Through collective efforts to mobilize financing for sustainable development and realize an international financial architecture that serves the needs of all countries, the world can tackle poverty, inequality, hunger, education, the climate crisis, and all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Investing in sustainable development is not a sectoral endeavor; an investment in one area creates ripple effects throughout the entire economy, creating positive impacts at all levels
Backgrounder | Financing for #OurCommonFuture
Building on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the commitments made in the Pact for the Future, adopted in 2015 and 2024 respectively, discussions will focus on two overarching goals aimed at charting a path towards a more sustainable future: delivering a large-scale impact-focused investment push, and reforming the international financial architecture.
Financing a Sustainable Future | Report of the International Commission Of Experts For The Fourth Conference On Financing for Development (FFD4)
Tax Cooperation and Combatting Illicit Capital Flows: the Commission proposes increasing the agreed global minimum tax rate from 15% to 25%, banning tax incentives for natural resource exploitation, and ensuring adequate taxation of very rich individuals, including through a minimum tax on the very wealthy. To combat illicit financial flows, the Commission proposes mandatory country-by-country reporting by MNEs, a publicly accessible global registry of beneficial ownership, and a UN protocol on illicit flows.
FFD4 Business Steering Committee Communiqué | Unlocking Private Finance And Investment For Sustainable Development
Our overarching objective is to scale up private investment for sustainable development in developing countries. To achieve this, we have identified five action areas critical to unlocking private capital at scale and channeling it toward SDG-aligned sectors, projects and initiatives where it is needed most. To be effective, these action areas will need to be complemented by broader efforts to set in place an enabling business environment, including an effective legal and regulatory framework and a favorable macroeconomic and trade setting.
Declaration From The Fourth International Conference On Finance For Development Civil Society Forum
The FfD4 is taking place at a time when the world is reeling with multiple crises: growing inequalities within and between countries, unsustainable debt burdens faced by Global South countries undermining the realization of human rights and the provision of public services, structural gender inequalities, decent work deficit, continued corporate tax avoidance and evasion and illicit financial flows, rise in conflicts and militarism, cuts in official development assistance (ODA) and failure to uphold longstanding commitments, shrinking civic space, the worsening triple planetary crisis, widespread hunger and malnutrition, growing fractures in the multilateral trade system, and rapidly declining international cooperation.
3 rd EU-AU Ministerial Meeting, 21 May 2025 Joint communique
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Member States of the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) concluded their 3rd Ministerial Meeting, taking stock of progress on the Joint Vision for 2030 for a renewed Partnership, adopted at the 6th EU-AU Summit in 2022. This Ministerial paves the way for the 7th AU-EU Summit, which will take place in Africa, in 2025, marking 25 years of the partnership since the Cairo Summit in 2000.
Civil Society Declaration Finance In Common Summit (FiCS) | Fostering Infrastructure And Finance For Just and Sustainable Growth
The confluence of rising inequality, debt crises, and the escalating climate emergency demands that Public Development Banks (PDBs) demonstrate genuine leadership in driving just, sustainable development. At this critical juncture, PDBs must move beyond rhetoric and commit to concrete, transformative actions, placing human rights, community leadership, and environmental sustainability at the core of all financing decisions. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) call on PDBs to embrace this responsibility and champion a new era of development finance.
Introduction to the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo
The 4th CAETE is scheduled to be held in Changsha, Hunan in June 2025, with over 10,000 participants expected. The event will uphold the guiding principles outlined in President Xi Jinping’s significant remarks on China-Africa cooperation and his congratulatory letter to the 1st CAETE. To implement the “Ten Partnership Actions”, a variety of activities will be organized to bring together governments, local authorities, think tanks, enterprises, and financial institutions from both China and Africa and other parties to deliberate cooperation endeavors. It is expected to make solid progress in fostering high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era.
African Group Inputs for Financing for Development (FfD4) | Global Financing Framework
The African Group reaffirms the centrality of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) as a guiding framework for financing sustainable development. However, the existing international financial architecture does not meet the financial needs of African countries, particularly in times of crises. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global financing system must address systemic challenges such as high debt burdens, trade barriers and financial market volatility.
Worrying Patterns of Abductions And Enforced Disappearances in Kenya
There have been thirteen (13) more cases of abductions or enforced disappearances in the last three (3) months bringing to eight-two (82) the total cases since June 2024. Seven (7) of the recent abduction cases were reported in the month of December 2024 with six (6) of them still missing, bringing to twenty-nine (29) the total number of persons still missing since June 2024.