AEF at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)

The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) taking place in Seville, Spain from June 30 to July 3, is a once-in-a-decade global summit bringing together world leaders, international organisations, financial institutions, civil society, and the private sector.

FfD4 serves as a strategic platform for AEF to contribute to discussions and impact commitments in thematic areas on the reform of the international financial architecture, mobilising financing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and addressing the growing global financing gap, now estimated at over $4 trillion annually. It also offers a critical opportunity to assess progress since the Monterrey Consensus, the Doha Declaration, and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (2015), which feeds into our priority focus areas.

This moment is a pivotal opportunity for AEF to forge renewed commitments and bold, collective action to build a more inclusive, resilient, and equitable global financial system that truly supports sustainable development, particularly for the world’s most vulnerable countries and reshape Africa-Europe partnerships. Strategic areas within the conference that align with AEF’s work include of tax, domestic resource mobilisation, illicit financial flows, international cooperation, Debt and debt sustainability and Data and monitoring.

AEF’s primary engagement at the FfD4 is through 3 official side events on Intergenerational dialogue, AE/EU Ministerial Dinner dialogue, Tax reform and combatting illicit financial flows, and Africa-Europe cooperation on carbon pricing and markets. These are in collaboration with AUDA-NEPAD, Team Europe Initiative in combatting illicit financial flows and related transnational organised crime in Africa with the EU, Germany, Finland, France and Sweden; UNCTAD, and Tax Justice Network Africa.

• Our Programme Agenda for FfD4