Engagement
Events & Convenings
The Annual Meetings, three regional forums, the training institutes, and U/Labs technical sessions — the rooms where the coalition’s coordination happens.
- 4
- flagship convenings anchor the annual calendar
- 3
- regional forums — São Paulo, Johannesburg, Hong Kong
- 20+
- countries represented at a typical Annual Meeting
The coalition convenes because coordination is half its mandate. Capital moves through documents, but alignment — between central banks, ministries, regulators, and private investors across three regions — moves through rooms. The convening calendar is built around a small number of recurring institutions rather than a scatter of one-off summits, so that the same people return to the same tables and commitments made in one year are checked in the next.
The Annual Meetings
The coalition’s principal convening brings the Governing Council, member institutions, and invited partners together each year, rotating across the three hub regions so that no capital becomes the default center of gravity.
The Meetings combine the formal — Council sessions, committee reports, adoption of the annual program — with the working: sector roundtables for each of the ten focus verticals, the presentation of the year’s portfolio results, and the launch of the flagship annual report. Outcome communiqués are published in the newsroom within days of closing, because a convening whose conclusions stay in the room did not need the room.
Regional Development Forums
Each hub — São Paulo for the Américas, Johannesburg for África, Hong Kong for Asia — hosts an annual forum focused on its own book: the pipeline, the binding constraints, and the regional priorities that feed the coalition’s program.
The forums are working meetings, not showcases. Sessions pair project sponsors with the investment desk, put underwriting teams in front of prospective counterparties, and give member institutions a structured venue to bring forward the readiness gaps the Preparation Fund exists to close. Much of what appears in the portfolio two years later is first tabled at a regional forum.
The Capacity Development Institutes
The coalition’s training institutes run through the year rather than around a date: multi-week programs for central bank staff, debt-office practitioners, regulators, and public financial managers from member economies.
Cohorts are deliberately cross-regional, so a reserves manager in one hub builds a working relationship with counterparts in the other two. The institutes are described in full on the capacity development page; admission runs through member institutions, and the calendar of cohorts is published each January.
U/Labs Convenings
U/Labs hosts technical convenings on financial infrastructure — payment systems, market plumbing, digital public goods — where the participants are engineers and market operators rather than principals.
These are the smallest rooms on the calendar and often the most consequential: interoperability decisions made at a U/Labs working session shape what the coalition can finance years later. Proceedings are published as technical notes in the resources library.
Participation and accreditation
Coalition convenings are working meetings of a member institution network, and participation follows from that: member institutions receive standing invitations, and partners, researchers, and media are accredited by application.
Speaker proposals for forum sessions are reviewed by the program committee of the relevant convening, and the bar is usefulness: the calendar has no slots for presentations whose purpose is the presenter.
- Member delegations — coordinated through each institution’s designated liaison office.
- Partner institutions and co-financiers — by invitation of the relevant hub or the partnerships team.
- Media — accredited through the newsroom desk for the Annual Meetings and regional forums.
- Researchers and civil society — accredited observer places at the Annual Meetings, applications through the contact page.
Outcomes, published
Every flagship convening produces a public record — communiqués in the newsroom, launched reports in the publications library, technical proceedings in resources — so that the calendar leaves an audit trail rather than an afterglow.
Commitments made at coalition convenings are tracked like any other commitment: they appear in the following year’s program with names attached, and the Annual Meetings open with an accounting of what last year’s room agreed and what became of it. That discipline is what separates a convening institution from a conference brand.
Dates for the current cycle are announced through the newsroom, and delegation, accreditation, and speaker inquiries all route through the contact page to the convening’s program office.
Engagement