Key Regions & Countries

Domestic Resource Mobilisation (DRM) was the first leading action called for by the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development in 2002 and was reaffirmed at the Doha Review Conference in November 2008. There is heightened interest in the topic in the context of the global economic crisis. The North South Institute has been working with African, UK and Canadian partners on a research project on Domestic Resource Mobilization in Sub Saharan Africa. The basic premise is that for sustainable growth and poverty reduction to take place, it is essential that a coherent, dynamic and domestically driven capital accumulation, intermediation and mobilisation process takes root in the region. This is considered necessary over the long-term to wean countries away from excessive dependence on aid and other unpredictable and volatile external flows that can be problematic. The research project has explored the constraints to and potential for greater DRM and the developmental purpose of such efforts through five case studies in: Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.

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