GFDD and FUNGLODE Collaborate on United Nations Panel Exploring Empowerment Tools for Social Development

GFDD and FUNGLODE, in partnership with Social Justice in Global Development, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNSRID) Loretto community, and Members of the Committee on Financing for Development, will collaborate on a Side Event during the 51st Session of the Commission for Social Development United Nations NLB, Conference Room C, on Monday 11 February, 2013, from 1:15pm to 2:30pm.

On behalf of
GFDD and FUNGLODE, we are pleased to announce that, Mrs. Germania Montas, Sub-director of General Directorate of Internal Taxes in the Dominican Republic will report on best practices in tax administration for sustained revenue increases for social development.

The 51st Session of the Commission for Social Development, which this year convenes, 6-15 February, 2013, is focusing on the theme of people””””s empowerment as an important foundation for social development
through poverty eradication and decent work for all.

Governments play the key role in creating an enabling environment for human development and shaping policies that affect people’s economic and social wellbeing. Achieving human development, however, requires adequate levels of public expenditure allocations. Huge shortfalls in funding for social development have persistently plagued development budgets of many developing countries over the years, resulting in the lack
of fiscal and policy space to implement National Development Plans.

This Panel Discussion will focus on the constraints to effective resource mobilization faced by many developing country governments, and explore how policies can be shaped to ensure efficient financing for health, education, social protection floors, and in support of decent work objectives.

About: Policy Space through
Domestic Resource Mobilization – a Key to Empowerment for Social Development
United Nations NLB, Conference Room C
New York, NY 10017
Monday, 11 February, 2013, from 1:15pm to 2:30pm

Moderator: Gemma Adaba, Social Justice in Global Development

Panelists:
Germania Montas, General
Sub-director of General Direction of Internal Taxes (DGII, in Spanish), Strategic and Technological Planning, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development
Sarah Cook, Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network, Social Justice in Global Development.

For more information see flyer;
or margaret@globalfoundationdd.org