4th International Conference on Financing for Development - all UNDP events

Event Details

DATE

30 June 2025 -
03 July 2025

TYPE

Hybrid

LOCATION

Sevilla, Spain

A full list of UNDP-led and -supported side events in the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development in Sevilla:

Time CET	Title	Co-hosts	Synopsis	Venue
MONDAY 30 June 2025
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Innovative Finance for Nature: Building Markets for Landscape Restoration Investments	UNCDF, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa	This event will highlight innovative and sustainable financing mechanisms for nature and how to build markets for landscape restoration investments. It will explore how de-risking strategies, blended finance, and private investments	Side event 19
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Integrated National Financing Frameworks Facility: Launch of a Seville Impact Initiative	Government of Spain, Government of Nigeria, INFF Facility (UNDP, UNDESA, UNICEF, OECD, EU, Italy, Spain, Sweden)	The side event will launch the new phase of the INFF Facility as a scaled vehicle for supporting Member States, announce new partnerships and a strengthened governance structure.	Side event 17
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Building Forward in Syria: Financing Recovery and Resilience for a Sustainable Future	Ministry of Finance, Syrian Arab Republic	This event will highlight the challenges of accessing development finance in conflict-affected and sanctioned contexts, and explore innovative financing mechanisms for recovery, including remittances, blended finance and de-risking mechanisms.	Side event 9
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Financing Climate and Nature for Prosperity: Aligning NDCs, Biodiversity, and Development Agendas	Germany, Egypt, Brazil, Panama, Belgium, Philippines	This side event will present the economic case for increased synergies between climate and biodiversity policies, target-setting, and integrated financing, sharing experiences and practical tools for making NDCs and NBSAPs investment-ready.	Side event 5
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Country-driven approaches to financing climate action and sustainable development and climate action	Government of Egypt - (Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation), South African Presidential Climate Commission, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, UNDP, IDFC/Finance in Common (AFD), INFF Facility (UNDP, UNDESA, UNICEF, OECD)	This side event will launch a High-Level Initiative that reinforces country leadership as a central driving force of financing for development, climate, nature and social priorities across the SDGs, Paris Agreement, GBF and other agendas.	Side event 17
TUESDAY 1 July 2025
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Public Finance for SDGs: Unlocking Resources for the Future		By viewing fiscal instruments not in isolation but as an integrated toolkit, countries can better align their financial resources toward achieving climate action, gender equality, poverty reduction, and other key SDG targets.	Side event 14
8:30 am -10:00 am	Innovative Financing for Sustainable Development: Addressing Gaps and Scaling Solutions	Qatar Fund for Development	This session contributes to FFD4’s emphasis on reforming the global financial system by demonstrating how hybrid capital models, rooted in equity, social guarantees and concessionally can make development finance more inclusive and effective, especially in LDCs.	Side event 24
8:30 am - 10:00 am	The role of philanthropy as a catalyst for multistakeholder partnerships for sustainable development finance at the country level.	WINGS, UNDP, LaCaixa Foundation, SpainNAB, the National Advisory Board for Impact Investment	This event will set the scene for multi-stakeholder dialogue among governments, development agencies and philanthropic leaders discuss concrete examples of cross-sector collaboration such as country platforms to drive sustainable and long-term growth.	Side event 8
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Scaling up Mineral Wealth Management and Promoting Innovative AgriTech Farms	Government of Sierra Leone, Government of Liberia	The Side Event will allow Sierra Leone to engage global experts on sovereign wealth creation and gather lessons and experiences from successful countries on the design, governance structures and management of the funds.	Side event 13
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Optimizing use and support for debt for development swaps in view of accelerating progress in the implementation of the SDGs	Portugal, Cabo Verde, UNDP	This session aims to demonstrate how debt-for-development swaps effectively free up fiscal resources to support SDG advancement through sector focused specific investments (e.g. nature, health, energy), identifying advantages and disadvantages.	Side event 11
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Global Fiscal Transformation: Building the Future of Revenue Administration and Public Finance Through Advanced Digital Technologies		This event will explore how stronger coordination, shared infrastructure, AI-ready data and interoperable systems can support more coherent fiscal planning, supporting the identification of flexible models that can be adapted to national needs.	Side event 13
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Investing in Data, Advancing Development	Colombia, Norway, UNCTAD, UN - ECLAC, UNODC, UNDP		Side event 15
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, Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), FAST, FC4S, Governments of Switzerland	This policy workshop aims to promote dialogue on the importance for the private sector of identifying, managing and communicating inequality and social-related risks - and the enabling conditions that governments can put in place to facilitate this.	Virtual: Registration link
2:30 pm - 12:00 pm	From Recovery to Resilience: Unlocking Financing in a World of Rising Risks	Government of Spain	This side event explores innovative approaches to mobilize sustainable finance that strengthens economic resilience, de-risks investment, and supports long-term development in the face of escalating global challenges.	Side event 22
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Launching the Gambia's National Financing Frameworks and Development Finance Assessment	Government of The Gambia	This event will highlight The Gambia’s commitment to leveraging the INFF, demonstrating coherence across planning, budgeting, and financing for SDG acceleration. It presents the DFA and INFS as foundational tools for financing The Gambia’s RF-NDP.	Side event 22
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Financing Resilience: Investing in Early Recovery for Long-Term Resilience	UNCDF, German Investment Bank (KFW), European Investment Bank (EIB), Islamic Development Bank	This High-Level Side Event will feature the announcement of a new joint platform the UNDP–UNCDF Early Recovery and Resilience Fund (ERRF), designed to catalyze timely and flexible financing for early recovery and local resilience in fragile and crisis-affected contexts.	Side event 4
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Public finance for gender equality: A collective commitment	UNDP, NORAD, UN Women, Colombia, The Philippines, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Mexico	This event generates momentum and builds an alliance with concrete follow up actions after FFD4 with key countries committed to the Public Finance for Gender Equality Pact. Member countries will express their commitments and future actions to advance this agenda.	Side event 3
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Building Back Better: Financing Sustainable Recovery and Resilience in the State of Palestine	Government of Palestine	This event will provide a platform to discuss financing instruments and governance mechanisms for recovery, reconstruction, and resilience in the State of Palestine, addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with mobilizing financial resources.	Side event 5
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Harnessing Insurance Industry Capabilities for Development	Insurance Development Forum	This session will spotlight actions to deepen the insurance industry’s contribution to resilience as a foundation for sustainable development, highlighting opportunities for insurance projects to protect countries’ development gains while enabling future SDG investments.	Side event 12
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Call for Global Partnership to mobilizing and providing climate financing to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, leaving no one and no country behind	Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Cameroon, the Ministry of Environment, UNDP Cameroon		Side event 19
WEDNESDAY 2 July 2025
8:30 am - 10:00 am	Tax Inspectors Without Borders: A Decade of Impact and the Road Ahead	OECD	This side event will reflect on ten years of strengthening domestic resource mobilization through hands-on tax audit support and explore future opportunities to deepen its impact in advancing fair and effective tax systems for sustainable development.	Side event 14
8:30 am - 10:00 am	The timbuktoo Initiative: Building the Future of Engagement with the Private Sector		This event will build upon previous engagements and unite governments, NGOs, entrepreneurs and investors both impact and return-driven by translating in vestment into Africa’s largest and most comprehensive startup support system.	Side event 15
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	New approaches for a renewed international cooperation: ‘Coalition of the willing on Beyond GDP’	OECD, The Government of Spain, United Nations, UNCTAD, AUDA-NEPAD, SEGIB, CAF	Bringing together participants from across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and OECD countries, this event will propose a global alliance of countries and partners committed to advancing the integration of more comprehensive development considerations into policy and financing practices.	Side event 19
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Data as Dialogue: Unlocking Interoperability for Financing Sustainable Development	Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Nigeria, Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australia, Lowy Institute	In promoting transparency of financial flows on shared open data standards, this event will foster inclusive partnerships, and mutual accountability in financing for sustainable development - reaffirming IATI as a recognized platform for financial data interoperability across the renewed financing framework.	Side event 10
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Debt Solutions for Resilience and Reform: Financing the 2030 Agenda in Africa and Beyond	Government of Egypt Ministry of Finance, UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda	This event aims to help shape the FFD4 agenda by centering the debt-development nexus, showcasing regional leadership from Africa and the Islamic world, and offering concrete proposals that blend fiscal sustainability with SDG acceleration.	Side event 6
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	The Road from Seville: Governance as the Key to Progress on Public Finance for Sustainable Development	Trust, Accountability and Inclusion (TAI) Collaborative, Ford Foundation	The event will highlight governance related FfD4 commitment areas focused on domestic public resources and critically assess how progress can be accelerated in these areas – allow a deep dive into UNDP and partners’ governance offers as key to unlocking progress on FFD4 commitments.	Side event 15
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	From Policy Priorities to Financial Close – Bridging the Pipeline-to-Finance Gap	Government of Italy	This event explores the practical hurdles that prevent investment-ready projects from securing capital, and proposes solutions rooted in national development goals, risk-adjusted finance, and partnership-driven project development.	Side event 16
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	National Integrated Financing Strategy: Issues and Challenges for Sustainable Structural Transformation	Government of Cameroon Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Ministry of Finance	This side event will create a framework for strategic dialogue between Cameroonian public actors, European donors, international financial institutions, technical partners, the diaspora and philanthropists for the financing of transformative national development initiatives.	Side event 6
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Unlocking Green Capital for Sustainable Development in the Arab States: the Green Financing Platform (GFP)	Islamic Development Bank, Arab Gulf Development Porgramme	The official launch the Green Financing Platform (GFP) will be a call to align the GFP with global reform of the international financial architecture and INFFs, particularly in support of middle-income and vulnerable countries, and announcing new partnerships and funding windows.	Side event 18
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Reinforcing evidence-based reporting at global level on localizing finance for sustainable development	United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, United Nations Development Program, South Africa, Municipality of Málaga, Global Fund for Cities Development		Side event 14
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	From Policy to Impact: Financing ASEAN's Low-Carbon Development through Integrated National Financing Frameworks	Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, ASEAN, INFF Facility	This event will demonstrate how INFFs can serve as coordinating platforms to address complex financing challenges ASEAN faces in low-carbon development, including the rising cost of capital and fragmented regulatory environments.	Side event 3
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Insurance Market Development for a More Resilient Future		This event will spotlight actions to deepen the risk management industry’s contribution to sustainable development, including opportunities for insurance projects to protect countries’ economic and social development gains while enabling future investments towards the SDGs.	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	Stichting Global Reporting Initiative, UN DESA	The launch of the "Group of Friends of Paragraph 29" at this side event will create a dedicated coalition of Member States committed to implementing the provisions of Paragraph 29, and specifically 29(e).	Side event 22
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Financing for peace: Unlocking investment for climate security and land restoration in fragile and conflict-affected contexts	United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Global Mechanism, United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UN DPPA),	This event aims to shift the narrative on fragility: less as an obstacle to investing and more as a context in which well-designed, conflict-sensitive and targeted financial engagement can have positive outcomes for peacebuilding, environmental resilience and sustainable development.	Side event 4
THURSDAY 3 July 2025
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Announcement of the ImpactWorks Alliance: Global Leaders Deliver Sustainable Finance through SDG Management Systems	International Standards Organization (ISO)	This event will launch the ImpactWorks Alliance, which will align global actors around structured, credible, and actionable sustainability management approaches-contributing to the financial architecture needed for a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient future.	Side event 12
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	De-risking the Future, Building Resilience through Sustainable Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean	Governments of Colombia and Ecuador, European Investment Bank (EIB), CABEI, Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI)	This event will demonstrate how multilateral funds, private investors, development banks, and financial institutions can enhance cooperation to unlock long-term capital for development through tools like blended finance, thematic bonds, digital finance.	Side event 21
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Leveraging Social Investments: Financing for Jobs & Social Protection	Governments of France and Uzbekistan, ILO, WFP, FAO, UNICEF, UN-WOMEN, World Bank, Joint SDG Fund	This side event will centre on the question of how governments can address the challenges of financing the SDGs, particularly in mobilizing domestic and international public and private resources, for jobs and social protection in support of just transitions.	Side event 3