FFD4 IATF Policy Briefs - Addressing Systemic Issues | Financing for Sustainable Development Office

Organization	Brief
ESCAP	"Addressing Representation Issues of Developing Countries in International Financial Institutions" Summary: Voting right imbalances persist in international financial institutions with respect to the population and size of the economy of their member states. Aiming for greater influence on financing policy decisions impacting developing countries, Asia-Pacific member states should continue on institutional reform discussions. However, strengthening of regional financial institutions in parallel as a complementary approach. Read the Brief Action Areas: Addressing Systemic Issues; International Development Cooperation; Cross-Cutting Issues
ESCAP	"Enhancing Synergies Between Global Commitments and Aligning Financial Flows" Summary: This brief focuses on the importance of strengthening the coherence and consistency of the international development system with respect to financing sustainable development and climate ambitions. It highlights the fragmented approaches to financing currently prevalent and underscores the need to integrate international commitments regarding sustainable development and climate ambitions with national investment planning and financing processes. A similar integrated approach is called for at the global level as well. Read the Brief Action Areas: Domestic and International Private Business and Finance; Addressing Systemic Issues; International Development Cooperation
ESCAP	"Addressing Public Debt Sustainability Concerns" Summary: Public debt distress has three distinct underlying causes which should be evaluated and addressed differently. Similarly, traditional bilateral, non-traditional bilateral and commercial creditors have shared but differentiated responsibilities in sovereign debt restructuring. Proper resolution of sovereign debt distress should ideally be guided by these two principles/realities, while continuing with pragmatic second-best approaches. Debtor countries should also hold their side of the bargain by ensuring accountable and productive use of borrowed funds and effective public debt management. Read the Brief Action Areas: Debt and Debt Sustainability; Addressing Systemic Issues; Domestic Public Resources
ESCAP	"Strengthening Domestic Public Resources" Summary: Asia-Pacific experience suggests a central role of rationalized tax structure, strengthened tax administration, and reduced wasteful tax exemptions in episodes of swift tax revenue enhancement. Nevertheless, to achieve greater and sustained results in the longer term, broader socioeconomic progress and improvements in public governance are equally indispensable. Meanwhile, better exploration of tax potentials of direct income and wealth taxes and of the region’s booming real estate markets will be key for further public revenue enhancement. Read the Brief Action Areas: Domestic Public Resources; Addressing Systemic Issues; Cross-Cutting Issues
ESCAP	"Accelerating the Mobilization of Domestic and International Private Finance Towards the Sustainable Development Goals" Summary: This brief focuses on the importance of strengthening financial regulations that can accelerate private financing towards the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region. The brief puts forward actions to deepen banking and capital markets in Asia and the Pacific, as well as outlines a new approach that combines concessional and private finance in the least developed countries in Asia and the Pacific. Read the Brief Action Areas: Domestic and International Private Business and Finance; Debt and Debt Sustainability; Addressing Systemic Issues
GCF	"Innovative Approaches to Mobilizing Climate Finance" Summary: This policy brief explores innovative approaches to mobilizing climate finance, focusing on both public and private sector contributions. It highlights the urgent need for scalable finance solutions, given global economic volatility and rising debt levels in developing countries. Key solutions include unlocking alternative funding sources, leveraging debt restructuring, scaling blended finance, and utilizing innovative financial instruments. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) plays a critical role in catalyzing such investments and driving climate action, particularly in support of the most vulnerable. Read the Brief Action Areas: Domestic and International Private Business and Finance; Addressing Systemic Issues; Debt and Debt Sustainability
GCF	"Reform of the International Financial Architecture to Tackle Global Challenges" Summary: The global finance landscape remains fragmented, insufficient, and not fit-for-purpose, limiting access for developing countries most in need. Urgent reforms are required to simplify access, scale up concessional finance, and mobilize private sector capital through blended finance mechanisms. Strengthening country ownership and improving transparency across financial flows are key priorities. The Fourth Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) should advocate for these reforms to close the sustainable development finance gap and accelerate progress toward global goals, especially for vulnerable and low-income countries. FFD4 must be the running point that transforms global financing landscape into a truly inclusive, scalable, impactable, fit-for-purpose and sustainable engine for achieving the SDGs, Post-2015 development Agenda, and Paris Agreement goals by 2030. Read the Brief Action Areas: Addressing Systemic Issues; International Development Cooperation; Domestic and International Private Business and Finance
IATF Gender Cluster	"Financing for Gender Equality" Read the Brief Action Areas: Cross-Cutting Issues; Domestic Public Resources; Addressing Systemic Issues
ILO	"Scaling up the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions" Read the Brief Action Areas: Addressing Systemic Issues; Domestic and International Private Business and Finance; Cross-Cutting Issues
INFF	"Making Finance work for People and Planet - Strengthening Country Financing Systems through Integrated National Financing Frameworks" Read the Brief Action Areas: Domestic and International Private Business and Finance, Systemic Issues
OECD	"Financing in Contexts Facing Extreme to High Fragility" Read the Brief Action Areas: Addressing Systemic Issues, International Development Cooperation
OHCHR	"Keeping Global Financing Promises: Advancing Development, Human Rights, and International Cooperation" Read the Brief Action Areas: Addressing Systemic Issues, International Development Cooperation
PRI	"A Legal Framework for Impact" Summary: This briefing is part of the Financing Policy Brief Series developed by PRI and other members of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development. The objective of the briefing is to inform the substantive preparations for the Fourth Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Read the Brief Action Areas: Domestic and International Private Business and Finance; Systemic Issues
UNFPA	"Demographic Change and its Implications for the Financing of Development" Summary: Demographic change is one of the most powerful yet largely neglected factors shaping financing for sustainable development. It not only has implications for the expenditure side of public and private budgets, but also for the revenue side, and thus on budgets and debt. This brief makes the case for systematic consideration of demographic change and other megatrends in planning and budget processes of countries. Read the Brief Action Areas: Addressing Systemic Issues, Cross-Cutting Issues
UNODC, IMF, WB	"Combating Financial Crime and Improving Global Financial Integrity for Enhanced Domestic Resource Mobilization and Inclusive Economic Growth Outcomes" Summary: To make measurable progress in combatting illicit financial flows related to the proceeds of crime Member States should prioritize preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism, including in the outcomes of the Fourth Financing for Development Conference and resolutions. Financial crime has direct negative macroeconomic impacts and preventing it is foundational to sustainable development. It can only be addressed through a whole of government approach. Safeguarding payments and remittance flows, developing stable and inclusive financial sectors capable of supporting inclusive economic growth and protecting domestic resource mobilization all require a foundation of financial integrity grounded in effective, risk-based Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) frameworks. Read the Brief Action Areas: Domestic Public Resources, Addressing Systemic Issues

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Brief

ESCAP

"Addressing Representation Issues of Developing Countries in International Financial Institutions"

Summary: Voting right imbalances persist in international financial institutions with respect to the population and size of the economy of their member states. Aiming for greater influence on financing policy decisions impacting developing countries, Asia-Pacific member states should continue on institutional reform discussions. However, strengthening of regional financial institutions in parallel as a complementary approach.