Annual General Assembly 2025 – High-Level Discussion Panel

| 12 December 2025 | Hybrid |

12 December 2025 | 9:20 – 11:20 (CET) | European Commission, Brussels and WebX

“Evolving Roles in a Fragmented Aid Landscape”

Background

The session will explore how development actors can stay effective in an increasingly fragmented aid landscape marked by shrinking ODA budgets, shifting financial reforms, and new demands for impact.

Speakers will reflect on how their institutions are adapting roles and responsibilities, from engaging more strategically with the private sector to shaping collaborative financing mechanisms that actually work in practice.

Agenda
9:50-11:20High-Level Discussion Panel

  • Evolving roles in a fragmented aid landscape: Navigating ODA reductions and financial reforms, expanding private sector engagement, and building effective collaborative financing mechanisms


Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, FAO


Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, GAIN


Alice Ruhweza, President, AGRA


Tom Arnold, Chair, IARDC

Stefania Lenoci, World Bank Group Resident Representative to Italy

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