Civil Society engages during Financing for Development Forum
The ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FfD Forum), meeting in New York from May 22 to 25, is dedicated to reviewing not only the fulfillment of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and its predecessors (the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and the 2008 Doha Declaration on Financing for Development), but also the means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and feeding its results into the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). Civil Society is engaging in the forum in several ways, with interventions, side-events and written comments.
For example, GPF and Social Watch are involved in two side-events (for more information, see here)
How a UN Intergovernmental Tax Body could tackle illicit financial flows and advance progressive and gender responsive tax systems
Monday, May 22, 2017 | 1:15 – 2:30 p.m. | Conference Room B
Organised by the CSO for FfD Group together with the Women’s Working Group on FfD
Financing social protection floors throughout economic cycles
Public-Private Interfaces
New models of interaction between the public and private actors, successes and challenges and their meaning for development finance and the eradication of poverty
Wednesday, 24 May 2017 | 8.00 ‑ 9.30 AM | Conference Room B
Organised by the CSO for FfD Group together with the Women’s Working Group on FfD and the NGO Committee on Financing for Development as well as the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development
For more on the substance of the Forum, see these blog entries on globalpolicywatch.org:
Financing for Development – stock-taking at the UN
Part 1: Preparing UN Forum on Financing for Development and the 2030 Agenda
The ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FfD Forum) is dedicated to reviewing not only the fulfillment of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and its predecessors (the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and the 2008 Doha Declaration on Financing for Development), but also the means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and feeding its results into the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
Part 2: The IATF report: basis for an outcome?
The central substantive piece during the preparations for the 2017 FfD Forum has been the work of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and its report “Progress and prospects”. However, during open briefings from the IATF on the report, Member States – mostly members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – expressed frustration, wanting to understand the division of responsibilities among Task Force members in report preparations.
Further inputs by CSOs, organized under the umbrella of the CSO Financing for Development Group, can be found here
https://csoforffd.org/
For comments on the zero draft of an outcome document, see here.
