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About FFD4

The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) is set to take place from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Sevilla, Spain. The Conference will be held in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre. 

FFD4 aspires to build a renewed global financing framework that will unlock greater volumes of capital at a lower cost. In Sevilla, and through a renewed global financing framework, leaders are taking action to deliver an SDG investment push and to reform the international financial architecture to enable the transformative change that the world urgently needs.
 


UN Secretary-General’s Message for the First Preparatory Committee Session for FFD4


Spain Prime Minister Announces Location of FFD4 Conference

Preparatory Process for FFD4 

Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee  

General Assembly resolution 78/231 established an intergovernmental Preparatory Committee to make the organizational, procedural and substantive preparations for the Conference, with a Bureau consisting of three members from each regional group.   

The Committee adopted the annotated provisional agenda of its work and a draft decision on further modalities of the Conference during the organizational session.   

Subsequent sessions of the Preparatory Committee will be held as follows:  

  • First session: Addis Ababa from 22 to 26 July 2024 

  • Second session: New York from 3-6 December 2024 

  • Third session: New York from 10-14 February 2025 

  • Fourth session: New York from 30 April - 1 May 2025 

A one-day intersessional Multistakeholder Hearing was convened in New York on 28 October 2024, as part of the preparatory process for the Conference.  

The Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee is Co-Chaired by the following Permanent Representatives of the Committee: 

  • H.E. Mr. Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Permanent Representative of Burundi to the UN and  H.E. Mr. Rui Vinhas, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN  

  • African States: South Africa and Zambia. 

  • Asia-Pacific States: China, Islamic Republic of Iran, Nepal and Pakistan serve as a Vice-Chairs on a rotational basis.   

  • Eastern European States: Poland and the Russian Federation. 

  • Latin American and Caribbean States: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico 

  • Western European and other States: Canada and Norway.  

At its first session, the Preparatory Committee elected H.E. Mr. Rui Vinhas, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN, as Co-Chair of the Committee  

On 19 June 2024, the Co-Chairs of the FfD4 Preparatory Committee announced that Mexico, Nepal, Norway and Zambia would co-facilitate the negotiations of the FfD4 outcome document.