Building on 2025 DCF outcomes
The 2025 Development Cooperation Forum addressed critical challenges facing the international development system: with nearly 600 million people projected to face extreme poverty by 2030 and developing countries confronting annual SDG financing gaps of up to $4 trillion, the current cooperation system is faltering precisely when needs are greatest and priorities urgent.
The landscape of international development cooperation has transformed dramatically since 2015, becoming more complex with new actors, modalities and instruments. While this diversity brings opportunities, it has also increased coordination burdens and transaction costs for developing countries. The growing focus on global public goods and humanitarian emergencies, while crucial, has reduced support for countries’ long-term sustainable development priorities, including those of the most vulnerable.
Making development cooperation fit for purpose through fundamental reforms to ensure true country leadership and policy coherence is not just a technical challenge – it is imperative to ensure limited resources reach those most in need and drive real sustainable development impact.
Essential Reading
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Read DCF Survey Study - Launch Statement by ASG Hanif
DCF Mandates
We will foster synergies across existing platforms and forums, including through a revitalized Development Cooperation Forum that deepens exchanges among and between all relevant actors to promote global knowledge sharing and learning; enhance coherence, effectiveness, accountability and impact of development cooperation; and give policy guidance and recommendations, including by drawing on country reporting of data on SDG 17.3.1 as agreed by the United Nations Statistical Commission.
Through the revitalized DCF, we:
i. Will take into account the work of other relevant platforms, such as the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation mechanism and its forums, in supporting global knowledge sharing and learning in a complementary manner.
ii. Look forward to the review process of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and invite them to provide updates and receive feedback on their review process to Member States.
iii. Take note of the work of the International Forum on Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) on cross-border flows and we reaffirm that any such measure will not dilute commitments already made.
iv. Also take note of the work of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) in fostering transparency of development cooperation.
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