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Programme de la FFD4
Programme officiel
Programme for 30th juin, 2025
FFD4 Second Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Opening Segment and First Plenary Meeting
- Opening of the Conference
- Election of the President
- Opening statements by:
- Pedro Sánchez, President of the Conference and the Government of Spain
- António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Philemon Yang, President of the United Nations General Assembly
- Bob Rae, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
- Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group
- Nigel Clarke, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization
- Li Junhua, Secretary-General of the Conference
- Adoption of the rules of procedure
- Adoption of the agenda
- Election of officers other than the President
- Organization of work and other organizational matters
- Credentials of representatives to the Conference: appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee
- Adoption of the Outcome Document (TBC)
- General debate. Click here for the live list of speakers >>
- Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Multi-stakeholder round table 1: “Mobilizing and aligning domestic public resources”
Co-Chairs:
• H.E. Mr. Alar Karis, President of the Republic of Estonia
• H.E. Mr. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
Special address by Head of State and Government:
• H.E. Daniel Noboa Azin, President of Republic of Ecuador
Keynote:
• H.E. Mr. Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Moderator:
• Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General, ILO
Panelists:
• H.E. Mr. José Manuel Albares Bueno, Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain
• H.E. Ms. Reem Alabali Radovan, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
• H.E. Mr. Cheikh Diba, Minister of Finance and Budget, Senegal
• Mr. Nigel Clarke, Deputy Managing Director, IMF
Discussants:
• Ms. Nadia Calvino, President, European Investment Bank
• Mr. Yingming Yang, Vice President, Asian Development Bank
Background
Domestic public resources are a cornerstone of sustainable development, providing fiscal space for government spending and investment, and generating incentives that shape economic and societal outcomes. Many developing countries still face significant obstacles in mobilizing domestic revenues and effectively utilizing their fiscal systems. These challenges stem from both domestic and international factors. Domestically, insufficient transparency and accountability in fiscal systems, weak alignment of fiscal policies with sustainable development, limited institutional capacity and the underutilization of public institutions (such as development finance institutions) can hamper resource mobilization and effective use. In a globalized and digitalized economy, international tax cooperation is critical to combat tax evasion and avoidance. Yet, international tax cooperation is neither fully inclusive nor effective. And persistent challenges hinder effective combatting of illicit financial flows.
The Sevilla outcome document addresses these challenges with concrete actions in four areas: i) ensuring that countries have the necessary resources, and that resources are collected efficiently and spent transparently in alignment with sustainable development; ii) strengthening international tax cooperation to ensure that international tax rules respond to the diverse needs, priorities, and capacities of all countries, especially developing countries; iii) effectively combating illicit financial flows; and iv) fully leveraging the potential of national public development banks.
Guiding Questions
1. Which actions and commitments related to domestic public resources in the Sevilla outcome do you consider most urgent, and how do you plan to support their implementation?
2. What changes are needed to strengthen fiscal transparency, align tax and spending policies with sustainable development, enhance institutional capacity and fully leveraging national public development banks in developing countries?
3. What changes are needed to strengthen international tax cooperation and effectively combat illicit financial flows?
Programme for 1st juillet, 2025
FFD4 Third Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Fourth Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
Programme for 2nd juillet, 2025
FFD4 Fifth Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Sixth Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Multi-stakeholder round table 4: “Upholding the multilateral trading system, and harnessing the potential of science, technology and innovation”
Co-Chairs:
- H.E. Ms. Nadia Fettah, Minister of Economy and Finance, Morocco
- H.E. Ms. Melita Gabrič, Deputy Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Minister for Development, Slovenia
Special address by Head of State and Government:
- H.E. Mr. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, Spain
Moderator: Mr. Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director, UNOPS
Panelists:
- H.E. Mr. Shane Reti, Minister for Science and Innovation, Minister for Pacific Peoples, Minister for Statistics and Universities, New Zealand
- H.E. Mr. Karamoko Jean-Marie Traore, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and Burkinabè Abroad, Burkina Faso
- H.E. Mr. Philip Gough, Secretary of Economic and Financial Affairs, Brazil
- H.E. Mr. Amb. Enrique Javier Ochoa Martinez, Under Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Discussants:
- Customs Cooperation Council
- CSO representative
Background
International trade is an engine for inclusive growth and poverty eradication and contributes to the promotion of sustainable development. Yet, the multilateral trading system is increasingly under threat. Trade restrictions, including tariffs inconsistent with WTO rules, principles and commitments, are on the rise globally amidst rising trade tensions and stalling multilateral negotiations. At the same time many developing countries with limited productive capacities and trade infrastructure continue to experience challenges in integrating into regional and global value chains and generating higher-value addition in commodities and critical minerals.
Over the last decades, the world has seen unprecedented progress in science, technology and innovation (STI). While technology holds promises in advancing sustainable development and resilience, enhancing productivity, creating new industries and business models and contributing to poverty eradication, it can also have unintended economic, environmental and social impacts. Moreover, developing countries’ ability to leverage its full potential remains constrained. Deepening gaps in innovation and access to technology and inadequate access to digital infrastructure, data and digital public goods have resulted in persistent digital divides between and within countries.
The Compromiso de Sevilla outlines commitments to uphold the multilateral trading system and harnessing the potential of STI. On international trade, it reaffirms the principles of the multilateral trading system and lays out specific actions to improve capacities to trade and increase local value addition for commodities and critical minerals, with a focus on the furthest behind. The Sevilla outcome also puts forward measures at the national and international levels to close digital divides and leverage scientific and technological advances.
Guiding Questions
- What actions and commitments related to trade and STI in the Sevilla outcome are of highest priority from your perspective, and how will you advance their implementation?
- How do you plan to build on the outcome document in Sevilla to support developing countries’ integration in regional and global value chains and local value addition of critical minerals and commodities?
- How can commitments in the Sevilla outcome document help closing digital divides within and between countries?
Programme for 3rd juillet, 2025
FFD4 Seventh Plenary Meeting
- General debate: Statements by Heads of State or Government, ministers and heads of delegation
FFD4 Eighth Plenary Meeting and Closing of the Conference
- General debate
- Credentials of representatives to the Conference: report of the Credentials Committee
- Multi-stakeholder round tables: reports by the Co-Chairs Adoption of the outcome document of the Conference
- Adoption of the report of the Conference
- Closure of the Conference