International Financing for Development

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Team

Martine AUDIBERT
Emeritus Director of Research at CERDI/CNRS
Matthieu BOUSSICHAS
Programme Manager, FERDI
Lisa CHAUVET
Researcher, Institut de recherche pour le développement
PSL, Université Paris Dauphine, CNRS, LEDa, DIAL
Paul COLLIER
Director, Centre for the study of African economies, Oxford University
Professor, Blavatnik School of Government
Senior Fellow, FERDI
Jaime DE MELO
Scientific Advisor, FERDI
Emeritus Professor, University of Geneva
CEPR Fellow
Frédéric DOCQUIER
Professor of Economics and member of IRES, UCLouvain
Research Program Leader (Crossing Borders), Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Research Associate, National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)
Senior Fellow, FERDI
Michaël GOUJON
Associate professor, CERDI - Université Clermont Auvergne
Patrick GUILLAUMONT
President, FERDI
Emeritus Professor, University of Auvergne
Sylviane GUILLAUMONT JEANNENEY
Advisor, FERDI
Researcher, CERDI/University of Clermont Auvergne
Jacky MATHONNAT
Emeritus Professor, CERDI - Université Clermont Auvergne
Senior Fellow in charge of the Health Program, FERDI
Mark McGILLIVRAY
Professor, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
Senior Felow, FERDI
Vincent NOSSEK
Research Assistant, Ferdi
Thi Kim Cuong PHAM
HDR Lecturer in Economics, University of Strasbourg, UNISTRA
Fellow Ferdi
Laurent WAGNER
Research Officer, FERDI

International Financing for Development

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For more than 15 years, FERDI's research activities, publications, and conferences on international aid effectiveness and aid allocation policies have contributed to international discussions and helped in the taking account of vulnerabilities in financing for development.

The long road towards a truly sustainable development which benefits everyone requires the annual mobilization of thousands of billions of euros. It requires that these funds meet the specific needs of each country. It also requires international cooperation capable of supporting the most vulnerable countries, despite their structural handicaps, to allow them to benefit from the international financing essential for their development.

In the four years since the adoption of the United Nations Addis Ababa Program of Action (AAAA) on Financing for Development, FERDI's work has aimed to identify the most appropriate international financing flows for each country's context and to assess the effectiveness of these flows.

FERDI's work seeks to define how public actors can optimize the use of their resources to create the conditions for sustainable and inclusive development, particularly in the most vulnerable countries. This includes analyzing which instruments and mechanisms can create the necessary incentives for a suitable orientation of existing private funding flows. It also implies re-evaluation of aid allocation criteria in order to better take into account the vulnerabilities of countries.

Results and Impact

FERDI contributed to the Third United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development in July 2015 by publishing the collective book Financing Sustainable Development – Addressing Vulnerabilities.
The model for allocating aid developed by FERDI was adopted by the European Commission for the European Development Fund and Development Cooperation Instrument (Methodology for country allocations: European Development Fund and Development Cooperation Instrument 2014-2020).
The African Development Bank asked FERDI to support its aim of reforming how it allocates aid from the African Development Fund so as to take into account the various causes of vulnerability and fragility.
FERDI's paper entitled Measuring Official Development Assistance, Why and How to Change? was ranked as among the 50 best studies on public policies in the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report 2014.

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