About FFD4 | FFD4

The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), is scheduled to take place from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre, Spain.

FFD4 aspires to build a renewed global financing framework that will unlock greater volumes of capital at a lower cost. In Sevilla, and through a renewed global financing framework, leaders are taking action to deliver an SDG investment push and to reform the international financial architecture to enable the transformative change that the world urgently needs.

Message from the Secretary-General of the UN
for the First Preparatory Committee Session for FFD4

President of Government of Spain
Announces Location of FFD4 Conference

View the document below to learn more about Financing for Development and FFD4

Preparatory Process for FFD4

Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee

General Assembly resolution 78/231 established an intergovernmental Preparatory Committee to make the organizational, procedural and substantive preparations for the Conference, with a Bureau consisting of three members from each regional group.  

The Committee adopted the annotated provisional agenda of its work and a draft decision on further modalities of the Conference during the organizational session.  

Subsequent sessions of the Preparatory Committee will be held as follows: 

First session: Addis Ababa  from 22 to 26 July 2024
Second session: New York from 3-6 December 2024
Third session: New York  from 10-14 February 2025
Fourth session: New York from 30 April - 1 May 2025

A one-day intersessional Multistakeholder Hearing was convened in New York on 28 October 2024, as part of the preparatory process for the Conference. 

The Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee is Co-Chaired by the following Permanent Representatives of the Committee:

H.E. Mr. Zéphyrin Maniratanga, Permanent Representative of Burundi to the UN
H.E. Mr. Rui Vinhas, Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN

On 19 June 2024, the Co-Chairs of the FFD4 Preparatory Committee announced that Mexico, Nepal, Norway, and Zambia would co-facilitate the negotiations of the FFD4 outcome document.

The Preparatory Committee is integrated from the representatives of the following countries: 

African States: South Africa
Asia-Pacific States: China, Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan serve as a Vice-Chairs on a rotational basis.  
Eastern European States: Poland and the Russian Federation.
Latin American and Caribbean States: Brazil and Colombia
Western European and other States: Canada