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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
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
FFD4 Multi-stakeholder round table 2: “Leveraging private business and finance”
Co-Chairs:
- H.E. Mr. Muhammad Aurangzeb, Federal Minister for Finance & Revenue, Pakistan
- H.E. Mr. Christopher MacLennan, Deputy Minister of International Development, Canada
Keynote:
- Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, African Union Commission Chairperson (tbc)
Moderator: Mr Antonio H. Pinheiro Silveira, Vice President for the Private Sector, CAF
Panelists:
- H.E. Mr. Neal Rijkenberg Minister of Finance, Kingdom of Eswatini
- H.E. Ms. Retselisitsoe Matlanyane, Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Lesotho
- H.E. Mr. Situmbeko Musokotwane, Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zambia
- Mr. Boris Titov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organizations for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, Russian Federation
Discussants:
- Ms. Mary Beth Goodman, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD
- Mr. Eric Pelofsky, Vice President, Rockefeller Foundation
Background
Private business activity, investment, and innovation are significant drivers of sustainable development in the past decades. However, private sector dynamism slowed after the 2008 world financial and economic crisis, in parallel with the broader macroeconomic slowdown, which also led to a widening Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) investment gap. Annual investment growth in developing countries halved from 8% to 4% between 2007 and 2020. Many countries and sectors that need it the most continue to receive insufficient investment, particularly Least Developed and other vulnerable countries. Despite increased attention to innovative finance instruments such as blended finance and the growing adoption of sustainable business and finance legislation, investment in sustainable development have fallen short of expectations.
The Sevilla outcome document outlines actions aimed at addressing key barriers to unlocking private business and finance at scale in support of sustainable development, including: i) strengthening domestic financial and capital markets in developing countries, building enabling environments for sustainable development, building capacities for diversification and industrialization, and enabling greater access to finance for women, marginalized groups, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises; ii) promoting foreign direct investment in sustainable development, and enhancing countries’ capacities to attract such investments, and scaling up and a new approach to blended finance, aimed at enhancing effectiveness and impact and scaling its use; and iii) setting financial incentives and regulation so that private investment and business activity are aligned with sustainable development, while supporting interoperability across jurisdictions.
Guiding Questions
- Which actions in the Sevilla Commitment are of highest priority so that private business and finance – at national and global level – can be unlocked at scale to support sustainable development, particularly in developing countries?
- What policy actions can strengthen enabling environments to unlock greater private investment in the SDGs and provide incentives to the private sector on sustainable development objectives?
- Which mechanisms can effectively crowd-in private resources for investment in sustainable development, reduce risks of investment in sectors and countries that need it the most and leverage limited public resources?
FFD4 Multi-stakeholder round table 3: “Revitalizing international development cooperation”
Opening remarks
- H.E. Mr. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, Spain
Co-chairs:
- H.E. Mr. KP Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal
- H.E. Ms. Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Vice Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Portugal
Special address by Head of State and Government:
- H.E. Mr. Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland
Keynote:
- H.E. Mr. Ho Duc Phoc, Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Moderator: Mr. Haoliang Xu, Acting Administrator, UNDP
Panelists:
- H.E. Mr. Jozef Síkela, Commissioner of International Partnership, European Commission
- H.E. Ms. Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Iceland
- H.E. Mr. Henry-Claude Oyima, Minister of State, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Debt, Gabon
- H.E. Mr. Maropene Ramokgopa, Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, South Africa
Discussants:
- Mr. Ilan Goldfajn, President, Inter-American Development Bank
- Mr. Liqun Jin, President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Background
International development cooperation represents a critical source of financing and support for sustainable development in many developing countries. However, rapidly rising demands coupled with recent shifts and reductions in ODA are putting scarce resources under increasing stress. Growing fragmentation is also increasing transaction costs and runs counter to long-standing effectiveness principles. There is an urgent need for the entire development cooperation ecosystem to work better as a system with a focus on poverty eradication and on catalysing other sources of finance, both public and private, for long term sustainable development outcomes in developing countries.
The Sevilla outcome document outlines actions aimed at enhancing the quantity and quality of all forms of development cooperation, including Official Development Assistance (ODA), South-South cooperation (SSC) and triangular cooperation, lending from Multilateral Development Banks (MDB), as well as climate finance. It lays out specific actions that all actors will take to enhance effectiveness and impact of development cooperation, as well as a vision for a revitalized international development cooperation architecture both nationally – based on country leadership, and globally – making the most of the central role of the United Nations in strengthening dialogue, knowledge sharing, coherence and accountability among all relevant actors.
Guiding Questions
- What development cooperation actions and commitments in the Sevilla outcome are of highest priority from your perspective, and how will you advance their implementation?
- What needs to change in the design and delivery of development cooperation policies and projects to more effectively respond to the needs and priorities of developing countries, and contribute to long-lasting impact?
- What kind of dialogue and accountability mechanisms are needed at the global level to advance the actions and commitments on development cooperation in the outcome document? How best should we foster such dialogue?
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
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