28 OCTOBER
FfD4 Multistakeholder Hearing
Organized by: FSDO | Location: CR-2
Time: 10:00-13:00 EST, 15:00-18:00 EST | More Info
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GISD Strategy Group Meeting
Organized by: FSDO | Location: S-1522/23 (closed)
Time: 8:00-11:00 EST | More Info
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FFD4 Private Sector Stakeholder Hearing
Organized by: FSDO | Location: CR-2 (closed)
Time: 11:30-12:30 EST
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GISD Strategy Group Meeting
Organized by: FSDO | Location: S-1522/23
Time: 14:00-17:00 EST | More Info
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Reforming Credit Ratings for Climate Resilience: A Pathway to Fair Financing for SIDS and LDCs
Organized by: Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, and Maldives, International Institute for Environment and Development | Location: CR-8, Hybrid
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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Making Finance Work for People and Planet: How FfD4 can strengthen country leadership on financing through integrated national financing frameworks
Organized by: Government of Spain and INFF Facility (UNDP, UNDESA, UNICEF, OECD, EU, Italy, Spain, Sweden) | Location: CR-9
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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FfD4: Civil Society Checklist for Member States
Organized by: Civil Society FfD Mechanism | Location: CR-E
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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Scaling-up financing for gender equality in a world of crisis
Organized by: UN-Women | Location: CR-F
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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Financing for Development that Empowers Youth and Women: Leveraging AI for Financial Inclusion and Supply Chain Transparency in Sustainable Development
Organized by: Women of Youth Advancement Inc, Margo James Funds Inc, Green Tent Circle, Animal Wisdom Speaks, ADAM ftd | Location: Virtual
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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29 OCTOBER
Strengthening the capacity of experts from LDCs to engage in the intergovernmental negotiations on FfD4 Day (Day 1)
Organized by: FSDO and OHRLLS | Location: CR-11 (closed)
Time: 10:00-18:00 EST
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6th Annual GISD Alliance Meeting
Organized by: FSDO | Location: CR-6 (Closed)
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST | More Info
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Towards a UN-Member States led MDBs Reform
Organized by: Civil Society FfD Mechanism | Location: CR-D
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST
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Financing Digital Infrastructure: Collaborative approaches for a connected future
Organized by: International Telecommunication Union, UNICEF; Governments of Spain and Brazil | Location: CR-9, Hybrid
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST | More Info
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Outcomes-Based Financing: Multi-stakeholder perspectives on accelerating SDG progress by linking funding to results
Organized by: Outcomes Finance Alliance Secretariat, OECD | Location: S-1520, Hybrid
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST | Register
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Financing for Impactful Results: Options to advance Locally Relevant Action on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace
Organized by: Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Transparency, Accountability and Participation Network, and the Quaker UN Office, Permanent Missions of Sweden and Sierra Leone to the UN | Location: Quaker House (247 E 48th St.), Hybrid
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST | Register
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Breaking the SDG finance gridlock through strengthening local government finance
Organized by: UNDP, UNCDF, UNDESA and United Cities and Local Governments | Location: S-1521, Hybrid
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST | Register
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Towards a UN Convention on International Development Cooperation
Organized by: Civil Society FfD Mechanism | Location: CR-E
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST
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Moving from monitoring to substance: Why data and statistics are integral to the FFD agenda and how to make it real
Organized by: Governments of Canada, Norway, Sierra Leone, UK, UN Statistics Division, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data | Location: CR-9, Hybrid
Time: 10:00-11:30 EST
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Breaking the SDG finance gridlock through strengthening local government finance
Organized by: UNDP, UNCDF, UNDESA and United Cities and Local Governments | Location: S15-21, Virtual
Time: 11:30-13:00 EST
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Safeguarding development funds: mainstreaming anticorruption in the FfD Agenda
Organized by: Transparency International, African Union, Government of Spain and UNDP | Location: S15-20
Time: 11:30-13:00 EST
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Towards a UN Convention on International Development Cooperation
Organized by: Civil Society FfD Mechanism | Location: CR–E
Time: 11:30-13:00 EST
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Levelling the playing field: how company transparency drives financing for development
Organized by: Open Ownership and UNODC | Location: Virtual Zoom registration link
Time: 11:30-13:00 EST | Register
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Moving from monitoring to substance: Why data and statistics are integral to the FFD agenda and how to make it real
Organized by: Governments of Canada, Norway, Sierra Leone, UK, UN Statistics Division, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data | Location: DC2-2330, Hybrid
Time: 11:30-13:00 EST
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GISD Alliance Meeting with FfD4 Preparatory Committee Bureau
Organized by: FSDO | Location: CR-6 (closed)
Time: 11:45-12:45 EST | More Info
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Strengthening Science, Technology and Innovation for Achieving the SDGs: Drawing Lessons from the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism and Innovative Financing Models
Organized by: UN IATT, DESA/DSDG | Location: S-26MM2, Hybrid
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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Transparency, Anticorruption and Asset Recovery to Mobilize and Safeguard Financing for Development
Organized by: UNCAC Coalition, Open Contracting Partnership, Open Ownership, FACT Coalition, Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative | Location: S-1520, Hybrid
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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Strengthening the accountability of global commitments through support of Supreme Audit Institutions
Organized by: INTOSAI Development Initiative, Global Affairs Canada | Location: S-1521, Hybrid
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST
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Resilience in the Face of Disasters: The Role of Social Protection, Financial and Digital Inclusion, and Inclusive Climate Finance
Organized by: NGO Committee on Financing for Development, Women First International Fund, Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Loreto Generalate, The Inclusivity Project, International Federation of Social Workers, VIVAT International, Sisters of Charity Federation, World Vision, All Pakistan Women's Association, and Conference of NGOs | Location: Hybrid, Baha'i International Community Conference Room, 866 UN Plaza
Time: 13:15-14:30 EST | Register Here
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GISD Alliance Luncheon (by invitation only)
Organized by: UN Foundation | Location: Japan Society
Time: 13:15-15:00 EST | More Info
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Enhancing indigenous people’s traditional governance system for accessing to opportunities of Financing
Organized by: Asian Indigenous International Network, Foundation for Human Horizon | Location: CR-F
Time: 15:00-16:30 EST
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FfD4: Time for ambition for a UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt
Organized by: Civil Society FfD Mechanism | Location: CR-D
Time: 15:00-16:30 EST
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From St John's to Seville: Embedding a SIDS perspective in FFD4
Organized by: SIDS Unit, FSDO, AOSIS | Location: CR-9
Time: 15:00-16:30 EST
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Unlocking the Public Opportunity Cost to Financing Sustainable Development
Organized by: Basel Institute of Commons and Economics | Location: S-1520, Hybrid
Time: 16:30-18:00 EST
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30 OCTOBER
Strengthening the Capacity of experts from LDCs to engage in the intergovernmental negotiations on FfD4 (Day 2)
Organized by: FSDO and OHRLLS | Location: CR-11 (Closed)
Time: 10:00-18:00 EST
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Second Policy Symposium on Financial Integrity and Governance (Day 1) (By Invitation only)
Organized by: UNDP | More Info
Time: 12:30-17:00 EST
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31 OCTOBER
Second Policy Symposium on Financial Integrity and Governance (Day 2) (By invitation Only)
Organized by: UNDP | More Info
Time: 9:00-17:45 EST
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1st in-person meeting of the Commission of Experts on FfD (Day 1)
Organized by: FSDO | Location: DC2-2330 (Closed)
Time: 9:15-12:30 EST, 14:00-17:00 EST | Programme | More Info
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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sustainable Development Goals
Organized by: FSDO/DESA, The Harriet Tubman Institute, and The Monetary Policy Institute
Time: 10:00-18:00 EST | Register | Programme
Sessions:
CR-11
10:00–11:15: Remarks and keynote presentation
11:20–12:50: Session 1
CR-8
13:15-14:30: Presentation of “A World for Sale”, Jack Farchy, Bloomberg
CR-11
13:40-15:50: Session 2
16:15-18:00: Session 3
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Human Rights Council 2024 Social Forum
Organized by: United Nations Human Rights Council | Location: Room XX, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 10:00-18:00 CEST | More Info
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International Tax Cooperation and Human Rights: Pathways to Reducing Global Inequalities
Organized by: Permanent Mission of Honduras in Geneva | Location: Room XXIV, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 13:00-14:00 CEST
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Perspectives on international financial architecture reform: What do we want the FfD4 Conference to achieve?
Organized by: Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Global Policy Forum Europe (GPF), Public Services International (PSI) and the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) | Location: Room XXI, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 13:00-14:00 CEST
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What funding for what development?
Organized by: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Centre Europe-Tiers Monde (CETIM) | Location: Room XXIV, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 14:00-15:00 CEST
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1 NOVEMBER
1st in-person meeting of the Commission of Experts on FfD (Day 2)
Organized by: FSDO | Location: S-1523 (closed)
Time: 9:30-12:30 EST, 14:00-16:30 EST | Programme | More Info
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Human Rights Council 2024 Social Forum
Organized by: United Nations Human Rights Council | Location: Room XX, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 10:00-18:00 EST | More Info
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Fixing the International Financial Architecture for Realizing Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
Organized by: Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) | Location: Room XXIV, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 13:00-14:00 CEST
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Illicit Financial Flows from Africa and the Financing of Development
Organized by: University of the Free State, South Africa | Location: Room XXI, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Time: 14:00-15:00 CEST