Research paper
What Next for Financing Social Protection and Health Services?
The United Nations General Assembly agreed to convene a fourth international conference on financing for development (FfD4) in Spain in 2025. The starting point in the preparations for FfD4 is the political commitments in two important international documents, beginning with the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA), the agreed outcome document of FfD3 in 2015. That wide-ranging Agenda focused in its paragraph 12 on improving delivery of “social protection and essential public services for all,” with a strong commitment to universal access to quality social benefits and services.