Increasing the micro-impact of remittances on development

This session will discuss tools and incentives that may be defined by governments- in partnership with other stakeholders- in order to make remittance-related savings benefit more than their sole recipients.

A special attention will be paid in this session on the gender aspect of remittances. This session will aim to produce models for multi-stakeholder partnerships and medium term recommendations.

Chair : Mr. Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez - Executive Director of the Institute of the Mexicans outside the Country
Speaker: Mr. Arun Kashyap, Advisor, Private Sector Development,
Capacity Development Group/Private Sector Division, UNDP
Discussant 1: Mrs. Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen Project Coordinator for International Migration and Development, Norway
Discussant 2: Ms. Anne-Françoise Lefevre, Adviser to the Chairman of the Management Committee, World Savings Banks Institute
Rapporteur: Mr. Seringe Dieye, Director of Chancery, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Senegal

Background paper session 2.2 Date added: Wed, 27/06/2007 - 17:01 Download

Basic fact sheet of remittances Date added: Wed, 27/06/2007 - 17:42 Download