Representatives from companies with a history of mismanagement of public contracts and renowned tax-dodging practices will meet in Geneva this week to lobby for business-friendly UN standards on Public- Private Partnerships. The UN Economic Commission for Europe is currently meeting to establish International Standards on PPPs. PPPs, which rarely fail to deliver in the public interest, are essentially…
Download as PDF: CS FfD Group Statement to HLM on Financing 2030 Agenda – 24 September 2018 Download annex as PDF: Annex – CS FfD Group Statement to FfD Forum 2018 We, participating organizations, networks and movements of the Civil Society FfD Group, welcome the initiative of the UN Secretary General to raise high level…
Download PDF version: Joint CSO submission to UNCTAD FfD IGE How can current debt vulnerabilities in developing countries be mitigated and developing country sovereign debt and financial crises be prevented? Debt financing has been used too often in recent years, both by sovereigns and by private sector actors. In consequence, debt levels have surged to…
#TenYearsOn #ChangeFinance One decade ago, on 15th September 2008, the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, marking the start of the financial crisis. Banks crashed and got bailed out with billions of taxpayer’s money. Today, 10 years after the financial crisis, the financial system remains strongly unregulated and dangerous to people, market, and society. The…
Statement delivered by Katie Tobin, Advocacy Coordinator, WaterAid on behalf of the NGO Major Group at the ECOSOC high-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions, 19 July 2018 WaterAid is an ECOSOC accredited NGO and we are also active with the NGO Major Group and the Major Groups and other Stakeholders constituency that…
Conversation with authors of the Civil Society Report: Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018 | 12 July 2018, H 6:15 PM, Church Center, 10th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York The world is off-track in terms of achieving sustainable development. Fundamental policy changes are necessary to unleash the transformative potential of the SDGs. In particular, there is…
HLPF 2018 Side Event – Wednesday, July 11, 2018 H 18:30-20:00 – UNHQ Conference Room 4 The combine MoI and FfD agendas should tackle the removal of many of the structural barriers to the socio-economic transformation and advance systemic reforms of global economic frameworks to realign them with the imperatives of human rights, gender justice,…
The 2018 High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held at UNHQ in New York from 9 to 18 July 2018 under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. The theme for the session will be Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies. More information, including the draft programme, is available at: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2018 Stakeholder engagement within…
This document has been collectively developed by the Civil Society Financing for Development (FfD) Group, a very broad platform of civil society organizations, networks and federations from around the world, including the Women’s Working Group on FfD. The Group followed closely the FfD process since its origins, facilitated civil society’s contribution to the Third International…
United Nations, New York City – Members and experts from the Civil Society Financing for Development Group release statements at the conclusion of the 2018 Financing for Development Forum. Commenting on forum discussions around debt relief processes for Caribbean and small islands, Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA, said: “During the Financing for Development Forum we saw growing…
April 26, 2018–1:15pm | Conference Room A | UNHQ, New York Dowload flyer The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) has defined the follow-up process for the Financing for Development process as well as the means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This includes assessing progress, obstacles, challenges as well as new and…
Time: 8 – 9.30 am, Place: CR-7, UNHQ, New York, Date: April 25, 2018 Download Flyer Organised by the CS FfD Group (including the Women’s WG on FfD); Facilitating organizations: SID, TWN and OWINFS The recent years have seen some major game changers in international trade policymaking. While for some time trade policy-making has become…
