FfD4 Conference

Official side events

Eurodad is supporting some of the side events that the Civil Society FfD Mechanism is organising - notably on debt, tax, international development cooperation and private finance:

• Tuesday 1 July, 8:30-10:00 am, Auditorium 3, ‘Walking the talk on Domestic Public Resources: From FfD4 to the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation’
• Tuesday 1 July, 10:30-12:00 pm, Auditorium 3, ‘Time for a real reform of the Debt Architecture: the case for the UN Debt Framework Convention and an Intergovernmental Process on Sovereign Debt’
• Tuesday 1 July, 12:30-2:00 pm, Auditorium 3, ‘Towards restoring trust in the International Development Cooperation in an increasingly multipolar world’
• Tuesday 1 July, 9:00-12:00 pm and 2:30-6 pm, Auditorium 1, ‘High Level Feminist Forum - ‘Reclaiming Financing for Gender Justice and Structural Transformation’
• Wednesday 2 July, 10:30-12:00 pm, Auditorium 3, ‘Filling the Private Finance Regulatory Gap: Moving Beyond the Derisking State’

Eurodad will also be co-organising or speaking at the following side events

• Monday 30 June, 12:00-1:30pm, online, ‘Advancing inclusive development through accountable and people-centered social protection’, co-sponsored by the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent.
• Tuesday 1 July, 8:30-10:00am, Main Event Room 23, ‘A Global Public Development Bank Ecosystem, Climate-Aligned Finance, and the Right to Development’. Maria Jose Romero (Policy and Advocacy Manager - Development Finance at Eurodad) will be speaking at this session, which is co-organised by Thomas Marois, Public Banking Project, McMaster University, Diana Barrowclough, United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and others.
• Tuesday 1 July, 4:30-6:00pm, Auditorium 3, ‘Debt and Climate: Interconnected Crises and Responses’, co-sponsored by ActionAid, CAN, Christian Aid, Debt Justice, AFRODAD, LATINDADD, Debt4Climate, Ecological & Climate Finance & Debt Workstreams of Civil Society FFD mechanism and Oil Change International, among others.
• Thursday 3 July, 12:30-2pm, Room 15, ‘FfD4 side event ‘Inclusive Multilateralism and International Debt Architecture’, co-sponsored by Venro, German NGO Forum on Environment and Development, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and ITUC African, among others.
• Thursday 3 July, 8:30-10:00am, Side Event 3, ‘Update on the progress towards the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation: challenges and opportunities’, co-sponsored by Tax Justice Network Africa and ATAF.

CSO activities (prior and during the official Conference)

Civil Society Forum

The Civil Society Forum will take place on 28-29 June at Hotel Melia. The Forum is being organised by the Civil Society FfD Mechanism in close cooperation with the national, regional and local CSO coordination platforms in Spain, also active members of the Mechanism. It is open to all interested and registered civil society organisations. The CSO Forum will offer an opportunity for CSOs to convene, connect, and prepare prior to the FfD4 official opening (see Forum programme). The registration is closed. 

Following the CS FfD Forum, Spanish Civil Society, in coordination with the CS FfD Mechanism, is organising the Civil Society March on 29 June from 19:30 to 21:30. The meeting point and start of the march will be Jardines de Cristina, and the final destination will be Plaza de la Encarnación (Las Setas).

Feminist Forum

The Feminist Forum will take place on 27-28 June at the Hotel Hiralda Center (click here to see the programme). The Feminist Forum, convened just before the CSO Forum and official FfD4 proceedings, serves as a vibrant political commons where feminist advocates, activists, researchers, and organisers from every region converge to refine collective positions, forge unified strategies, and assert a powerful feminist voice within, and beyond, the Financing for Development process. The registration for the Feminist Forum is also closed.

Financing Public Services Conference - ‘Fulfilling Human Rights and Building a Care Society’

The Conference will take place on 27 June at Hotel Ribera de Triana (click here to see the programme). It is organised by ten organisations, including Eurodad’s members, and co-sponsored by eighteen organisations, including AFRODAD, Eurodad, LATINDADD and Tax Justice Network Africa. It seeks to create a space for collaborative exchange and bold, forward-thinking solutions to forge a more unified, strategic and impactful approach to financing public services and fulfilling human rights; laying the foundation for a more just, equitable and caring society. In-person registration is closed, however virtual participation is possible - register here.

Debt4Climate Hub ‘Decolonial Territory: A Convergence Space for Economic and Climate Justice during FfD4’

From June 30 until July 3, the Debt4Climate Hub will gather movements advocating for economic, decolonial, social, ecological and climate justice (more info here). This is an alternative platform, aiming to connect, strengthen, and amplify movements fighting for radical alternatives—such as unconditional debt cancellation, grant based climate finance, post-growth economics, and other decolonial perspectives. Designed to build momentum toward future mobilisations, like COP30 and Jubilee campaigns, the space offers inclusive and creative programming open to all. Participants include local and global grassroots movements, artists and students. Each evening features exhibitions and networking (6–7 pm), critical panels and workshops (7–9 pm), and cultural performances (9–11 pm). The program will be published soon. The Hub will take place at Tramallol, Pje. Mallol, 22, Casco Antiguo, 41003 Sevilla.

On Debt Row: A multidisciplinary art exhibition on debt and its impact on the Global South’s lives

From June 29 to July 1 APWLD, ESCR-Net, and Debt4Climate organise an exhibition program of artistic expressions on debt from the Global South, in parallel with FfD4. In collaboration with photographer Jairo Alvarez, the photographic series Beyond Debt is created to visually articulate proposals for transforming the international financial architecture, envisioning a world where finance serves people, not the other way around. As a utopian project, the series uses art to imagine and make visible seemingly impossible alternatives, challenging dominant narratives of economic inevitability. It follows the earlier series Eyeing the Debt, which exposed the human rights impacts of debt and austerity. See the program of the exhibition here.

The Rabat Roadmap: A Collective Feminist Agenda for People and Planet Virtual Side Event

In May 2025, global feminists convened in Rabat (Morocco), and generated the Rabat Roadmap as a basis for collective advocacy, guided by the knowledge of feminists from the Middle East and North Africa region and the Global South more broadly. On 30 June at 2:30-4 pm CEST, this virtual side event will present the Roadmap. On the sidelines of FfD4, the event will delve into the conference’s policy arenas including tax, debt, and global economic governance, and make links to the climate justice agenda and the upcoming COP30. Grounding in solidarity to counter neoliberal, extractivist, white supremacist and patriarchal hegemony, this event will explore ways to advance feminist alternatives that center care for people and the planet. Register here.