This study is adopted from the Fifth Expert Group Meeting on Finance for Sustainable Development, held in December 1999, in Nairobi, Kenya. It contains the papers that were presented and discussed at the meeting. The overall theme of the papers is testing new policy approaches in international and domestic finance. They focus mainly on improving the policy framework for sustainable development, new policy approaches in international and domestic finance, and innovative mechanisms in sector finance. The papers cover primarily the Sub-Saharan Africa region.