Events preview: This week in development cooperation

Below are some of the most noteworthy events for the week starting April 12: Informal Dialogues with Candidates for UN Secretary-General April 12-14 New York, United States World Bank-International Monetary Fund Annual Spring Meetings April 12-17 Washington, D.C., United States Beyond SDG Indicators: Integrated Models Supporting Implementation, Strategy Development and Transition Planning April 12 Online Investor-Corporate Engagement on Anti-Corruption April 13 Online Mashreq Day: Pushing the Frontier in a Conflict-Affected Region April 13 Washington, D.C., United States Sustainable Supply Chains: Through the Lens of the 17 SDGs April 13 Online Polio Eradication: Endgame Challenges, Lessons and Legacy April 13 London, United Kingdom Conflicts of Interest in Public Health and Policy Research: What are the Solutions? April 13 London, United Kingdom Aid Agencies Committed to Transparency: So Who’s Delivered and Who Hasn’t? April 13 Washington, D.C., United States Out of the Shadows: Making Mental Health a Global Priority April 13-14 Washington, D.C., United States Skoll World Forum April 13-15 Oxford, England Innovative Financial Solutions for Today’s Development Challenges April 14 Washington, D.C., United States Gender Equality Community of Practice for Finance Ministers Technical-Level Event: How to Get Results April 14 Washington, D.C., United States Multilateral Development Banks Changing with the Times: A Conversation with EBRD President Suma Chakrabarti April 14 Washington, D.C., United States Syria Crisis Response: Lessons Learned April 14 London, United Kingdom Building Social Cohesion and an Inclusive Economy: A Conversation with South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan April 14 Washington, D.C., United States Universal Health Coverage Annual Financing Forum April 14-15 Washington, D.C., United States UN Reflection Series 2016: Development Cooperation, Policy Advice and MICs April 14-16 Berlin, Germany Bringing the SDGs Closer to the Citizens: Europe’s Commitment to the 2030 Agenda April 15 Barcelona, Spain Competition Policy in Developing Countries: Helping Markets Perform Better April 15 Washington, D.C., United States Powering Up Growth: Ideas for Beating the Slowdown April 15 Washington, D.C., United States The Past in the Present of the Middle East April 15 London, United Kingdom Clean Energy Subsidies and the Global Trading System April 15 Geneva, Switzerland The Role of Sport in Peacebuilding and Post Conflict April 15 Geneva, Switzerland Gender Gaps in Career Dynamics: New International Evidence April 15 Tokyo, Japan Global Infrastructure Forum 2016 April 16 Washington, D.C., United States Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms. The Roots of Impermanence April 18 London, United Kingdom Getting Millions to Learn: What Will it Take to Accelerate Progress on Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals? April 18 Washington, D.C., United States Reviving the Stalled Reconstruction of Gaza April 18 Doha, Qatar The Economic and Social Council Forum on Financing for Development April 18-20 New York, United States Habitat III Regional Meeting - Latin America and the Caribbean April 18-20 Toluca, Mexico InterAction Forum 2016 April 18-20 Washington, D.C., United States The UK Modern Slavery Act: Implications for Global Compact Participants April 19 Online Financing Development in a New Age of Choice April 19 New York, United States Human Rights in Thailand: A Failed Transplant? April 19 London, United Kingdom 2016 Asia Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights April 19-20 Doha, Qatar Geneva Health Forum 2016 — Sustainable and Affordable Innovations in Healthcare April 19-21 Geneva, Switzerland Special Session of the UN General Assembly on the World Drug Problem April 19-21 New York, United States Know of an upcoming event that might be of interest to the international development community? Leave a comment below or email us at news@devex.com. Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.