Mobilising the private sector for development is not just a donor imperative.
The "West Africa and the West African Power Pool" section investigates the West African electricity system, efforts to harness the regional resource in the sector for development, global climate change obligations of member states, and approaches to modeling of long-term electric power markets.
But the overall shift to leveraging the private sector for development is profound and irreversible.
Despite the usefulness of identifying key sectors, especially for development planning, key sector analysis has not been widely used in developing countries in recent years.
NGOs are no more immune to corruption than companies in other sectors but for development organisations it can be especially harmful and have a knock-on effect on reputation, funding and donations.
The main goal of 'Skill India' program, a dream project of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, launched in March 2015, is to create opportunities, space and scope for the development of the talents of the Indian youth and to develop more of those sectors which have already been put under skill development for the last so many years and also to identify new sectors for skill development.
Despite the recent developments in social assistance since 1990, there is a low acceptance in the public and private sectors for personal development and psychological interventions.
Similar to France, state authorities in Japan also pursued dirigiste policies prioritizing selected sectors for rapid development and recruiting technocrats from the nation's elite schools for positions as planners in the state administration.
Sebastian Große-policydahl, pofficerfficer, the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), Maastricht, The Netherlands @SebGroPup Sebastian works on development finance and private sector engagement for development.
"This two-day meeting covers various issues and includes the next round in a long series of discussions on possible ways to mobilise more private sector support for development," the OECD spokesperson said.
