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04/20/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/21/2026 10:42

UN FfD Forum

Take stock - assess the challenges and progress and deepen collaboration
Falling ODA
Redoubling our efforts is important from the Sevilla commitments
Needed to accelerate progress to bring down debt service and advance long overdue reform

UNSG:
Sevilla was a moment of choice at the time when multilateralism was under threat
Opportunity to speed up the
- revamp the machinery of finance
- tackle illicit financial flows

Unchecked devt finance
Reimagine the credit rating agency
FfD is about human progress, it is about allowing kids to go to school….
Social protection and ladders of opportunity for all people
FfD represented a profound progress

UNGA President - Annalena
fertilizers cost
IMF noted the global threat to global crises
some countries can weather the storm better than others
Why it is so important?
Debt sustainability is front and certain
the gap and impact of the gap to achieve the SDGs
The world does not need us. What it needs now is action
This goes to the credibility of our institutions
Propose
The real work

IMF - Nigel Clark
turbulent times
Seeing a shift donor support to financing

Strengthening DRM
Concessional financing should target the most vulnerable
PRGT

WBG
Simultaneous pressure

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