WHAT IS DEBT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL (DRI)?
Debt Relief International is part of the Development Finance Group. DRI is a non-profit organisation funded by seven OECD governments (Austria, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom). We were established in July 1997 to run a programme to build the capacity of the governments of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) to manage their own debt strategy and analysis, without having to rely on international technical assistance. We have a total budget for 1997-2004 of US$28 million, and are currently working with 36 of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries. For more details of past, current and future events in the programme, see our calendar of events. We assist governments in many different ways: • demand assessment missions where we help them to assess their need and demand for capacity-building assistance on institutional reform, operational external and domestic debt management, debt renegotiations, new financing policies (external and domestic debt,
