{"id":82311,"date":"2017-07-06T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=71d07ea14f4064b5978d6cd7581f3b66"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:56:00","slug":"press-release-cdc-launch-new-strategy-to-boost-long-term-prosperity-in-africa-and-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82311","title":{"rendered":"Press release: CDC launch new strategy to boost long-term prosperity in Africa and South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CDC \u2013 the UK\u2019s and world\u2019s oldest development finance institution \u2013 has today launched a new 5 year strategy that sets out how it will direct more investment into conflict and fragile states, drive innovation and improve its development impact and accountability.<\/p>\n

The new strategy will ensure CDC can continue to make pioneering investments to create the jobs and opportunities needed to fight poverty in the hardest to reach places, and cement CDC at the heart of the UK\u2019s work, promoting responsible, private investment to stimulate economic growth in the poorest countries.<\/p>\n

In the last 3 years, businesses backed by CDC in Africa and South Asia have created over 3 million new jobs and generated over $9 billion worth of local tax revenue, helping support improvements to public services like health and education.<\/p>\n

The new 5 year strategy, which will be launched by CDC\u2019s new CEO, Nick O\u2019Donohoe, builds on recent successes and addresses important issues raised by previous independent audits, development NGOs and Parliament.<\/p>\n

CDC will continue to focus on creating jobs in Africa and South Asia and within these regions, on fragile and conflict affected countries such as DRC and Sierra Leone. CDC is committed to maximising its development impact through new and innovative approaches that can transform whole sectors \u2013 for instance increasing access to affordable medicines and developing clean off-grid solar technology.<\/p>\n

The strategy keeps job creation at its heart, but broadens CDC\u2019s impact goals to include women\u2019s economic empowerment and climate change.<\/p>\n

The strategy also commits CDC to increased levels of reporting on investments and achievements, making more data available online, improving transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n

International Development Minister Lord Bates said:<\/p>\n

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Creating jobs and boosting prosperity in the poorest countries is a hallmark of Global Britain, furthering our national interests by developing our trading partners of the future.<\/p>\n

CDC uses its expertise to invest in growing businesses that can create more and better jobs, tackle poverty and reduce aid dependency. And this is fundamentally about people. By strengthening infrastructure, businesses and markets, CDC is helping individuals find work so they can feed their families and send their children to school.<\/p>\n

We have radically transformed CDC over the last 5 years to ensure their investments are targeted where they are needed most, and the new strategy reflects our shared ambitions for the organisation to have the greatest impact for the world\u2019s poorest and deliver value for money for UK taxpayers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Developing country markets have huge potential to become the UK\u2019s trading partners of the future and to contribute to global prosperity. However, there is a currently a huge shortage of the investment needed to stimulate this growth.<\/p>\n

The additional financing needed to achieve the UN Global Goals by 2030 is estimated at $2.5 trillion every year, but current investment levels are less than half of that. CDC is pivotal in forging the path for future investment by demonstrating that it is possible to invest responsibly and successfully in the hardest \u2013to-reach places, encouraging more much-needed private sector capital to flow into these countries.<\/p>\n

CDC, which is wholly owned by the UK government, uses its skills and expertise to support over 1200 businesses in over 70 of the poorest countries.<\/p>\n

Every penny of profit generated by CDC is reinvested \u2013 this makes every penny of UK taxpayers\u2019 money go even further.<\/p>\n

Since 2012 all of CDC\u2019s investments have been focused in developing countries in Africa and Asia – where 80% of the world\u2019s poorest live – and where it can have the greatest impact for the world\u2019s poorest and deliver value for money for UK taxpayers.<\/p>\n

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CDC\u2019s new strategy builds on their recent reforms and strong track record to support more growing businesses and empower more people in the poorest countries to work their way out of poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82324,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82311\/revisions\/82324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}