Being invited by the Co-Chairs, Debapriya Bhattacharya, Chair of Southern Voice and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh has joined the Advisory Group on the monitoring framework of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC).
Recently he has also joined the Expert Thematic Group of the E15 Initiative on Trade, Finance and Development. E15 is implemented jointly by International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and World Economic Forum. The Expert Group on Trade, Finance and Development is co-convened with the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
On 20-21 May 2015, he attended the First Meeting of GPEDC’s Monitoring Advisory Group in New York, which addressed three tracks of work: pilot indicators; strengthening the second monitoring round; and review of the monitoring framework to ensure its relevance to the post-2015 context.
The group has been established to provide technical expertise and advice to strengthen the Global Partnership’s monitoring framework and to ensure its relevance to the post-2015 context and comprises of 12 high-level technical experts from governments of both programme countries and development partners, think tanks, civil society organisations (CSOs) and private sector.
