The 2023 Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) High-level Meeting (HLM) will emphasize the human dimension of development cooperation, with a focus on the experiences of people that development cooperation policies and practices are meant to serve. It will provide a critical platform to shape high-impact development cooperation that responds to multiple crises while maintaining a laser focus on rescuing and realizing the SDGs in their totality. As such, it will put in place a firm foundation for collective policy actions in 2023 at the FFD Forum, High-level Political Forum, the SDG Summit and the High-level Dialogue on FFD. Specifically, the DCF will foster better understanding and concrete opportunities to:
• identify and assess growing, multi-faceted vulnerabilities amidst the evolving risk landscape;
• strengthen development cooperation in priority areas targeting multi-dimensional vulnerabilities, such as climate change adaptation, digital transformation and universal social protection;
• empower local governments and communities at the forefront of multiple crises to play a bigger role in development cooperation; and
• strategize on how development cooperation gains can be sustained in the long-term.