MEFMI's cooperating partners fall into three categories: Financial Cooperating Partners, Technical Cooperating Partners and Networking Partners.
Financial Cooperating Partners
Financial Cooperating Partners fund MEFMI's capacity-building activities to supplement member countries' contributions. The Financial Cooperating Partners currently funding MEFMI are The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and The World Bank.
Technical Cooperating Partners
Technical Cooperating Partners provide gratis or subsidised expertise, attachments and course attendance to staff and Fellows, and other in-kind support to the capacity-building programmes. They include:
- The World Bank (WB) and its institute (WBI), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its institute (IMFI), and the Commonwealth Secretariat (COMSEC)
- The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its affiliate committees, the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the Centre for Central Banking Studies (CCBS) of the Bank of England
- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Reserve Board, the Financial Stability Institute (FSI), the Africa Regional Technical Assistance Centre (AFRITAC), and FSD Africa
In addition, several major international commercial banks — including the Bank of New York, State Street Global Advisors, Barclays Bank plc, the Standard Bank of South Africa, Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of South Africa — have provided gratis expertise.
Networking Partners
Networking Partners are organisations whose resource persons and other services are paid for by MEFMI. They include the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, Crown Agents, Debt Relief International (DRI), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the National Treasury of South Africa.