The 7th Round Table on Sustainable Development

Improving the Synergies between ODA and FDI flows

28 February - 28 March 2002

• Background Paper:  Official Development Assistance and Foreign Direct Investment: Improving the Synergies
• Agenda
• Chairman’s Summary
• Outcome: The Round Table worked with the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD), private sector representatives and government officials from ODA Agencies to follow-up the ideas emerging from the February meeting. This led to a detailed report on how to improve the linkages between FDI flows and ODA delivery. WBCSD tabled this report in Johannesburg as one of its primary inputs into the WSSD process and seeks to implement the key conclusions of the report.
• Ministerial Attendance: 13