“We are worried that in the next few months we could see more infrastructure and mining-based projects going to Haiti instead of humanitarian, or in addition to humanitarian aid.”
Why it mattersThat sentence is Virginie Pochon of the Haitian civil-society group GAFE, quoted in the piece, and the worry in it treats investment and aid as rivals — a fear Haiti has earned, but not the real problem. These deals rarely go wrong because the investor was aggressive; they go wrong where the sovereign side of the table is weak. Haiti’s minerals will be priced by somebody. The only question worth asking about Global Gateway in Port-au-Prince is whether it leaves Haiti more able to negotiate the next deal in its own name, or less.
Michael Igoe with Yemi Osinbajo · Devex Podcast · Theory of Change ·
Why it mattersCountry ownership is the phrase everyone signs and almost nobody prices. The test is not whether a government agreed with the plan — it is whether the instrument can be issued in their own name, on their own balance sheet, under their own law. Measured that way, a great deal of what gets called country-led is still someone else’s paper with a national crest on it. Osinbajo is worth an hour because he has sat on the sovereign side of that table.
David Passarelli and Michael Franczak · Devex Opinion ·
“Across the U.N. system, agencies are experimenting with new financing models to mobilize additional capital and extend the impact of scarce public resources.”
Why it mattersThe experiments are real, and the piece is right to say so. What it leaves open is which of them a particular finance ministry can actually use next year — and that distance, between a financing model and a financing plan a country can sign, is the work.
Nothing in the Newswire matches that. Try a different term, or clear the search.
The reading becomes the writing.
An item here about a new facility becomes an entry in the instrument library, and a year of them becomes the annual.
