About FFD4

The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), is scheduled to take place from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Seville, Spain.

FFD4 aspires to build a renewed global financing framework that will unlock greater volumes of capital at a lower cost, building on previous financing agreements.  The draft outcome calls for actions to deliver an impact-focused SDG investment push and to reform the international financial architecture to enable the transformative change that the world urgently needs.
 

Preparatory Process for FFD4

Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee 

General Assembly resolution 78/231 established an intergovernmental Preparatory Committee to make the organizational, procedural and substantive preparations for the Conference, with a Bureau consisting of three members from each regional group.  

The Committee adopted the annotated provisional agenda of its work and a draft decision on further modalities of the Conference during the organizational session.  

Subsequent sessions of the Preparatory Committee are being held as follows: 

• First session: Addis Ababa from 22 to 26 July 2024
• Second session: New York from 3-6 December 2024
• Third session: New York from 10-14 February 2025
• Fourth session: New York from 30 April - 1 May 2025  

A one-day intersessional Multistakeholder Hearing was convened in New York on 28 October 2024, as part of the preparatory process for the Conference. 

The Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee is Co-Chaired by the following Permanent Representatives of the Committee:

H.E. Mr. Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Permanent Representative of Burundi to the UN and 
H.E. Mr. Rui Vinhas, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN 

The Vice-Chairs of the Preparatory Committee elected from each regional group were: 

• African States: South Africa and Zambia.
• Asia-Pacific States: China, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nepal and Pakistan serve as a Vice-Chairs on a rotational basis.  
• Eastern European States: Poland and the Russian Federation.
• Latin American and Caribbean States: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico
• Western European and other States: Canada and Norway. 

On 19 June 2024, the Co-Chairs of the FFD4 Preparatory Committee announced that Mexico, Nepal, Norway and Zambia would co-facilitate the negotiations of the FFD4 outcome document.