Asset Return: How can the Return of Stolen Assets Contribute to the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals? What can be Learnt from Past Experiences?

  • Date: 15 July 2015, 6:15pm - 7:45pm
  • Location: Elilly Discovery Hall

Organised by

Governments of Ethiopia, the Philippines, UK and Switzerland

Summary

The purpose of the side event is threefold: First, raising awareness on the hard facts on stolen asset recovery and its expectations. Secondly, the event will discuss examples of successful asset returns and their benefits and will seek to identify the role and needs of different stakeholders in the process of asset return, and in particular how to build trust and transparency throughout the process.. And thirdly, it will broaden the policy debate aiming at identifying good practices on asset return to maximize its benefit for the new Financing for Development Framework.

The following questions will guide the event:

How can the implementation of the Addis Ababa outcome document better facilitate that asset returns are used to foster sustainable development?

What are most urgently needed capacities in developing countries to recover stolen assets?

What are emerging good practices to ensure that asset recovery in general and the return of assets in particular support the FfD financing framework Post-2015?

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