The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) takes place in Seville, Spain from 30 June to 3 July 2025 and the conference outcome document will be shaped by a series of negotiations, formal and informal, among Member States. The negotiations are steered by a team of Member State co-facilitators — Mexico, Nepal, Norway and Zambia.
Starting with the Elements Paper in November 2022, this process has progressed through three Preparatory Committee sessions (PrepComs), with the 4th happening in two parts (Part 1 from 30 April to 1 May and Part 2 in mid-June), and supplemented with Intersessionals (see Roadmap).
The direction of the negotiations is captured in successive revisions, and while (Rev.1) offers the stated aim of “an ambitious package of reforms and actions to catalyse sustainable development investment at scale to close this financing gap with urgency”, diverse Member State positions, compromises and trade-offs will determine the level of ambition and details of the final outcome.
Tracking the successive drafts and revisions provides some insights into the process and, with this in mind, this briefing compares language from the Zero Draft and the 1st Revision (Rev.1), with publicly made statements from the Member States during the 3rd PrepCom.
This briefing has been prepared by Mara Levi and Nikki Veltkamp, students at the Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School, with support from Julie Kim & Barbara Adams.
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II-A. Domestic public resources
II-B. Domestic and international private business and finance
II-C. International Development Cooperation
II-D. International Trade as an Engine For Development
II-E. Debt and Debt Sustainability
II-F. Addressing Systemic Issues → International Financial Architecture and Systemic Issues
II-G. Science, Technology, Innovation and Capacity Building
III. Data, monitoring, and follow up
