Substantive Sessions
The General Assembly held a series of substantive informal sessions, from October to December 2014.
Summary by the President of the General Assembly of the substantive informal sessions (A/CONF.227/3)
Following an opening session on 17 October 2014, the co-facilitators of the preparatory process for the Conference, Ambassador George Wilfred Talbot (Guyana) and Ambassador Geir O. Pedersen (Norway), convened two rounds of substantive informal sessions, as follows:
- Mobilization and effective use of resources (10-13 November 2014)
- Enabling environment, systemic issues, follow-up process and learning from partnerships (9-12 December 2014).
The substantive sessions served to review the progress made in the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, and to discuss new and emerging issues to be addressed at the Addis Ababa Conference, notably in the context of the post-2015 development agenda.
Substantive sessions
First Round of Substantive Informal Sessions (10 – 13 November 2014)
Second Round of Substantive Informal Sessions (9 – 12 December 2014)
- Enabling and conducive policy environment
- Trade, investment, and technology
- Governance
- Learning from partnerships and follow-up process
Side events
- The modernisation of ODA and measurement of broader development finance for an accountable post-2015 development framework (12 November 2014)
- Summary – Remittances and Diaspora Resources in the context of the Preparatory Process for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (13 November 2014)
- Agenda – Remittances and Diaspora Resources in the context of the Preparatory Process for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (13 November 2014)
- Financing for Development: What is at stake for the LDCs? (9 December 2014)
- Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Architecture (9 December 2014)
- Dialogue between the co-facilitators of the preparatory process for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development with civil society and the business sector (10 December 2014)
- Gender equality and women’s rights in the Financing for Development framework (11 December 2014)
- Delivering on the Post-2015 Development Agenda: What Role for Public-Private Partnerships? (12 December 2014)
Inputs
- European Union (inputs to the substantive informal sessions of November 2014): “Global Context”; “Domestic Public Finance”; “International Public Finance, including ODA”; “Private Finance and Blended Finance”
- European Union: Inputs to the substantive informal sessions of December 2014
- UNCTAD: “The Role of Trade in Financing for Sustainable Development”
- DCF Secretariat: “South-South Development Cooperation”
- DCF Secretariat and Development Initiatives: “Improving ODA allocation for a post-2015 world″
- Sustainable Development Solutions Network: “Financing for Sustainable Development”
- What Outcomes Should be agreed in Addis Ababa in 2015? (endorsed by more than 130 civil society organisations and networks) — also available in French and Spanish
- Development Initiatives: “The Global Context”
- ONE: Policy Recommendations for the Addis Ababa Conference
- Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development: Inputs to the substantive informal sessions of December 2014
- Transparency and Accountability (Civil Society)