4. State Parties agree that the major stakeholders of the Development Finance Resource Centre will be: (a) beneficiaries of DFI programmes and Projects; (b) funding agencies, including financial and investment institutions and international co-operating partners; (c) the governments of State Parties. 5. State Parties agree that the main clientele of the Development Finance Resource Centre shall be the DFis. 6. State Parties agree that the Network will in General Meeting determine suitable financing mechanisms, and suitable financing sources for recurrent expenditure, for funding the activities of the Development Finance Resource Centre, including the levying of membership contributions. ARTICLE 9 CO-OPERATION ON PROJECTS IN THE REGION 1. State Parties agree that DFis through the forum of the Network, will cooperate in mobilizing both financial and human resources for purposes of undertaking sustainable development, investment and trade finance projects in the Region. 2. State Parties agree that any DFI in the Network may participate in cross share holding in any other Network member. 3. For purposes of this Article 9, State Parties agree that co-operation on projects includes technical assistance in project identification, prefeasibility and feasibility studies, project development, and technical assistance provided by any DFI during any project cycle. 4. State Parties agree that DFis through the forum of the Network, will harmonize and apply international best practice credit risk management policies, procedures and methodologies to, the appraisal and approval of cross-border and other investment and development projects, and State Parties agree that DFis will consider only sustainable, commercially viable Projects. 5. State Parties agree that if a State Party requests the involvement of a Network member in a non-financially viable but economically important project, such involvement will be carried out on a fee basis by the Network member provided such project is financed through public funds or grant funding derived from fiscal transfers or from multilateral financiers. 6. State Parties agree that when co-operating in the financing of investment Projects in any State Party, the DFis, through the forum of 93

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