High-level Dialogue on FfD
The General Assembly decided to postpone the holding its fourth High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, originally scheduled for 23-24 November 2009, on the understanding that the new dates are to be determined no later than 11 December 2009. Under the overall theme “The Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: status of implementation and tasks ahead”, the two day event will include a series of plenary and informal meetings. Plenary meetings will take place on the first day of the Dialogue. On the second day, there will be 3 round tables (morning) and an interactive dialogue (afternoon), as follows:
- Round table 1: “The reform of the international monetary and financial system and its implications for development”;
- Round table 2: “The impact of the current financial and economic crisis on foreign direct investment and other private flows, external debt and international trade”;
- Round table 3: “The role of financial and technical development cooperation, including innovative sources of development finance, in leveraging the mobilization of domestic and international financial resources for development”;
- Informal interactive dialogue: “The link between financing for development and achieving the Millennium Development Goals: the road to the 2010 high-level event”.
Calendar of Events
Upcoming events
- September-December 2009, New York64th session of the General Assembly
- 2010 (dates TBD), New YorkHigh-Level Dialogue on FfD
- 2010 (dates TBD), New YorkSpecial high-level meeting on ECOSOC with BWIs, WTO and UNCTAD
Past events
- 13 November 2009, GenevaMulti-stakeholder consultation on external debt
- 30 October 2009, New YorkPanel discussion on “Revitalizing the International Financial System”
- 29 October 2009, New YorkPanel discussion on “Impact of the Financial Crisis on Employment, Migration, Trade and Debt”
- 6-31 July 2009, GenevaECOSOC substantive session
Multi-stakeholder Consultations
Pursuant to the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, the Financing for Development Office (FfDO)
organized multi-stakeholder consultations on:
Doha Review Conference
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 reaffirmed 
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebethe Monterrey Consensus and called for a United Nations conference at the highest level on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development.
Financial Crisis Summit
By its resolution 63/303 of 9 July 2009, the General Assembly endorsed the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development, held in New York from 24 to 30 June 2009. The 59-paragraph document sets forth a global consensus on the causes, impacts and responses to the current crisis; prioritizes the prompt, decisive and coordinated actions that are required; and defines a clear role for the United Nations.
2002 International Conference on FfD
- Overview
- Doha Review Conference
- Events
- Documents
- Intergovernmental Follow-up
- Civil Society & Business Sector
- Multistakeholder Consultations
- Tax Cooperation Committee
- Innovative Finance
- Newsletter
- Trust Fund
NEW DOCUMENTS
Draft General Assembly resolution on "Modalities for the fourth High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development"
(A/C.2/64/L.28)- Report of the Secretary-General on "The promotion and enhancement of a coordinated response of the UN development system and the specialized agencies in the follow-up to and implementation of the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development"
(E/2009/114) - Note by the Secretariat on "Enhancing collaboration and cooperation between the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions" (E/2009/115)
- Note by the Secretariat on "Possible establishment of an ad hoc panel of experts on the world economic and financial crisis and its impact on development"
(E/2009/113) - Note by the Secretary-General on "Proposed organization of work of the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development" (A/64/377)
Resolutions
- GA decision 63/564 on "High-Level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Financing for Development" (A/63/L.102)
- GA resolution 63/305 on "Establishment of an ad hoc open-ended working group of the General Assembly to follow up on the issues contained in the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development" (A/RES/63/305)
- GA resolution on "Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development" (A/RES/63/303)
- ECOSOC resolution 2009/30 on "A strengthened and more effective intergovernmental inclusive process to carry out the financing for development follow-up" (see E/2009/INF/2/Add.1, page 88)
- ECOSOC decision 2009/258 on "Follow-up to paragraph 56 of the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development"
- 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)
Reports and Summaries
- Report of the Secretary-General on "Follow-up to and implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration on Financing for Development" (A/64/322)
- Report of the Secretary-General on "Progress report on innovative sources of development finance" (A/64/189)
- Report of the Secretary-General on "International financial system and development" (A/64/178)
- Report of the Secretary-General on "Towards a durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries" (A/64/167)
- Report of the Secretary-General on "International trade and development" (A/64/177)
- 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)