Voluntary Commitments and Initiatives

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Registering commitments publicly brings more predictability and transparency to the achievement of the Financing for Development agenda and the goals laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.

Voluntary commitments and government announcements complement the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and are recognized as part of the outcome of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.

 

Governments

United KingdomOfficial Development Assistance (ODA)
United KingdomThe UK commitment to double support for domestic revenue mobilisation by 2020 under the Addis Tax Initiative.
United KingdomA £735m capital increase to CDC Group to invest in businesses to create jobs in the world’s poorest places
CanadaCentre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS)
SwedenSweden commits to continue to allocate more than 1% ODA/GNI and more than 0,20% ODA/GNI to LDCs
GermanyG7 Climate Risk Insurance Initiative
GermanyG7 Renewable Energy Initiative
NetherlandsProviding 30 million people with water and 50 million people with sanitary facilities
GermanyG7 Support to implementing the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations
NetherlandsMulti-donor SDG#6 trust fund with the EIB
GermanyWomen’s Economic Empowerment in developing countries – TVET
NetherlandsSetting up local ‘Water Financing Facilities’ in 10 countries
GermanyG7 commitment regarding hunger and malnutrition

Others

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Foundation Center, UNDP and other PartnersSDGs Philanthropy Platform
Tax Justice Network - Africa on behalf of the CSO Interim Working Group“Stop the Bleeding” Africa IFF Campaign
Children's Investment Fund FoundationInvestment in data to track coverage of nutrition interventions
Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationChild Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network
Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationThe Healthy Birth, Growth, and Development (HBGD) knowledge integration (HBGDki) initiative
Various countries / organisationsAddis Tax Initiative
United Cities and Local GovernmentsGlobal observatory of local finance
Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationBMGF Commits 75M for Global Financing Facility
Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationBMGF Commits to Improving Health Data: Up to $95M for Two New 2015 Data Investments
FMDV – Global Fund for Cities DevelopmentSubnational Pooled Financing Mechanisms (SPFMs) International Platform
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develpoment & World Economic ForumSustainable Development Investment Partnership
ConvergenceConvergence: Blending Global Finance
EsriEsri to support the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SE4All)Financing Sustainable Energy for All
UN WomenAddis Ababa Action Plan on Transformative Financing for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
AbzeSolar S.A. in partnership with UNDPEmpowering the informal sector by further leveraging the MultiFunctional Platform Enterprises (MFP) in the Sub-Saharan African countries
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Islamic Development BankThe Lives and Livelihood Fund
International Renewable Energy AgencyIRENA Project Navigator
UN WomenAddis Ababa Action Plan on Transformative Financing for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
CANEUS InternationalPublic-Private-Partnerships Investment to create new global framework for sharing of space technology and data standards to serve nation’s disaster safety, security and socio-economic needs
SMEFUNDS GEBIOFUELSEthanol Gel Clean Cookstoves: Energy Access
Solar SisterA green energy revolution powered by African women’s enterprise
Financing for Development Office of the UN Department of Economic and Social AffairsUN Handbook on Selected Issues in Protecting the Tax Base of Developing Countries
OFID, the OPEC Fund for International DevelopmentOFID Ministerial Declaration on Energy Poverty: pledge of revolving amount of US$1bn
NEPAD AgencyBusiness Communique issued at the First Meeting of the Continental Business Network: Business Action in Support of African Regional Infrastructure Development
International Agri-Food NetworkA Call to Action for Talent Development in Agriculture “Growing Ambitions for Agricultural Professionals”
KopernikWonder Women Eastern Indonesia: Empowering Women to Expand Clean Energy Access
The OECD-DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET)Financing for gender equality and women’s rights
ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable EnergyENERGIA Gender and Energy Programme
UNDP and OECDTax Inspectors Without Borders

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