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June 20, 2025

Side Events at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development

Join us for a critical series of side events organized by the Civil Society FfD Mechanism during the 4th Financing for Development Conference.

The Civil Society Financing for Development (FfD) Mechanism invites all accredited participants of the 4th Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) to join a vital series of civil society-led side events in Seville, Spain, from July 1–3, 2025. Taking place in Auditorium 3 at the FIBES Conference Center, these events will provide a platform for deep reflection and bold action.

As the world faces converging crises of inequality, ecological breakdown, and unjust global power structures, civil society actors from all regions will come together to challenge the status quo and demand real, systemic change.

“There is no more time for false solutions that tinker around the margins and maintain power imbalances untouched,” organizers stress. “Systemic transformations are needed, and UN member states — together with civil society — must seize the moment and finally choose to be bold.”

The side events will offer space for grassroots voices, frontline perspectives, and critical analysis of the FfD4 outcomes, with a focus on charting next steps for the future of the Financing for Development process and global economic governance struggles.

Full list of CS FfD Side Events here:

Tuesday July 1, 2025

8:30am - 10:00am: Walking the talk on Domestic Public Resources: From FfD4 to the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation
10:30am - 12:00pm: Time for a real reform of the Debt Architecture: the case for the UN Debt Framework Convention and an Intergovernmental Process on Sovereign Debt
12:30pm - 2:00pm: Towards restoring trust in the International Development Cooperation in an increasingly multipolar world
2:30pm - 4:00pm: The Long Overdue Reform of Credit Rating Agencies: Challenges, accountability and the creation of new agencies

Wednesday July 2, 2025

8:30am - 10:00am: Financing Africa’s Development: The Role of Reforming the Global Financial Architecture
10:30am - 12:00pm: Filling the Private Finance Regulatory Gap: Moving Beyond the Derisking State
12:30pm - 2:00pm: Trade, Development, and Climate Justice in Times of Turbulent Multilateral Relations: Beyond Sevilla
2:30pm - 4:00pm: Ecological and Climate Integrity in FfD4

Thursday July 3, 2025

8:30am - 10:00am: Our Future is At Stake: Civil Society Reflects on Present and Future of FfD
10:30am - 12:00pm: Envisioning a Feminist Transformation of the International Financial Architecture for Women in the Global South

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