Day 1 #FfDForum

2024 United Nations #FfD Forum outlines path to #FfD 4 Conference:
Debt, taxes & geopolitics took centre stage at #FfD event (15-20 April, #NYC ), serious #debt problems of developing countries dominated debates.

There are signs of hope, but bumpy road ahead!
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Day II #FfDForum

#ffd Financing For Development Forum conference at the TB .

Opening session was all about redistribution of wealth.

Finance must get to developing countries more and private financing must foster civil societies more to actualize #SDG

Excited to start this year’s #FfDForum ! 🌏 We must take bold decisions to direct financing towards sustainability 🌱

🇸🇪 looks forward to meaningful discussions, especially on the path ahead towards a fourth international conference on Financing for Development in 2025 #FfD4

🚀''Let's weave a finely crafted global financial safety net that catches over 270 million people who are discriminated on work and descent''. Representing The Inclusivity Project, Eliana Vaz Martins intervenes in the United Nations #FfDForum 2024, Panel discussion 7 on Addressing Systemic Issues.

🇧🇪🇺🇳During the Financing for Development #FFDForum , Belgium emphasised the importance of: 🔹operational effectiveness, 🔹transformative actions,
🔹human development (health, education, social protection)
🔹inclusivity
towards #FFD4 Conference in Spain in 2025💪

We cordially invited Abena Osei-Asare, MP Minister of State for Finance Ministry of Finance, Ghana 🇬🇭 for #INFF Report launch @ #FFDForum . The Minister joined the discussion and shed light on #Ghana 's innovative approach to resource funding through #INFF .

More in the Report 👉bit.ly/INFFReport2024

International debt experts at the UN #FfDForum are clearly calling for debt legislation to be agreed in New York and the UK to compel private creditors to the table in debt relief negotiations - it's an essential ingredient in the recipe of debt justice!

#FfDForum unterstützt nachhaltige Lösung der #Schuldenkrise & Reformen der internationalen #Steuerpolitik !
Schuldenerlasse & progressive internat. Steuerpolitik = Grundvoraussetzung für erfolgreiche Umsetzung der #Agenda2030 & Pariser #Klimaziele
Zur PM:
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We are at a crossroads: the world must close a sustainable development financing gap of over $4 trillion annually.

➡️ Learn more about what needs to be done to close this gap at this year’s #FfDForum and why this is such a pivotal year: bit.ly/Fin4DevForum

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At #FfDForum we start the #debt panel (wait #Manel !!) with Pakistan stating how they did everything that they were supposed to do (fiscal consolidation, austerity, IMF program...) and still have a debt problem
Pakistan states the need for a new debt resteucturings framework

👂🏽Episode 2 of the “Struggle for Life, Women’s Human Rights and the Planet” podcast is now #live ! 🎧 #FfDForum Check out the full #podcast here: bit.ly/Ep2FDJPodcast_…
✊🏼Listen as Azra Sayeed, Roots for Equity shares the demands of women on addressing human-induced #climatecrisis .

#FfDForum Invest in inclusive digital public infrastructure to advance financial inclusion while protecting people from fraud, cyber attacks and illicit financial flows.

At the Special HLM of #FFDForum , Amb. Dai Bing called on the international community to address economic and development challenges in developing countries by:

🔸improving global economic governance and creating an enabling environment
🔸 mobilizing more development resources…

📢 #News Civil society rejects #EU and other #GlobalNorth countries breaking silence on paras 27, 66 & 73. We call on UN member states to uphold public transparency in UN negotiations! #FfDForum csoforffd.org/2024/04/22/civ…

U.S🇺🇸 position requesting a vote on the Final Document of the Financing for Development Forum #FfDForum and its abstention vote, supported only by Israel, is another clear example of its isolation and lack of commitment to the #AddisAbaba Action Agenda and #Agenda2030 .

2024 United Nations Financing for Development Forum outlines path to #FfD4 Conference
Excellent summary by Bodo Ellmers Global Policy Forum

Important as the IMF World Bank meetings did not achieve any joint agreed outcome

#FfDForum #Fin4Dev #GlobalGoals #SDGs

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Out Now ❗

Food and Agriculture Organization's Policy Brief on Repurposing domestic public support to agriculture.

We need to leverage domestic resources & effectively reallocate subsidies to address food crises & transform agrifood systems.

👉 Full brief: bit.ly/3UwORcx

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Following the Spring Meetings, 🇧🇪continued to push for progressive approach to discussions on reform of the international financial architecture during ECOSOC #FFDForum . We look forward to PrepComs in Addis, NY and Monterrey to continue our constructive engagement towards #FFD4

Food and Agriculture Organization Food and Agriculture Organization4Members Luxembourg at the UN🇱🇺🇺🇳 Malawi UnitedNations UN Women World Bank Anne Dostert 🇺🇦 UN ECOSOC President Food and Agriculture OrganizationSocioEcon Only a small percent of all domestic support to farmers is used for activities that help to achieve

✔ improved infrastructure for markets and market access
✔ land management
✔ carbon sequestration

This needs to change.

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