Building a Peace Finance ecosystem in Côte d’Ivoire and Mozambique 

In early July, Interpeace convened dialogues with donors and other key actors on Peace Finance in Côte d’Ivoire and Mozambique, two contexts where conflict dynamics are closely related to development issues around equality of livelihoods, access to basic services and resource competition, amongst other factors. These are fast growing low-middle and low income countries where development finance institutions and private investors can have a powerful role affecting conflict dynamics, positively or negatively, and where Peace Finance approaches are particularly opportune.

Interpeace presented the interim findings of a large field-based study to the over 50 local partners and organisations of the Donor Coordination platform in Mozambique on the investment trends, conflict dynamics and opportunities for peace-positive investment in the country. Summary material of this research is available here.

Bumi Camara (AfDB), Alessia Polidoro (Interpeace Abidjan office) and Daniel Hyslop (Finance for Peace/Interpeace) at the African Development Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan.