Summer 2026
Financing Sustainable Development
Dates: June 04, 2026 – July 09, 2026Day/Time: Sunday; Tuesday; Thursday 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Level: 300-Level
Certificate: Global Studies, Sustainability and Climate Solutions
Global Studies certificate requirement: Elective.
Sustainability and Climate Solutions certificate requirement: Elective.
Instructor: Syed Mahfuzur Rahman, BRAC University
The United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico 2002 has become a milestone in international development cooperation in which financing the development process was discussed on a global platform. Later, attempts were made to provide a global framework for financing sustainable development in Doha in 2008 and Addis Ababa in 2015. The Addis Agenda aimed to implement the 2030 Agenda by achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Over time, multiple international and intergovernmental platforms have been created to follow up and review the financing for development outcomes and the way to achieve the SDGs. Domestic public resources, private business, development cooperation, international trade, debt sustainability, systemic issues, and capacity building are the specific action areas of the Addis Agenda. There are various actors with varying levels of interest and political motivation. Academics and practitioners also differ in conceptualizing the working definition of development finance, climate finance, green finance, and/or environmental finance. Hence, this course will prepare the students with sufficient knowledge about international development and financing issues that are usually required to work in multilateral development banks (like ADB and AfDB), major institutional stakeholders of development finance (like World Bank and IMF), and various regional economic commissions (like ESCAP and ESCWA).
Prerequisites: Principles of Finance.
This is session 1 course. Deadline to register is May 29.
Credits: 3 US / 6 ECTS