4th International Conference on Financing for Development
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FFD4 is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to bring development and finance partners together toward a sustainable finance architecture that delivers for people and the planet. This Member State-led process is bringing diverse actors to the table to put domestic resource mobilization front and center while creating an enabling environment for private investment and a space for philanthropy to operate.
Side events
| Time CET | Title | Co-hosts | Venue |
| MONDAY 30 June 2025 | |||
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Integrated National Financing Frameworks Facility: Launch of a Seville Impact Initiative & INFF Documentary Premiere | Governments of Spain, Italy, Sweden, Catalonia, Canada, Nigeria; European Commission; INFF Facility (UNDP, DESA, OECD, UNICEF) | Side event 17 |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Integrating Climate and Biodiversity Finance for Sustainable Development | TBC | Side event 5 |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Country-driven approaches to financing climate action and sustainable development: launch of a Seville Impact Initiative (INFF, Country Platforms, Playbook) | AIIB/AFD | Side event 17 |
| TUESDAY 1 July 2025 | |||
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | From Recovery to Resilience: Unlocking Financing in a World of Rising Risks | Spain | Side event 22 |
| 8:30 am -10:00 am | Innovative Financing for Sustainable Development: Addressing Gaps and Scaling Solutions | Qatar Fund for Development | Side event 24 |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Public-private-philanthropic partnerships for sustainable finance | La Caixa Foundation, WINGS | Side event 8 |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | PAGE: Prosperity Through Resilience: Transforming Public Finance for a Thriving Future | PAGE, the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and the Convention on Biological Diversity | Side event 12 |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Debt swap - Optimizing use and support for debt for development swaps in view of accelerating progress in the implementation of the SDGs | Portugal, Cabo Verde, UNDP
| Side event 11 |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Reimagining Global Development Finance: Beyond Debt | Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), The Republic of Senegal, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) | Side event 8 |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Using Evidence & Dialogue to Drive Action: Launch of the 'Pact for Effective Development Co-operation' | GPEDC Co-Chairs (Sweden, Indonesia, DRC, CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness) | Side event 6 |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Strengthening Climate Finance Architecture in the light of LDC graduation in Asia Pacific | Governments of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Pacific SIDS | |
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Catalyzing Change: Unlocking Impactful Financing at Scale | ||
| 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Enabling conditions to incentivize business and financial practices that create fairer and more resilient societies and economies | UNDP Business and Human Rights, Task Force on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), FAST, FC4S, governments of Liechtenstein and Switzerland | Virtual |
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Global Fiscal Transformation: Building the Future of Revenue Administration and Public Finance Through Advanced Digital Technologies | TBC | Side event 13 |
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Financing the Future: Resilience, Reconstruction, and Innovative financing in Fragile Contexts | IsDB, UNDP, AIIB | |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Public Finance for SDGs: Unlocking Resources for the Future | TBC | Side event 14 |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Financing Resilience: Investing in Early Recovery for Long-Term Resilience | ||
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Public finance for gender equality: A collective commitment | UNDP, NORAD, UN Women, Mexico, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mongolia, Kyrgzstan, Colombia, The Philippines, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Lebanon, Dominican Republic | Side event 3 |
| WEDNESDAY 2 July 2025 | |||
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Tax Inspectors Without Borders: A Decade of Impact and the Road Ahead | TBC | Side event 14 |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am | The timbuktoo Initiative: Building the Future of Engagement with the Private Sector | TBC | Side event 15 |
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | The Road from Seville: Governance as the Key to Progress on Public Finance for Sustainable Development | UNDP, Ford Foundation and Trust, Accountability and Inclusion (TAI) Collaborative | Side event 15 |
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Financing local action: Integrated local financing frameworks | Government of Catalonia; INFF Facility; Local 2030 Coalition | |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Green Financing Platform (GFP) Event | UNDP, SIDA, IsDB, QFFD | Side event 18 |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Enhancing Financial Transparency: Approaches and Best Practices to Combat Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking | GIZ, OSCE, MS: Liechtenstein, Germany | Virtual |
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | From Policy Priorities to Financial Close – Bridging the Pipeline-to-Finance Gap | Italian government and DFI, representatives from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), other financial partners TBD. | Side event 16 |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | From Policy to Impact: Financing ASEAN's Low-Carbon Development through Integrated National Financing Frameworks | TBC | Side event 3 |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Insurance Market Development for a More Resilient Future | TBC | Side event 12 |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Group of Friends of Paragraph 29: From a Global Streamlined Corporate Reporting System to National Implementation Pathways | GRI, UN DESA | Side event 22 |
| THURSDAY 3 July 2025 | |||
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Announcement of the ImpactWorks Alliance: Global Leaders Deliver Sustainable Finance through SDG Management Systems | TBC | Side event 12 |
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | De-risking the Future, Building Resilience through Sustainable Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean | UNDP, AECID, Ecuador, Colombia, EIF, CABEI, Fundacion BBVA | Side event 21 |
