Dear colleagues,
Welcome to this second full meeting of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development.
Since we met for the first time, only four months ago, this Task Force has produced its first report in time for the inaugural ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up. I would like to thank all of you for the hard work and great cooperation that enabled us to prepare this document in record time. I am most grateful for the flexibility that all of you showed in producing work of high quality while meeting very tight deadlines.
The report brings together the wide array of knowledge available in this Task Force. For each of the thematic clusters, it lays out, in detail, the best currently available sources of data for monitoring, discusses the quality of the data, and presents other monitoring methods such as qualitative and contextual analysis and case studies. Such a comprehensive approach was possible only because all of you contributed in your areas of expertise.
Our joint effort paid off.
The report was very well received by Member States, who explicitly welcomed it in the agreed conclusions and recommendations of the Forum. It will also inform deliberations on the means of implementation of the SDGs during the High-level Political Forum in July.
Member States endorsed the proposed three-pronged approach of the Task Force. They look forward to future reports, which will contain the following three elements:
We will report on progress in implementation and provide policy options for corrective action across the action areas in next year’s report and, more extensively, in an on-line annex. By assessing the global context, this reporting will be grounded in current realities and will address new and emerging issues. Thematic analysis should allow us to tie our inputs to the broader thematic focus adopted in relevant intergovernmental processes in any one year.
Before opening the floor for your comments, feedback and contributions, I will ask Alex to expand on the intergovernmental follow-up to the Financing for Development outcomes, on the mandate given to the Task Force, and on what further guidance to expect from Member States. Shari will then lay out a first proposal for the work programme of the Task Force for the remainder of 2016 and 2017.
I look forward to our discussion.
Thank you.
Welcome to this second full meeting of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development.
Since we met for the first time, only four months ago, this Task Force has produced its first report in time for the inaugural ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up. I would like to thank all of you for the hard work and great cooperation that enabled us to prepare this document in record time. I am most grateful for the flexibility that all of you showed in producing work of high quality while meeting very tight deadlines.
The report brings together the wide array of knowledge available in this Task Force. For each of the thematic clusters, it lays out, in detail, the best currently available sources of data for monitoring, discusses the quality of the data, and presents other monitoring methods such as qualitative and contextual analysis and case studies. Such a comprehensive approach was possible only because all of you contributed in your areas of expertise.
Our joint effort paid off.
The report was very well received by Member States, who explicitly welcomed it in the agreed conclusions and recommendations of the Forum. It will also inform deliberations on the means of implementation of the SDGs during the High-level Political Forum in July.
Member States endorsed the proposed three-pronged approach of the Task Force. They look forward to future reports, which will contain the following three elements:
- First, a discussion of the global context and its implications for the follow-up to the Financing for Development outcomes;
- Second, an overview of progress in each chapter of the Addis Agenda, with detailed monitoring carried out in an on-line annex;
- And third, analyses of thematic issues, with themes to be decided by Member States in due course.
We will report on progress in implementation and provide policy options for corrective action across the action areas in next year’s report and, more extensively, in an on-line annex. By assessing the global context, this reporting will be grounded in current realities and will address new and emerging issues. Thematic analysis should allow us to tie our inputs to the broader thematic focus adopted in relevant intergovernmental processes in any one year.
Before opening the floor for your comments, feedback and contributions, I will ask Alex to expand on the intergovernmental follow-up to the Financing for Development outcomes, on the mandate given to the Task Force, and on what further guidance to expect from Member States. Shari will then lay out a first proposal for the work programme of the Task Force for the remainder of 2016 and 2017.
I look forward to our discussion.
Thank you.
File date:
Wednesday, May 11, 2016