# Development Finance Source Kit

Use this kit when you want to understand how a country is financing itself, which institutions matter, and where the pressure points sit.

## Best use case

Track debt, fiscal strategy, donor influence, project financing, or lender relationships without getting lost in scattered PDFs and press releases.

## Research prompt

Map the development finance landscape for [country].

Structure:
1. Executive summary.
2. Current financing pressures.
3. Main lenders, donors, and multilaterals.
4. Debt story: composition, rollover risk, or restructuring questions.
5. Fiscal strategy and likely constraints.
6. FX, reserves, and external financing pressure.
7. Politically sensitive financing decisions.
8. What to monitor over the next 2 quarters.
9. Source list.

Rules:
- Distinguish grants, concessional loans, commercial borrowing, and domestic borrowing.
- Explain which institutions are providing money and which are shaping policy conditions.
- Note where public messaging and financing reality diverge.

## Source checklist

- Ministry of Finance
- Debt management office
- Central bank
- Budget speech and fiscal framework
- IMF country page and debt sustainability analysis
- World Bank country pages and project database
- African Development Bank country and project pages
- Paris Club or restructuring announcements if relevant
- Official gazettes, procurement portals, or public investment plans
- Reuters, Bloomberg, and strong domestic reporting

## Questions to ask your model

- What are the top 3 financing vulnerabilities?
- Which creditor relationships matter most politically?
- What near-term event could force a policy reset?
- Which numbers are essential to update every quarter?
- What assumptions in official narratives deserve the most skepticism?

## NotebookLM setup

Upload:
- Budget documents
- Latest IMF material
- Central bank releases
- Debt statistics
- Two or three project or donor strategy documents
- One independent media explainer

Then ask:
- Summarize the financing model in plain English.
- Where is the biggest mismatch between rhetoric and constraints?
- What would I brief an executive on in under 2 minutes?

## Output idea

Use the results to build a lender map, a donor brief, or an internal dashboard for country-risk and development strategy monitoring.