LocationsThe FfD Forum is an important opportunity to promote convergence around a common sustainable finance agenda and to strengthen the partnerships needed to achieve UNDP’s $1 trillion moonshot.
2023 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development – UNDP Side Events
April 13, 2023
Event Details
17 - 20 April 2023
Online
Join UNDP at the 2023 Financing for Development Forum
The 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development forum (FfD) is just around the corner. The UN Member States will gather in New York from 17-20 April to discuss the most pressing issues facing financing for development.
Against the backdrop of a deeply disconcerting global economic outlook, insufficient financing remains one of the greatest bottlenecks to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Trillions of dollars are needed annually to bridge the SDGs financing gap in developing countries.
The FfD Forum is an important opportunity to promote convergence around a common sustainable finance agenda and to strengthen the partnerships needed to achieve UNDP’s $1 trillion moonshot.
UNDP is participating in several events over the course of the Forum to raise awareness, share lessons and best practices from our support to countries in implementing sustainable finance solutions. You can join either in person or virtually.
Additional materials:
- The 2023 Financing for Sustainable Development Report and key messages here.
- Download the full FfD Forum programme and side events
Zero draft of the FfD Ministerial Meeting outcome document.
| Events | When | How to Join | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Side event: Can integrated national financing frameworks boost equitable domestic revenue mobilisation and advance the Sustainable Development Goals? | Date: 17 April 2023 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 AM EST | Location: Hybrid EU Delegation to the UN, 666 Third Avenue, New York Registration link: http://bit.ly/43lZMIt | The Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) side event, organised in collaboration with the European Union and Germany as ATI development partners, will discuss how integrated national financing frameworks (INFFs) could contribute to boosting equitable domestic revenue mobilisation (DRM) and advance the SDGs. Accordingly, the event will convene high-level representatives, implementing governments and partners, and international think-tanks to discuss the role of INFFs in mobilising DRM while achieving the goal of reducing inequality and other SDGs. With over 80 countries working to develop INFF strategy globally, the event will host the experience of selected INFF implementing ATI partner countries from Africa and Asia. More info: http://bit.ly/3mkpOeC |
| Forum session: Remaking the international financial architecture to achieve the SDGs | Date: 17 April 2023 Time: 11:45 - 13:00 | Livestream link: https://media.un.org/en/webtv | This session will unpack the steps needed to remake international systems, institutions and norms for finance to achieve the Goals by 2030, including in support of an SDG Stimulus: 1) tackling the high cost of debt financing and rising risks of debt distress; 2) massively scaling up affordable long-term financing for development; 3) expanding contingency financing to countries in need; and 4) advancing towards an international financial architecture that is more coherent and better aligned with the needs of the 21st century. |
| Side event: SDG sovereign bonds as an instrument to advance alignment and financing for the SDGs. Countries and investors in joint action. | Date: 18 April 2023 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 | Location: Hybrid Conference Room 6, UN Headquarters Registration: https://bit.ly/SDGBonds-INFF-registration | Sweden, through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the Government of Rwanda are hosting an official side event of the 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum to discuss the experiences and needs of countries exploring and developing SDG sovereign bonds through their integrated national financing frameworks (INFFs). The event is supported by UNDP, UNDESA and the INFF Facility. |
| Side event: Policy and financing dialogue: Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. | Date: 18 April 2023 Time: 8:00 - 9:45 | Location: Hybrid West Terrace of the UN Delegate’s Dining Room Registration: http://bit.ly/41elDjL | ILO, UNDP, UNICEF and WFP will convene a ministerial roundtable with Pathfinder countries and development partners to focus on the Implementation Strategy of the Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for Just Transitions. The roundtable will provide the opportunity to express commitments to develop national implementation roadmaps, and to support country implementation through technical and financial means. |
| Side event: Breaking Boundaries: Unleashing Green Investment Horizons in Africa & Developing Countries | Date: 18 April 2023 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 | Location: Virtual Registration: http://bit.ly/3KVshWm | Hosted by the Egyptian Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, UNDP, and UNEP, the side event aims to stimulate constructive dialogue among member states and multi-stakeholders in order to share challenges, experiences, best practices, and aspirations in terms of greening national investment plans and how the relevant regional and international organizations and financial institutions could effectively support countries in promoting the efforts of greening national investment plans. |
| Side event: A New Way of Monitoring Development Cooperation: Towards Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue and Action | Date: 19 April 2023 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 | Location: Hybrid Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters Registration: http://bit.ly/GPEDCatFfD2023 | Hosted by Indonesia, Republic of Korea and Sweden, this Global Partnership side event will put a spotlight on the new way of monitoring the effectiveness of development as a vehicle to promote collective accountability and drive multi-stakeholder dialogue, behavior change and action - ultimately contributing to improved development impact amidst today's challenges. |
| Side event: Examining the theory and practice of INFFs | Date: 19 April 2023 Time: 13:30 - 14:30
| Location: Hybrid Conference Room 6, UN Headquarters Livestream link: https://media.un.org/en/webtv
| The CSO FfD Mechanism is conducting a number of country case studies to buttress CSO perspectives and positions on integrated national financing frameworks (INFFs) with evidence from the ground. These country case studies are underway in Nigeria, Indonesia, Bolivia, Solomon Islands and Sierra Leone with preliminary findings from the country case studies available in time for the 2023 Financing for Development Review Forum. The CSO FfD Mechanism is hosting a CSO led side event to have an early stock take and reflection with official partners and country delegates on the value/relevance/prospects of INFF for development finance in the future. |
| Side event: SDGs and Taxation: Lessons Learned and Best Practices from the Ground | Date: 19 April 2023 Time: 13:30 - 14:30
| Location: Hybrid Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters Registration: https://forms.gle/VfKmYnHubwpu1b6r9 | There is an urgent need to share experiences from the ground and intensify efforts towards policy solutions that steer tax systems towards accelerating progress towards the 2030 Agenda. Co-organized by UNDP and the Governments of Finland and Norway, this event will bring insights from governments, international organizations, academia and civil society with the objective of discussing how tax can act as a catalyst for Sustainable Development on the road to 2030. At the event, the 2022 Annual Report of the Tax for SDGs Initiative will also be launched. |
SDG Investment Fair event: Advancing Pakistan’s climate resilience by catalyzing innovative SDG financing
| Date: 19 April 2023 Time: 17:30 - 19:00
| Location: In-person S-1522/1523, UN Headquarters Registration: RVSP with rabayl.mirza@un.org
| UNDESA, in partnership with UNDP, is convening investors, development finance partners, and the wider business community to present investment opportunities that can contribute to sustainable development and climate resiliency in Pakistan. The event will aim to spur concrete actions and partnerships that can drive resilient recovery in Pakistan and advance progress towards the SDGs. |
| Side event: Making budgets credible: Country lessons and approaches | Date: 20 April 2023 Time: 8:00 - 9:30
| Location: Hybrid Conference Room 11, UN Headquarters Registration: https://internationalbudget.org/events/making-budgets-credible/
| Hosted by UNICEF and the International Budget Partnership, this hybrid event will share insights from governments, development partners and civil society actors that are taking practical steps to enhance the credibility of government budgets and ensure that available resources achieve their intended targets. The main objective of the event is to encourage engagement at global and national levels in the practical interventions that can address budget credibility challenges to achieving SDG progress and outcomes. |
Forum session: Integrated national financing frameworks - national actions to raising financing for the SDGs
| Date: 20 April 2023 Time: 11:30 - 13:00
| Livestream link: https://media.un.org/en/webtv
| Building on the growing momentum for the demand and support for Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs) implementation, this session will provide: 1) a forum to share experiences and lessons learned by countries that are developing INFFs and to report back to ECOSOC on INFF progress as part of their follow-up to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and 2) for the international community to explore how to make use of INFFs to align its support with national priorities and plans. |
