Thousands of activists take to the streets in mobilisations ahead of the Fourth International Confeence on Financing for Development (FfD4)

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The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) is scheduled to take place from 30 June to 3 July 2025, in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre, Spain. The outcome document of the conference, entitled Compromiso de Sevilla, was adopted on Tuesday 17 June, at the second part of the fourth Preparatory Committee meeting in New York (the recording can be watched here). However, there are still relevant opportunities and side events to explore as we move towards a post FfD4 context.

The Compromiso de Sevilla falls short of the ambition needed to address the worsening debt and climate crises, poverty and inequalities in the global south.

The involvement of private finance in infrastructure and services provision is not new. However, the focus on leverage private finance has increased in recent decades, particularly after the adoption of the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA), at the Third UN Conference on Financing for Development (FfD). Despite that, the initiatives promoted have proved to be far from what is needed, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seem increasingly out of reach. The current FfD process – as the only global space in which all countries have an equal voice – has the potential for transformational development in the global south. As the Fourth FfD Conference (FfD4) in Sevilla approaches, there is an opportunity for a thorough overhaul of private finance in development.

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This blog first appeared on POLITICO Europe.

Over 200 civil society organisations are urging European leaders to commit to a transformative and ambitious agenda of financial architecture reform at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.

Written by Christina Fenandez-Duran (Oxfam Interim Head of EU Office), Javier García de la Oliva (Head of Country Engagement and Transformation Europe and Americas at ActionAid International) and Jean Saldanha (Director at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)).

Read the piece in full on EU Observer

Fifty days ahead of the 4th UN Financing for Development Conference (FfD4), a coalition of nine EU NGOs are launching the campaign “Era of Justice” to show how the multiple crises our world is living are deeply interconnected and to call on governments to take decisive action.