Second drafting session for the Addis Ababa Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) – day 5

(Based on report from IISD) 

Ambassadors Macharia Kamau of Kenya and David Donoghue of Ireland, Co-Facilitators of the post-2015 process, addressed the drafting session on Friday morning.

Ambassador Kamau stressed the expectation that FfD3 will link directly to the post-2015 agenda by addressing the Means of Implementation (MOI) for the SDGs. While emphasizing FfD3 will not be a pledging conference, he noted a high expectation that commitments would be made to implement the post-2015 agenda over the next 15 years. Ambassador Donoghue said that the joint session between the FfD3 and post-2015 processes was scheduled to include coherence between the two processes, as well as a briefing on options for a technology facilitation mechanism and an interactive dialogue with multistakeholders.

The session then returned briefly to a discussion on data, monitoring and follow-up, during which the United States emphasized the role of data in enabling decision-makers to better target funding. Switzerland then read a joint cross-regional statement on behalf of over 30 countries, highlighting the importance of integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment strongly in every section of the FfD3 outcome document, saying this was not only the right thing to do, but also smart economics.

In discussions on the organization of future work, Co-Facilitator George Talbot (Guyana) said that two intersessional meetings would be held in May 2015 (one from 26-29 May), where a compilation of statements from this meeting would be presented along with a revised Co-Facilitators’ draft, to be negotiated paragraph-by-paragraph. An additional drafting session may also take place in June 2015.

Developed countries welcomed a revised draft as the basis for further negotiations. The Russian Federation called for a line-by-line negotiation of a compiled text, based on comments at this drafting session, projected on a screen in a smaller room, with provisions for free seating. 

Concluding the meeting, Co-Facilitator Geir Pedersen (Norway) expressed the hope that continued cooperation would lead to a successful FfD3 outcome. 

The session ended at 11:56 am.

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Note: IISD Reporting Services will produce a summary and analysis of this drafting session on Monday 20 April 2015, to which this website will provide a link.