The session will introduce the topics of the Global Parliamentary Forum, the latest work of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, and highlight the role legislators can play therein. Observance of one minute of silence for the victims of the recent earthquake.

Transforming the supply of green development finance remains at the core of modernising International Financial Institutions, to enable countries to meet both the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. This session will provide an opportunity to take stock of progress, the need for further action, and emerging lessons from across Africa. It will explore how to ensure that domestic reform helps, not hinders, the green transition, maximising the opportunity to capture value from mining the critical minerals needed, along with investment in health and human capital.

The digital opportunity is now becoming ever more important to helping ignite the economic growth needed to help hundreds of millions escape poverty. But maximising the opportunity requires us to guard against technological fragmentation across the world, and ensure strong safeguards are in place to guard against corruption and ensure we maximise new opportunities for domestic resource mobilisation - plus effective plans to re-skill workers for the industries and jobs of the future.

Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people — 2.3 percent of the world’s population — live outside of their country of nationality. Almost half of them are in low- and middle-income countries. As the world struggles to cope with global economic imbalances, diverging demographic trends, and climate change, migration will become a necessity in the decades to come for countries at all levels of income. Future legislation focused on managing migration can allow it to become a force for prosperity that helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.