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Ten meetings of informal consultations on the third international conference on financing for development

  • Date: 20 March - 5 June 2014
  • Location: New York

Modalities for the third international conference on financing for development

In its resolution of 20 December 2013 on “Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development”, the General Assembly decided “to convene, in 2015 or 2016, a third international conference on financing for development.”

The conference will have a comprehensive agenda “to assess the progress made in the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development, reinvigorate and strengthen the financing for development follow-up process, identify obstacles and constraints encountered in the achievement of the goals and objectives agreed therein, as well as actions and initiatives to overcome these constraints, and to address new and emerging issues, including in the context of the recent multilateral efforts to promote international development cooperation, and taking into account the current evolving development cooperation landscape, the inter-relationship of all sources of development finance, the synergies between financing objectives across the three dimensions of sustainable development, as well as the need to support the 51³Ô¹Ï development agenda beyond 2015.”

In the same resolution, the General Assembly requested the President of the General Assembly “to convene, as soon as possible, inclusive and transparent intergovernmental consultations, with the participation of the major institutional stakeholders involved in the financing for development process, as appropriate, on all issues related to the conference, including the date, format, organization and scope”, and requested the Financing for Development Office of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide secretariat support for the consultations.

By a letter of 31 January 2014 addressed to all Member States, the President of the 68th session of the 51³Ô¹Ï General Assembly, H.E. Mr. John W. Ashe, appointed H.E. Mr. George Wilfred Talbot, Permanent Representative of Guyana, and H.E. Mr. Geir O. Pedersen, Permanent Representative of Norway, as co-facilitators to lead the intergovernmental consultations on his behalf. A total of ten informal meetings, held during the period from 20 March to 5 June 2014, resulted in the agreement among delegations on a draft resolution on key issues related to the modalities of the conference and its preparatory process.

Mandate

  • on “Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development”

Outcome

  • on “Modalities for the third International Conference on Financing for Development” (A/RES/68/279)

Letters

Meetings

  • First meeting, 20 March 2014, New York
  • Second meeting, 28 April 2014, New York
  • Third meeting, 13 May 2014, New York
  • Fourth meeting, 20 May 2014, New York
  • Fifth meeting, 23 May 2014, New York
  • Sixth meeting, 28 May 2014, New York
  • Seventh meeting, 30 May 2014, New York
  • Eighth meeting, 2 June 2014, New York
  • , 4 June 2014, New York
  • Tenth meeting, 5 June 2014, New York

Background

  • Background information on substantive matters
  • Historical background: major outcomes
  • March 2002: Monterrey Consensus of the .
  • December 2008: Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus ()
  • June 2009: Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development ()
  • September 2010: Outcome of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals ()
  • June 2012: ”: outcome document of the (A/RES/66/288)

Resolutions

  • ECOSOC resolutions
  • on “Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development”
  • on “Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development”
  • on “Follow-up to the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development: consideration of the possible establishment of an ad hoc panel of experts”
  • on “Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development”
  • on “Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference”
  • on “A strengthened and more effective intergovernmental inclusive process to carry out the financing for development follow-up”
  • General Assembly resolutions
  • on “Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development”
  • on “Commodities”
  • on “External debt sustainability and development”
  • on “International financial system and development” (A/RES/68/201)
  • on “International trade and development” (A/RES/68/199)

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