First Drafting Session of the Outcome Document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 6:52AM 28-30 January 2015 | UN Headquarters, New York, US
The first drafting session of the outcome document of the third International Conference on Financing for Development has been rescheduled to be held in New York, from 28-30 January 2015, due to the inclement weather.
The outcome document, expected to be negotiated and agreed at the third International Conference on Financing for Development from 13 to 16 July 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will make an important contribution to the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda. There will also be a further two f drafting sessions scheduled for April and June 2015.
The International Conference on Financing for Development is mandated in General Assembly resolutions 68/204 and 68/279, to focus on, inter alia: assessing progress in the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration; addressing new and emerging issues; and reinvigorating and strengthening the financing for development follow-up process.
Among the items on the agenda are general discussions on the elements and the zero draft; domestic public finance; domestic and international private finance; international public finance; trade; technology, innovation and capacity building; sovereign debt; systemic issues; and monitoring, data and follow up. There will also be an item on building synergies with the post-2015 development agenda and other issues. The agenda is available for download.
The meeting will be co-chaired by Ambassadors George Wilfred Talbot of Guyana and Geir O Pedersen of Norway