The Platform for Collaboration on Tax (PCT) has launched an Online Integrated Platform (OIP) that will offer easy access to information about tax-related projects PCT partners support in various countries.
The OIP is an information integration project and will be continuously fed with information about tax-related projects the different organizations are implementing.
The High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (FACTI) launched officially on 2 March 2020 at United Nations headquarters.
Speaking at the launch’s opening, President of the UN General Assembly Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande described the overarching goal of the Panel’s work: “Our aim is to contribute to efforts which will enable the global economic and financial systems to work better for everyone, everywhere,” he said.
In response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, the annual ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development originally scheduled for 20-23 April, will be held in a new format.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange and Investec co-hosted a meeting of the Strategy Group of the GISD Alliance in Johannesburg. Attendees discussed potential deliverables to be announced in the group's two-year term as well as potential areas for engagement with world leaders both inside and outside the United Nations system.
The GISD Alliance is made up of 30 CEOs, recognized leaders of major financial institutions and corporations spanning all the regions of the world.
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) conducted a workshop on municipal Asset Management Action Plans (AMAPs) in Gulu, Uganda from 3 to 6 December 2019, putting 22 local governments on the path to proactive asset management.
The President of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday encouraged Member States to support a new panel that has been set up to help make the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a reality, by 2030.
On Tuesday, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande and Mona Juul, the President of the UN Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC, introduced a joint initiative to establish a high-level panel on financial accountability, transparency and integrity, called FACTI.
The UN announced today that 30 influential leaders from the corporate world will work together over the next two years in a bid to free up trillions of dollars from the private sector to finance the Sustainable Development Goals.
Note by the Secretary-General:
Note by the Secretary-General on “Financing for Development: Progress and prospects” (E/FFDF/2017/2)
Press release (22 May 2017):
The first edition of the report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development maps out the commitments and action items contained in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and lays out how the Task Force will monitor their implementation in future years.