On Friday 11 September 2020, from 15:00 to16:15 CET, the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Association of European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) organise the online event 'Team Europe: Joining forces for financing the global recovery'. 

This event is dedicated to Team Europe’s response to the recovery in emerging and developing economies, the response of European financial institutions to COVID-19 and their coordination initiatives. It will focus on the European Commission’s recent proposals to strengthen existing and future external instruments, which will help development finance institutions to do even more to address the healthcare crisis and the socio-economic challenges caused by the pandemic in emerging and developing ;

Three specific topics will be explored:

• Team Europe: Partnerships for impact, cooperation and co-financing instruments ( mutual reliance, European Financing Partners for COVID-19, Vienna Bank Coordination Initiative,…)
• Countercyclical measures: Resources mobilisation, leveraging, guarantees, innovative approaches and engagements, the EU’s recovery package and the amended multiannual financial framework proposal ( EFSD, NDICI), ensuring an effective EU development finance architecture.
• Transformative agenda: Support climate action and digital transition, human development (education, health), food security, gender, reinforce resilience and address the poverty gap.
   

Keynote speech

• Mrs. Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships

Panel Discussion

• Mr. Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President of the EIB
• Mr. Jurgen Rigterink, acting President of the EBRD
• Mr. Bruno Wenn, Chair of EDFI

Introduced and moderated by Dr. San Bilal, Senior Executive, ECDPM