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GGIN’s Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) Spotlight
GGIN’s FFD4 Spotlight
Contributed by Global Governance Innovation Network
Posted 16 June 2025
The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, from 30 June - 3 July in Sevilla, will provide an opportunity to reform financing at all levels, including supporting reform of the international financial architecture and addressing financing challenges preventing the urgently needed investment push for the SDGs. GGIN partners will be hosting official side events and contributing to the dialogue. Watch this space for updates on events we're hosting and others that we're watching!
MULTILATERALISM IN FLUX: What does FfD4 Reveal About the State of Global Cooperation – and How Can We Harness this Moment for Change?
Official Side event
📆 June 30, 2025, 05:00-06:00 PM| FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre, Side Event Room 11
📲 Event Details
Organizers: Project Starling, Devex
Moderated by Raj Kumar, Devex President and Editor in Chief, Amb Chola Milambo and Amb Alicia Buenrostro, who led FfD negotiations; Brian Kagoro, Managing Director at OSF, and Minh-Thu Pham of Project Starling, this event brings together key architects and observers of FfD to examine: What negotiating dynamics reveal about current geopolitical realities; The evolving contest between traditional and emerging centers of financial power; Pathways toward more effective multilateral support for development finance.
Leaving No One Behind: The Evolving Role of Philanthropy in Financing Sustainable Development
Official Side event
📆 June 30, 2025, 04:30-06:00 PM| Melia Sevilla, Calle Dr. Pedro de Castro, 1, 41004 Sevilla, Spain
📲 Event Details
Organizers: Collaborative for a Gender-Just Economy, Global Policy Forum, Trust Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative
This official side event of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development will bring together civil society leaders, philanthropic foundations, and multilateral actors to explore how we can unlock political will and funding for meaningful, rights-based transformation.
Brazil-Europe Dialogue on International Tax Cooperation and Solidarity for Climate Action and Sustainable Development
Official Side event
📆 July 1, 2025, 10:30 am-12:00 pm | FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre, Side Event Room 11
📲 Event Details
Organizers: Ministry of Finance of Brazil, Plataforma CIPÓ, European Climate Foundation (ECF), and Delegation of the European Union to Brazil
Objective and Format: This dialogue aims to strengthen cooperation between Brazil and European partners on fair and effective tax systems, with a particular focus on financing climate action and sustainable development. The event will feature high-level opening remarks and expert presentations, followed by an interactive stakeholder dialogue. Participants will include high-level representatives from the Brazilian government—specifically the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—as well as from EU institutions and member states, the United Nations, OECD, civil society organizations, think-tanks and academia.
Financing an equitable, fair, inclusive, and resilient future
Official Side event
📆 July 2, 2025, 08:30 am-10:00 am | FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre, Side Event Room 17
📲 Event Details
Organizers: Club de Madrid, Plataforma CIPÓ, Impact Coalition IFA Reform, C4UN, IE University, Climate Emergency Collaboration Group, Climate Bonds Initiative, The Development Guarantee Group, Bridgetown Initiative of the Government of Barbados, UN HABITAT, IEA, CAF
Objective and Format: This multi-stakeholder dialogue aims to integrate environmental risk into the global financial system by reframing climate finance as key to development, fostering collaboration between civil society and the private sector, and identifying actionable mechanisms for a just transition. It will be composed of a high-level 90-minute roundtable followed by short, focused interventions and moderated discussion.
Join us online via livestream:
👉 https://clubmadrid-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tnOCnmqgStKmfhxmj3TQdQ#/registration
Strengthening Principles for Global Cooperation in the Financing for Development (FfD) IV Outcome Document
Official Side event
📆 July 2, 2025, 12:30 pm-2:00 pm | FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre, Side Event Room 19
📲 Event Details
Organizers: Impact Coalition on IFA Reform
Objective and Format: This event will identify common threads that can be taken forward from FfD4 into South Africa’s G20 presidency, COP30 in Brazil and the Second World Summit for Social Development and will explore the potential for identifying other opportunities to agree on ways of implementing these principles would strengthen the capacity of countries to meet both traditional development needs and emergent global public goods challenges and ensure that the financing mechanisms of the future are responsive, fair, inclusive, and effective while crucially also fostering resilience.
High-Level Panel & Reception with Oxfam
Panel and Reception
📆 July 1, 2025, 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Only YOU Hotel
📲 Event Details
Financing Development in an Era of Extreme Inequality
In partnership with Oxfam, Club de Madrid will lead a high-level dialogue and reception addressing the urgent need to reform development finance in the face of global inequality, sovereign debt crises, and the decline of traditional aid systems. The session will explore political shifts and multilateral strategies needed to forge a fairer financial system. In-Person – Registration here
Strengthening Principles for Global Cooperation in the Financing for Development (FfD) IV Outcome Document
Official Side Event
📆 July 2, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Side Event Room 19, FIBES Conference Centre
📲 Event Details
Organizers: Club de Madrid, the Global Public Investment Network, and the Impact Coalition for IFA Reform. It is supported by NORAD, AECID, the Government of Chile, OHCHR, UNRISD, ICRICT, and the Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN).
Objective and Format: This session introduces a bold vision for global cooperation through Global Public Investment (GPI) — a new model based on shared contribution, benefit, and decision-making. The panel will advocate for embedding GPI principles into the FfD4 Outcome Document and future global financing frameworks.
Join us online via livestream:
👉 https://clubmadrid-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/S2POOdNPS12x9Zs7J44_cw#/registration
Additional Engagements Featuring Club de Madrid Members
Monday 30 June
- 12:30–14:00 | Igarapé Side Event: Bridging Global Agendas: Scaling Up Financing for People and Planet from FfD4 to COP30
📍 Room 8 | 🎤 Speaker: President Alvarado - 12:30 - 2:00 PM | High-level panel on "From FFD4 outcome to implementation: Unlocking the potential of private capital for sustainable development 📍FIBES, Side event 8
- 14:30–16:00 | FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies) – New Strategic Partnerships for Development
📍 Venue TBC | 🎤 Speaker: PM Touré
Tuesday 1 July
- 14:30–16:00 | GWL (Global Women Leaders) Voices: Financing Women for a Fair Future
📍 Room 5 | 🎤 Speaker: PM Touré
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