Seminar on the Role of Infrastructure Finance and Newer Development Banks

Seminar on the Role of Infrastructure Finance and Newer Development Banks

for

 Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing

 A peoples’ response to AIIB’s Annual Meeting

Invitation

A seminar is being organised on the Role of Infrastructure Finance and Newer Development Banks on the 7^th of June at Gandhi Peace Foundation at 2:00PM. The seminar is being organised by the Delhi chapter of the Working Groups on International Financial Institutions. It will be a build-up to the larger People’s Convention of Infrastructure Financing that is being organised in Mumbai (21^st-23^rd June) as a counter to Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank’s 3^rd Annual Meeting (25^th-26^th June).

As the youngest multilateral development bank on the bloc, AIIB will be using its meeting to project itself as a complementary entity to the already established developmental institutions rather than as a competitor. Civil Society cannot let this Annual Meeting happen without raising critical concerns about a growth-led development that AIIB purports to prioritize. The People’s Convention on Infrastructure Financing is a window of opportunity for peoples’ movements to disrupt AIIB’s alleged priorities by holding them accountable, transparent, and responsible with their investments. 

The People’s Convention will bring together groups and affected communities from across the country to discuss their vision of development. The Convention will also share stories of resistance and alternate visions on development along with demanding constitutional guarantees regarding meaningful and informed consultations and rights of communities in planning and development. Various workshops will be held on urban development, transportation, coastal protection and coastal communities, sustainable energy and equity, against privatization along with groups monitoring financial institutions and their policies and projects in the country.

The seminar in Delhi hopes to address, discuss, debate various issues related to the infrastructure financing and the role of international financial institutions. The following are the themes that the talk will cover:

1. Role of IFIs with a focus on the New Development Banks
2. Geopolitics influences international financing.
3. Questions around Infrastructure finance

Venue: Gandhi Peace Foundation, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi-110001.

Time: 2:00PM

The seminar will be addressed by: 

1. Soumya Dutta (PAIRVI)
2. Sridhar Ramamurthy (ENVIRONICS)
3. Rajendra Ravi (NAPM).

 

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