There is the challenge of demonstrating the value of what we do—in the case of business, demonstrating that inclusive business models can benefit the bottom line, and for development institutions, demonstrating the measurable difference working with businesses can have in terms of development impact.
For development institutions, women's full equality (and their presence) at the table is a litmus test of commitment.
We should hold up OPIC's climate policy, even with its foibles, as the first step in the right direction for all development institutions.
A recent publication by Nancy Lee, Guillermo Perry and Nancy Birdsall sets out an agenda for the multilateral development institutions as market developers for new risk-mitigation financial products.
2. Knowledge development Institutions and resources for education, skills development and research (universities, research facilities).
That's why at the beginning of December 2015, partners from Government of Kenya, the UN, civil society, private sector and development institutions came together for a workshop organized by the World Economic Forum, Ministry of Health Kenya, World Bank and UNFPA.
The Bank is owned by 186 member countries and is made up of two unique development institutions — the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), which serves middle-income countries, and the International Development Association (IDA), which serves low-income countries.
Development institutions have voiced quite uncritical support for cost recovery or blanket privatization.
Systematic reporting focused on the most severe cases of leptospirosis has the potential for providing a data-driven basis for ministry-level policy development, institution of public health control measures, and quantitative assessment of the global severity of leptospirosis.
The survey revealed a "culture of fear," pervasive "fear of risk" and a "terrible" environment for collaboration at the huge development institution, which lends more than $30 billion a year and works in more than 100 countries.
The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), a multilateral development institution, has been created to accelerate the availability of predictable long term funds for health and immunization programmes through the GAVI Alliance in 70 of the poorest countries in the world.
