex...

1. Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) is the worlds leading organization on financial inclusion policy and regulation. Currently, 100 member institutions make up the AFI network including central banks, finance ministries, and other financial policymaking or regulatory institutions more than 88 developing countries and emerging markets. AFI empowers policymakers to increase the access and usage of quality financial services for the underserved thro...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stressed that the importation of chemical fertilizers will be completely stopped in the near future. The usage of chemical fertilizers leads to a better harvest. However, the negative consequences caused on human lives through pollution of lakes, canals and groundwater due to the chemical fertilizers outweigh the profit. The health sector has pointed out that the effects of chemical fertilizers have led to a number of non-communicable diseases, including kidney di...

Estimated Start Date : Closing Date : 29 April 2021 Established in 1951, IOM is a Related Organization of the United Nations, and as the leading UN agency in the field of migration, works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants. IOM is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Read more about ...

Buhari. Photo: TWITTER/NIGERIAGOVIn 2017, the Federal Government, through the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), launched the Policy Framework and National Action Plan for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE). President Muhammadu Buhari on Aug. 24, 2017 gave a directive on the implementation of the framework and national action plan for the P/CVE stating roles and regulations as well as urging state and local governments to get involved. ...

Panels Seek Ways to Avoid Global Post-COVID Recovery That Leaves Some Behind, as Forum on Financing for Development Continues Format ECOSOC/7036 The Economic and Social Council continued its annual Forum on Financing for Development today, holding two interactive panel discussions, during which speakers proposed potential solutions to COVID-19’s devastating impact on infrastructure investment — lagging even before the novel coronavirus struck — and sought ways to avoid a global post-pande...

THE STANDARD BUSINESS NEWS African countries have embarked on strategies to boost trade in animals and product under the African Continental Free Trade Area  (AfCFTA). A meeting between COMESA Secretariat, member States and other Regional Economic Communities (RECs) discussed the integration of informal trade in animals and animal products into formal trade and access to information on available market opportunities and market potentials within the region. Other matters discussed included tra...

A Call to Action Jacques Cheminade is President of Solidarité et Progrès, a political party in France, associated with the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche. He spoke on the third panel, “Southwest Asia: Pivot for War, or Peaceful Development with the New Silk Road,” of the Schiller Institute’s March 20-21 international conference, “The World at a Crossroad—Two Months into the New Administration.” Jacques Cheminade We have reached one of those moments of history in which the human capacit...

The AU-ILO-IOM-ECA Joint Programme on Labour Migration Governance for Development and Integration in Africa (JLMP) on March 30 convened its fourth Programme Steering Committee (PSC) meeting that was hosted by the African Union Commission’s Department of Health, Humanitarian Affairs & Social Development (HHS) (https://au.int/en/sa). The online meeting reviewed the status of ongoing projects, with Commissioner of Social Affairs, H.E. Amira El-fadil, in opening remarks read on her behalf, sayin...