African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD III)
Resource-backed loans: Risks and opportunities
EITI side event on strengthening transparency of resource-backed loans
Where: Dakar, Senegal
When: 18:00 - 19:30 CEST (16:00 - 17:30 local time)
Join online: Zoom link (passcode: 201899)
The African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD III) is an annual forum that brings together political, technical and civic leaders from Africa to deliberate and agree on commitments that safeguard the macroeconomic sustainability of the continent towards achieving the structural transformation espoused in Agenda 2063.
The EITI is hosting a side event, "Resource-backed loans: Risks and opportunities", which brings together organisations working to promote understanding, accountability and transparency of resource-backed loans. The session will introduce the new disclosure requirements of the EITI Standard on resource-backed loans, and will explain how countries and companies can improve their disclosure practices in this area. The session is moderated by Fatma Nyambura, EITI Policy Manager.
Speakers:
- Marit Y. Kitaw, Africa Minerals Development Centre (AMDC)
- Chenai Mukumba, Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA)
- Mohamed Bailor Stevens, African Legal Support Facility (ALSF)
- Papa Alioune Badara Paye, EITI Senegal
Guidance note: Resource-backed loans
This note provides guidance to multi-stakeholder groups (MSGs) on the EITI's requirements on disclosing resource-backed loans.
