The UN’s Financing for Development Forum 2023 took place from 17th April 2023 to 20th April 2023 in the Trusteeship Council, at UN Headquarters, New York.  The 2023 FfD Forum provided a platform for inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the current global challenges and advance policies for financing long-term sustainable development priorities, in line with its mandate laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.  

Read our letter to ECOSOC President and FfD Forum Co-Facilitators

CS FfD Mechanism’s Response to Zero Draft 2023 FfD Outcome Document – 22 March 2023

CS FfD Mechanism’s Response to First Draft 2023 FfD Outcome Document – 31 March 2023

CS FfD Mechanism’s statements as lead discussants and interventions from the floor during the FfD Forum 2023.

CS FfD Mechanism’s Newsletter series: “The FfD Chronicle”

Civil Society FfD Group’s Statements at the FfD Forum 2023

17 April 2023

Panel I: Coping with cascading crises and investing in sustainable development: How to make the right policy choices?

Inputs by lead discussant: Delivered by Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network on behalf of the Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism (including Women’s Working Group on FfD)

Panel II: Remaking the international financial architecture to achieve the SDGs

Inputs by lead discussant: Delivered by Mae Buenaventura on behalf of Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Statement: Delivered by Bodo Ellmers on behalf of Global Policy Forum and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Statement: Delivered by Iolanda Fresnillo on behalf of Eurodad and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

18 April 2023

Panel: Special High-level Meeting with Bretton Woods Institutions, WTO and UNCTAD

Inputs by lead discussant: Delivered by Iolanda Fresnillo on behalf of Eurodad and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Panel IV: Fostering debt sustainability by addressing gaps in the sovereign debt architecture

Inputs by lead discussant: Delivered by Jason Braganza on behalf of Afrodad and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Panel V: Panel Discussion 5: Private Investment for Development Countries

Inputs by lead discussant: Delivered by Flora Sonkin on behalf of Society for International Development and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

19 April 2023

Panel VI: Financing sustainable industrial transformations

Statement: Delivered by Ranja Sengupta on behalf of Third World Network and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Panel VII: Climate financing for adaptation and the SDGs

Inputs by lead discussant: Delivered by Carola Mejia on behalf of Latindadd and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Statement: Delivered by Emilia Reyes on behalf of Equidad de Genero and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Statement: Delivered by Bonnie Berry on behalf of Save the Children and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Panel VIII: Advancing international tax cooperation and tackling illicit financial flows to safeguard and mobilize domestic resources

Inputs by lead discussant: Delivered by Chenai Mukumba of Tax Justice Network Africa and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

Statement: Delivered by Jeannie Manipon on behalf of APMDD and Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) 

20 April 2023

Panel: The 2030 Agenda Requires Critical Reforms in the International Financial
Architecture

Statement: Delivered by Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network on behalf of the Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism (including Women’s Working Group on FfD)

Panel X: Integrating National Financing Frameworks – national actions to raise financing for the SDGs

Statement: Delivered by Fuimaono Ofoia, Samoa Umbrella for Non-Governmental Organisation and Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations on behalf of Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD)

Statement: Delivered by Rita Triharyani, Pusat Rehabilitasi YAKKUM on behalf of Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD)

Statement: Delivered by Leo Atakpu, African Network for Environmental & Economic Justice on behalf of Civil Society FfD Mechanism (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD)