Financing for Development
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The Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008) resulted in the adoption by consensus of the Doha
Declaration on Financing for Development. Officials from more than 160 countries, including nearly 40 Heads of State or Government, attended the four day conference. The Doha Declaration reaffirms 
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebethe Monterrey Consensus and calls for a United Nations conference at the highest level on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development.
Doha Review Conference
The Doha Review Conference adopted the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development (A/CONF.212/7).
Multi-stakeholder Consultations
On
the Road to Doha, the Financing for Development Office (FfDO)
organized multi-stakeholder consultations on:
Calendar of Events
Upcoming events
- 24-26 June 2009, New YorkUnited Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development
- 29 June 2009, New YorkECOSOC informal consultations on strengthening of FfD follow-up process
Past events
- 27 April 2009, New York
Special High-level Meeting of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - 20 April 2009, New York
ECOSOC Panel discussion on “Civil society perspectives on the Financing for Development Agenda”
2002 International Conference on FfD
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NEW DOCUMENTS
Letter from President of ECOSOC and draft resolution on FfD follow-up (10 June 2009)- Summary by the President of the Economic and Social Council of the special high-level meeting of the Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (New York, 27 April 2009)-(A/64/76-E/2009/60)
- Report of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (Doha,Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008) (A/CONF.212/7)
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Resolutions
- GA resolution on "Organization of a United Nations conference at the highest level on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development"
(A/RES/63/277) - GA resolution on "Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus"
(A/RES/63/239) - ECOSOC
resolution on "Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing
for Development"
(E/2008/L.16) - GA
resolution on "Follow-up International Conference on Financing for
Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus"
(A/RES/63/208) - GA resolution on "International financial system and development" (A/RES/63/205)
- GA resolution on "External debt and development: towards a durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries" (A/RES/63/206)
Reports and Summaries
- Note by the Secretary-General on "Coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context of the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development"-(E/2009/48)
- Report of the Second Committee on "Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the preparation of the 2008 Review Conference" (A/63/413), (A/63/413 (Part I)/Corr.1) and (A/63/413 (Part II))
- Note by the Secretary-General on "Proposed organization of work of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus" (A/63/345)
- Report of the Secretary-General on "The latest developments related to the review process on financing for development and the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus" (A/63/179)
- Summaries by the President of the General Assembly of the review sessions on the six thematic areas of the Monterrey Consensus, held in New York between February and May 2008 (A/62/921)