ADF-15 Working Group

Fourth ADF-14 Working Group Meeting

May 29-30, 2015

Bank's Annual meetings in Abidjan

04:30 PM – 04:35 PM

Opening remarks by South Africa and United Kingdom Co-Chairs

04:35 PM – 04:40 PM

Remarks by Vice President Boamah

04:40 PM – 04:50 PM

Endorsement of the agenda

04:50 PM – 05:40 PM

Presentation (10 minutes) and discussion (40 minutes) on “ADF Graduation: Implications for the AfDB and its Client Countries”

05:40 PM – 06:30 PM

Special Presentation: Sovereign debt of ADF countries and implications for concessional lending (Matthew Martin)

08:00 AM – 09:00 AM

Presentation (10 minutes) and discussion (50 minutes) on “Potential demand and implementation framework for concessional donor loans”

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Presentation (10 minutes) and discussion (35 minutes) on “Proposed accelerated encashment schedule and its impact on the ACC”

10:00 AM – 10:10 AM

Coffee break

10:10 AM – 11:05 AM

Presentation (10 minutes) and discussion (45 minutes) on “Potential costs and benefits of a Buy-down Mechanism”

11:05 AM – 12:00 PM

Presentation (10 minutes) and discussion (45 minutes) “Synergies/complementarities of the various proposed options”

12:00 PM – 01:00 PM

Lunch Break Presentation: Thinking outside the box on the use of concessional resources (Pierre Jacquet)

01:00 PM – 01:45 PM

Content and calendar for the preparation and validation of the ADF-14 WG Final Report;
Confirmation of indicative date, venue and contents of the ADF-13 MTR;
Update on the recruitment of the coordinator for the ADF-13 MTR and the ADF-14 replenishment.
ADF Lab Update;
A.O.B.

01:45 PM – 02:00 PM

Wrap up

Documents