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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 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
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