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This keynote speech was delivered on the first day of the Africa's rising debt conference by Dr Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, former Minister of Finance, Liberia, and former director of the African Department at the IMF.

This panel session, the fourth of the Africa's rising debt conference, addresses the following key questions:

- How effective has the implementation of collective action clauses been and what further improvements can be made?

- What challenges does the evolving financing landscape pose to sovereign debt restructuring, particularly the Paris Club and market-based approaches, and what are some possible solutions?

- What incremental steps can be taken to improve the architecture for sovereign debt restructuring to assess legitimacy of debt claims, deal with creditor coordination, address aggressive litigation strategies by 'vulture funds' against sovereign debtors, and link debt restructurings to SDG financing needs and human rights?

This panel session, the third of the Africa's rising debt conference, addresses the following key questions:

- What factors have enabled some sub-Saharan African countries to borrow responsibly following debt relief?

- What challenges does the evolving finance landscape pose to policy-makers in sub-Saharan Africa when it comes to ensuring that the level and rate of growth in their public debt is sustainable?

- How can the providers of technical assistance better suport national authorities to ensure that borrowing is responsible and that risks are better managed in a volatile environment?

This panel session, the second of the Africa's rising debt conference, addresses the following key questions:

- How effective have voluntary guidelines for sustainable and transparent lending been so far and what more can be done as part of the responsible investment agenda?

- What metrics and mechanisms can be applied to monitor whether creditors lend in a sustainable and transparent manner?

- What are the advantages and challenges of state-contingent debt instruments as tools to ensure debt sustainability?

This panel session, the first of the Africa's rising debt conference, addresses the following key questions:

- What are the debt trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa and which countries are most vulnerable to being in debt distress?

- What are the risks for debt sustainability associated with relatively new and less concessional sources of finance?

- How can existing frameworks for monitoring debt vulnerabilities be improved

This event explores how changing gender norms can lead to women's economic empowerment – for women around the world today and for future generations.

This event discusses the drivers of sustainable economic growth in Africa in the context of new global trends.

Drawing on articles in the latest issue of HPN magazine, panellists discuss the opportunities and challenges of working in this protracted Rohingya crisis.

This event, to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, convened leading experts in the fields of growth, social inclusion and climate change to discuss how joining together these key themes can contribute to ending chronic poverty by 2030.

To mark the International Day of Rural Women on 15 October, ODI convened an expert panel to explore this question further. The event includes discussion of new findings from recent research from ODI and the DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme.