Capacity Development Talk: Together We Rise: How Partnership Underpins Revenue Mobilization

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Capacity Development Talk: Together We Rise: How Partnership Underpins Revenue Mobilization

Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025 | 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM

Location: Cedar Hall HQ1-1-660

OVERVIEW

With aid levels falling and debt levels rising, low- and middle-income countries increasingly rely on domestic resources to finance the development agenda set in part by the Seville Commitment of June 2025. Capacity development is often critical for progress. The IMF’s innovative Revenue Mobilization Thematic Fund helped countries increase revenue collection until its conclusion in 2024, and now it’s time to reflect on how those successes have changed the future of capacity development. Join us to hear country leaders and our development partners explain why it thrived and show what insights shaped the next generation of partnership-powered capacity development—the Global Public Finance Partnership.

OPENING REMARKS

Franck Bousquet

Deputy Director, Institute for Capacity Development, IMF

Franck Bousquet is Deputy Director of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development, overseeing the IMF’s global partnerships. Previously, he was the deputy director coordinating the IMF’s engagement with fragile and conflict-affected states, leading the preparation of the related strategy, approved by the Executive Board in March 2022. Before joining the IMF, he was the senior director of the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group. Mr. Bousquet has also several years of leadership experience in low- and middle- income countries in Africa and the Middle East, including significant work on resilience and reconstruction issues. He led an international effort providing for the first-time concessional financing to middle-income countries facing refugee crises. He previously held roles in the public and private sectors, focused on sustainable development, finance and capital markets. He holds an MBA with a specialization in finance from Columbia Business School and a graduate diploma in engineering from France.

SPEAKERS

Louis-Paul Motazé

Minister, Ministry of Finance of Cameroon

Louis-Paul Motazé is the Minister of Finance of Cameroon. He has served in his position since March 2018, after a career spanning public administration, finance, and economic planning. He has been a key figure in Cameroon’s fiscal and structural reforms. A graduate of the National School of Administration and Magistracy, he also holds advanced degrees in public law and international transport from French institutions. He has held senior roles in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Motazé previously served as Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, and as Secretary General of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Marjeta Jager

Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)

Marjeta Jager is Deputy Director-General for the Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA). Ms. Jager has been working in the European Commission since 2005, starting as Director for Security in DG Energy and Transport and later being Director for international energy and transport files and coordination, as well as being Head of Cabinet of the Transport Commissioner. Before joining the Commission, Ms. Jager was for more than a decade working on the accession of Slovenia to the EU for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and she was the first Deputy Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the EU.

Rebecca Sparkman

Deputy Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Rebecca A. Sparkman is Deputy Division Chief at the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department. Ms. Sparkman leads capacity development in both tax and customs administration across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Before joining the IMF in 2016, Ms. Sparkman had a 29-year career with the US Internal Revenue Service, including senior executive appointments as the Special Agent in Charge of the Washington DC Field Office and Director of Operations, Policy and Support.

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