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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?
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 5: “Realizing a development-oriented sovereign debt architecture”
Co-Chairs:
- H.E. Mr. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government, Spain
- H.E. Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, President of Senegal
Special address by Head of State and Government:
- H.E. Mr. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister, Antigua and Barbuda
Keynote:
- Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Laureate
Moderator:
- Mr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Panelists:
- H.E. Mr. Louis Paul Motaze, Minister of Finance, Cameroon
- H.E. Mrs. Mickket Slama Khaldi, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Tunisia
- H.E Ahmed Shide, Minister of Finance, Ethiopia (tbc)
- Mr. Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, World Bank Group
Discussants:
- Mr. Rémy Rioux, AFD CEO and chairman of the Finance in Common Coalition
- Mr. Jay Collins, Vice Chairman, Citigroup
Background
Amid successive crises and shocks, sovereign debt challenges have become one of the greatest obstacles to realizing sustainable development. Many developing countries face high debt service burdens and borrowing costs, which severely constrain their fiscal space and ability to address poverty and inequality and invest in sustainable development. Despite progress in reforming the sovereign debt architecture, restructurings are often still inadequate, late and lengthy. A development-oriented debt architecture, based on sound and transparent analysis of sovereign debt sustainability, is urgently needed to address these debt challenges.
The debt chapter of the Sevilla outcome document outlines four areas of actions to address these challenges: i) actions to strengthen debt management and crises prevention, debt transparency, and responsible borrowing and lending; ii) actions to lower borrowing costs and enhance fiscal space for investment in sustainable development in developing countries; iii) actions to achieve efficient, fair, predictable, coordinated, timely, and orderly restructurings; and iv) actions to promote debt sustainability and credit assessments that are more accurate, objective and long-term oriented.
Guiding Questions
1. What are your plans for taking forward the actions in the Sevilla outcome to achieve a development-oriented sovereign debt architecture?
2. How do you intend to progress in improving debt restructuring processes and outcomes in the near and long term for countries with unsustainable debt burdens?
3. How will you work towards advancing the Sevilla outcome to prevent future debt crises and provide urgent, timely and effective support to countries when they are faced with liquidity pressures?
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