Practical workshop exploring how COVID, Climate and Globalisation are disrupting traditional finance structures and how public and private institutions can cooperate to tackle gaps for trade, liqudity and essential infrastructure
This workshop will explore the changing environment in which the 'marketplace' of international trade and development finance is operating.
We will discuss the response to the COVID-19 crisis from public and private sector institutions and explore together the practical implications for two specific gaps in finance of trade and economic development:
The background to the workshop is defined by the macro-level changes driven by COVID, climate change and globalisation, as well as the international policy-context these entail, but the focus of the discussions will be on practical opportunities for cross-sector cooperation between practitioners in:
Participants will be assigned groups according to their background and time zone and asked to brainstorm views on topics set to compliment the discussions from Monday.
Group facilitators will organise a suitable method for the group to exchange views (email, video call etc.) and will collect feedback from their group for further discussion on 10th December.
The full group will reconvene on Thursday for a shorter session online during whichthe group facilitators will present feedback on each discussion and compare responses across all participants.
After this, final questions, wrap up and next steps for future CSM exchanges.
Throughout the webinar we will provide participants with an opportunity to share experiences and ask questions. The broad topics addressed will include:
Please contact pheaney@berneunion.org if you are interested in contributing to this initiative
Registration for the meeting is via the Berne Union website. Please subit your details here:
CSM Online Workshop Registration