Special Events
-
2020 Development Cooperation Forum High-level Meeting
14 - 15 May 2020 – New York
-
Launch of the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance
16 October 2019 – Conference Room 2 -
VNR Lab 9: Mobilizing resources and empowering people through inclusive finance
15 July 2019, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – Conference Room 11, UNHQ, New York -
2019 SDG Investment Fair
15 - 17 April 2019 – New York, United States -
DCF Side Event at BAPA+40: Promoting the Strategic Role of South-South and triangular cooperation to achieve the 2030 Agenda
20 March 2019 -
Informal multi-stakeholder consultation: Making finance work for a sustainable world in 2019 and beyond
14 January 2019, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – New York
-
Global Infrastructure Forum 2018
13 October 2018 – Indonesia -
Panel discussion on “Stepping up to the Challenges on Domestic Resource Mobilization – the Power of Cooperation
9 October 2018 – Indonesia -
Secretary-General’s High-level Meeting on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
24 September 2018, 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm – UN Headquarters, New York -
Voluntary National Review (VNR) Lab on “Mobilizing Resources for the SDGs”
17 July 2018, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm – New York, United States -
2018 SDG Investment Fair
22 April 2018 – New York -
Informal technical briefing series on the 2018 report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development
5 - 9 March 2018 – New York, United States -
Informal dialogue on the progress of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development in preparing its 2018 report
23 February 2018 – New York -
Public briefing of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development on the Global Economic Context
2 February 2018, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm – New York
-
Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development: Briefing on the African Economic Context
30 November 2017, 8:30 am - 9:45 am – New York, USA -
High-level Conference on Financing for Development and the Means of Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
18 - 19 November 2017 – Doha, Qatar -
Informal dialogue on the progress of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development in preparing its 2018 report and online annex
27 October 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – Conference Room 7, UN Headquarters, New York -
Informal briefing on “Preparations for the 2018 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up”
5 October 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – New York -
ECOSOC special meeting on innovations for infrastructure development and promoting sustainable industrailization
31 May 2017 – Trusteeship Council -
Global Infrastructure Forum 2017
22 April 2017 – Washington D.C. -
Informal public dialogue on the draft of the 2017 report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development (IATF on FFD)
13 April 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – New York -
Third and final briefing on “2017 Global Infrastructure Forum” organized by FfDO/DESA, EIB and IADB
30 March 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – New York, USA -
Informal dialogue on the progress of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development (IATF on FFD) in preparing its 2017 report and online annex
6 February 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – New York -
Financing social protection floors: side event to the 55th Commission on Social Development
3 February 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – New York -
Briefing on “Future of financing for sustainable development” organized by the Office of the President of the General Assembly and the World Bank Group
26 January 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm – New York, USA -
Second briefing on “2017 Global Infrastructure Forum” organized by FfDO/DESA, EIB and IADB
23 January 2017, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm – New York, USA
-
Member State briefing 2017 Global Infrastructure Forum
7 November 2016, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm – UN Headquarters, New York -
Habitat III side event – Linking the New Urban Agenda to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda: Strengthen Municipal Finance in LDCs
18 October 2016, 10:00 am - 11:30 am – Ecuador -
Expert Group Meeting on Public-Private Interfaces
10 - 11 October 2016 – New York -
Asia Expert Group Meeting on Strengthening Municipal Finance in LDCs
5 - 6 September 2016 – Bangkok, Thailand -
Consultation with Civil Society on engagement in the FfD follow-up process
3 - 4 August 2016 – New York -
Blended finance in the SDG Era
20 July 2016, 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm – Conference Room E, United Nations Headquarters, New York -
HLPF 2016 Side event – Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development “Monitoring progress on the means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda”
12 July 2016, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm – Conference Room 6, United Nations Headquarters, New York -
Africa Expert Group Meeting on Strengthening Municipal Finance in LDCs
29 February - 1 March 2016 – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -
Retreat of the Informal Group of Friends of Monterrey
28 - 29 January 2016 – Mexico City, Mexico
-
UN-ITC Workshop on Administration of Tax Treaties and Addressing Base-Eroding Payments
1 - 3 December 2015 – Berlin, Germany -
Sovereign Debt and the Restructuring Architecture: Where are we now?
2 October 2015 – Washington, D.C. -
International Business Forum
14 July 2015 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -
CSO FfD Forum
11 - 12 July 2015 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -
Workshop on “Tax Incentives and Base Protection”
23 - 24 April 2015 – New York -
Lecture on “The end of the super-cycle: the time for taking stock of what went wrong” by Professor Paul Collier, University of Oxford
24 February 2015 – New York
-
Special event of GA Second Committee on “New instruments of social finance”
4 November 2014 – New York -
Briefing for Member States on “The funding requirements for third International Conference on Financing for Development”
22 October 2014 – New York -
Briefing on “Global Financial Reform: How might the 2015 International Conference on Financing for Development strengthen reform momentum?”
21 October 2014 – New York -
Roundtable discussion on “Global Financial Reform: How might the 2015 International Conference on Financing for Development strengthen reform momentum?”
20 October 2014 – New York -
Briefing on the Report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing
17 October 2014 – New York -
Implications of the Argentine Debt Litigation for the International Financial Architecture
7 October 2014 – New York -
Second Workshop on Tax Base Protection for Developing Countries
23 September 2014 – Paris, France -
Workshop on “Tax Base Protection for Developing Countries”
4 June 2014 – New York -
Expert Group Meeting on “Sovereign Debt Restructuring: The Road Ahead”
25 April 2014 – London, United Kingdom -
Panel Discussion “The Debt Problem of Small Vulnerable States: A Time to Act”
24 February 2014 – New York
-
EMTA Seminar on “Sovereign Debt Restructuring: the Road Ahead”
16 October 2013 – New York -
Technical meeting on “Tax treaty administration and negotiation”
30 - 31 May 2013 – New York -
Expert Group Meeting on “Extractive industries taxation”
28 May 2013 – New York -
Seminar on “New developments in sovereign debt restructuring”
16 April 2013 – Washington, D.C. -
Briefing on “Sovereign Debt crises, restructuring and resolution mechanisms”
11 April 2013 – New York -
Seminar on “International Tax Cooperation for Sustainable Development: The Role of the UN Model”
30 January 2013 – Rome, Italy -
Meetings on “Capacity Building on Tax Treaty Negotiation and Administration”
28 - 29 January 2013 – Rome, Italy
-
Panel discussion on “Facilitating international adjustment through timely debt resolution”
12 October 2012 – Tokyo, Japan -
Expert Group Meeting on “Sovereign Debt Restructuring” (closed meeting)
19 September 2012 – London, United Kingdom -
Expert Group Meeting on “Sovereign Debt Restructuring” (closed meeting)
18 May 2012 – New York -
Expert Group Meeting on “Transfer Pricing and Capacity Development in Tax Matters”
14 March 2012 – New York
-
Civil Society Forum on Financing for Development
6 December 2011 – New York -
Briefing by the World Bank and IMF on the outcome of the 2011 Annual Meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions
14 October 2011 – New York
-
Expert group meeting on “Regional Cooperation on Financing for Development”
15 - 16 November 2010 – New York -
Briefing by the World Bank and the IMF on the outcome of the 2010 Annual Meetings of the BWIs (programme with links to presentations)
12 October 2010 – New York -
Side Event “Innovative Financing for the MDGs: A Precondition for Success”
21 September 2010 – New York -
High Level Side-Event “Innovative Financing for the MDGs”
21 September 2010 – New York -
New Policy options for dealing with sovereign debt problems: discussion on recent initiatives
8 September 2010 – London, United Kingdom -
IMF briefing on low-income countries in the context of the MDGs
8 June 2010 – New York
-
Consultation on Policy Options for dealing with the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the External Debt of Developing Countries
13 November 2009 – Geneva -
Emerging Market Debt: Is the System Working Well Enough?
22 June 2009 – New York -
Emerging Market Debt: Is the System Working Well Enough?
8 June 2009 – New York -
ECOSOC Panel discussion on “Civil society perspectives on the Financing for Development Agenda”
20 April 2009 – New York -
ECOSOC Briefing by the World Bank and the IMF
9 March 2009 – New York
-
Side events held during the Doha Review Conference
29 November - 2 December 2008 – Doha, Qatar -
Second International Business Forum: Designing Roadmaps for Mobilizing Private Sector Resources for Development
28 November 2008 – Doha, Qatar -
Doha Global Civil Society Forum
26 - 27 November 2008 – Doha, Qatar -
Side event on “Emerging Challenges in Financing for Development”
11 October 2008 – Washington, D.C. -
Panel discussion on “Challenges and emerging issues in external debt restructuring”
10 October 2008 – New York -
Expert Group Meeting on “Transfer Pricing: A Discussion of the practical issues for developing countries”
27 - 28 August 2008 – Amsterdam, Netherlands -
Workshop on “Carbon Taxes – A Tool for Managing Climate Change or a Threat to the World’s Poor?”
17 June 2008 – New York -
Workshop on “Revenue’s Role in the Quest for Inclusive Development: What Works and What Can Work Better? South-South Sharing of Successful Tax Practices (S4TP)”
22 - 23 May 2008 – New York -
Expert Group Meeting on “Realizing the Potential of Diasporas to Reduce Poverty and Enhance Entrepreneurship”
13 May 2008 – New York -
Workshop II on “Debt, Finance and Emerging Issues in Financial Integration”
8 - 9 April 2008 – New York
-
Fourth regional consultation on “National and Regional Development Banks in Asia and the Pacific: Potential and Sustainability”
17 - 19 December 2007 – Bangkok, Thailand -
Third regional consultation on “Responsible Infrastructure Investment: Financing Access to Basic Utilities” (Asia and the Pacific)
17 - 19 December 2007 – Bangkok, Thailand -
Panel discussion on “Moving Out of Aid Dependency”
16 November 2007 – New York -
Panel discussion on “Financing for gender equality within the context of follow up to the Monterrey Consensus”
12 November 2007 – New York -
Side Events at the third High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development
22 - 23 October 2007 – New York -
Expert Group Meeting: Innovative Finance for Sustainable Development
18 - 19 October 2007 – New York -
Special Expert Group Meeting: Tax Aspects of Domestic Resource Mobilisation – a Discussion of Enduring and Emerging Issues
4 - 5 September 2007 – Rome, Italy -
Side events on “Tax Avoidance and Evasion as an Impediment to Development”
23 July 2007 – Geneva -
Second regional consultation on “Financing access to basic utilities for all” (Africa)
23 - 25 April 2007 – Lusaka, Zambia -
Side Events at the 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
16 April 2007 – New York -
Panel discussion on “Regulation of Microfinance”
10 April 2007 – New York -
Briefing on UNU-WIDER study on “World Distribution of Household Wealth”
29 March 2007 – New York -
Workshop on “Debt, finance and emerging issues in financial integration”
6 - 7 March 2007 – London, United Kingdom
-
First regional consultation on “Financing basic utilities for all” (Latin America and the Caribbean)
11 - 13 December 2006 – Brasilia, Brazil -
Third regional consultation on “Rethinking the Role of National Development Banks in Africa”
22 - 23 November 2006 – Johannesburg, South Africa -
Panel discussion on “Scaling up of aid flows”
20 October 2006 – New York -
Briefing on 2006 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings
12 October 2006 – New York -
Workshop on “Diasporas and the business sector”
5 - 6 October 2006 – New York -
Second regional consultation on “The Role of National and Regional Development Banks in Africa”
27 - 28 June 2006 – Paris, France -
Expert Group Meeting on “Financing basic utilities for all”
26 - 27 June 2006 – New York -
Seminar on “Challenges of NDBs in Latin America”
12 - 13 June 2006 – Lima, Peru -
Workshop on “Fostering Entrepreneurship in Africa”
9 June 2006 – Monastir, Tunisia -
Global Imbalances: An Indian Perspective
11 May 2006 – New York -
Side events at 2006 Special high-level meeting of ECOSOC
24 - 25 April 2006 – New York -
Seminar on GDP-Indexed Bonds: “An idea whose time has come”
21 April 2006 – Washington, D.C. -
Panel discussion on “Fiscal Space and National Development Strategies”
17 March 2006 – New York
-
Ad Hoc Expert Group meeting on “Rethinking the role of National Development Banks”
1 - 2 December 2005 – New York -
Seminar on GDP-indexed Bonds: “Making it Happen”
25 October 2005 – New York -
Side Events during the 60th Session of the General Assembly
3 October - 17 November 2005 – New York -
Fifth session of Dialogues managed by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition on “Systemic Issues”
30 - 31 August 2005 – New Delhi, India -
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Sovereign Debt for Sustained Development
20 - 22 June 2005 – Geneva -
Fourth session of Dialogues managed by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition on “Systemic Issues”
18 - 19 May 2005 -
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development
4 - 5 May 2005 – Geneva -
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development
19 - 20 April 2005 – Santiago, Chile -
Third session of Dialogues managed by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition on “Systemic Issues”
30 - 31 March 2005 – Nairobi, Kenya -
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Sovereign Debt for Sustained Development
17 March 2005 – Maputo, Mozambique -
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development
16 March 2005 – Manila, Philippines -
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Sovereign Debt for Sustained Development
7 - 8 March 2005 – New York -
Second session of Dialogues managed by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition on “Systemic Issues”
17 - 18 February 2005 – Lima, Peru -
Dialogues managed by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition in cooperation with the Financing for Development Office on “Systemic Issues”
17 - 18 February 2005 – Washington, D.C.
-
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development
6 - 8 December 2004 – Bamako, Mali -
Public-private partnerships for improving the effectiveness of development assistance: Health
3 - 4 December 2004 – New Delhi, India -
Dialogues managed by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition in cooperation with the Financing for Development Office on “Systemic Issues”
16 - 17 November 2004 – Washington, D.C. -
Public-private partnerships for improving the effectiveness of development assistance: Education
7 - 8 November 2004 – Brasilia, Brazil -
First consultation on leveraging official sector capital and enhancing financial governance
26 - 27 October 2004 – São Paulo, Brazil -
Public-private partnerships for improving the effectiveness of development assistance: Water
18 - 19 October 2004 – Durban, South Africa -
Multi-stakeholder Consultations on Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development
10 - 13 October 2004 – Amman, Jordan -
Seminar on “Regional Financial Arrangements”
14 - 15 July 2004 – New York -
High-level panel on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development
15 June 2004 – São Paulo, Brazil