The Opportunity
The global financial system is broken. As Global South nations navigate stalled development and shrinking fiscal space, the need for a renewed global financing framework has never been more clearer.
Add your voice to the growing calls for global finance reform that enables developing countries to strengthen their economies and secure long-term stability, resilience, and prosperity. It's time to push for deeper awareness and inclusive action on financing for development.
We need all hands on deck to emphasize the urgency of delivering an ambitious, politically feasible outcome document at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Sevilla from June 30 to July 3, 2025.
messages & Resources
A unified, civil society voice is necessary ahead of FfD4. Use these messages in your communications — from stories to blogs to speeches.
Unsustainable Debt Stalls Development
Debt-burdened LICs and LMICs, including SIDs, are being forced to choose between prioritizing unsustainable debt repayments and investing in national development.
A proactive response to surging debt levels will help us move toward a more just global economic system.
Donor governments must adapt their approaches to addressing global debt challenges and give borrowing countries a place at the decision-making table. LMICs must also strengthen transparency and accountability in debt management practices. Complementary, targeted solutions are needed to address debt vulnerability and promote responsible borrowing and lending.
SDRs: A Sustainable Pathway to Capital Increases
SDRs are an international reserve asset. An efficient, low-cost, non-distortionary tool, SDRs can help boost developing countries’ international reserves and liquidity.
SDRs can play a central role in global financing reform by extending a safety net to developing countries during times of economic duress.
When SDRs are rechanneled to LICs and LMICs, they gain greater access to sufficient, quality financing as an alternative to sovereign borrowing.
Donor governments should commit to sustainable pathways for capital increases, including through the rechanneling of SDRs by MDBs in countries that are able to do so.
Domestic Resource Mobilization
To effectively finance sustainable development, we must strengthen subnational finance and address barriers to accessing low-cost, long-term financing.
Sustained, strategic investment in economic stability, social protection, and self-sufficiency within LICs and LMICs will enable effective domestic resource mobilization.
Donor governments and developing countries must seize this opportunity to create a more stable, enabling environment for investments through promoting accountability and efficiency in domestic resource mobilization.
Resources & TOOLS
Explore resources from global partners to learn more about FfD4 and other advocacy efforts.
- Official FfD4 Website (UN DESA)
- Sevilla Platform for Action (UN DESA)
- Our Future Agenda Quarterly: Rewriting the Rules of Finance — Before It's Too Late (Our Future Agenda)
- Innovative Financing for Development (Our Future Agenda)
- The Fiscal Space (Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative)
- The Future of Financing for Development: What Role for the UN? (Global Policy Forum)
- Africa: A Broken Promise. Why Foreign Aid Needs a Democratic Reset (AllAfrica Foundation)
- Civil Society Calls for FfD4 to Revive ‘Spirit of Monterrey’ and Reassert UN’s Role in Global Economic Governance (Bretton Woods Project)
- Drowning in Debt (Global Governance Reimagined)
Outcomes from the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development
- Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development delivers renewed hope and action for sustainable development (UN DESA Press Release)
- Adopted FfD4 Outcome Document (UN DESA)
- With sustainable development under threat, Sevilla summit rekindles hope and unity (UN News)
Keeping Financing Commitments
Explore resources from the CSO and financing reform community on why international financial reform matters and how to make it happen.
- Foreign aid is in freefall – but wealthy nations can still help fill widening finance gaps (The Telegraph)
- The World Bank, at 80, and the True Goals of Multilateral Cooperation and Global Development (Inter Press Service)
- Africa: A Broken Promise - Why Foreign Aid Needs a Democratic Reset (AllAfrica)
CSO Mobilizations
Join CSOs in calling for specific reforms. Together, we can leverage our networks to reach decision makers at the local and international level.
- Turn Debt Into Hope (Caritas)
- 200+ CSOs and individuals urge European leaders to commit to 'transformative agenda' at FfD4 (Eurodad)
- We stand with Billions, not Billionaires - Cancel the Debt, Change the System (Economic Justice Mobilization)
- Era of Justice (Eurodad)
Join Our Call ON social media
These sample posts can be used on all social media platforms, and we welcome you to edit them in your own voice. Feel free to link your posts out to resources that are most appropriate for your organization. For suggestions, please refer to this toolkit's Resources & Tools section. Please remember to use #FinanceAFairFuture so we can engage with your posts and help them go even further.
Post 1
The global financing system is failing the people it was meant to serve.
Decades of progress are at risk.
There is a better path forward, and it starts at #FfD4: bit.ly/436YHGg
#FinanceAFairFuture
Post 2
Donor governments:
This is not the time to step back from global cooperation.
It is time to end financial inequities.
Structural reforms and inclusive economic governance should be a priority. Every country, rich and poor, should have a voice.
Make it happen at #FfD4.
#FinanceAFairFuture
Post 3
For global stability, resilience, and prosperity.
International financial reform is in every country’s best interest.
We need all hands on deck at #FfD4.
Join our call to #FinanceAFairFuture that benefits everyone, everywhere.
Post 4 (Carousel)
From crushing debt to dwindling budgets for basic needs, developing countries are being left behind.
At #FfD4, donor governments must seize the opportunity to right historical wrongs and finally answer the longstanding calls for finance reforms.
Swipe to see where urgent commitment and action are most needed in Sevilla this June.
#FinanceAFairFuture
Digital Essentials
Follow these accounts and hashtags to stay up to date on conversations around FfD4.
Key Accounts (In order of: Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn)
- United Nations: @UN | @unitednations | @UnitedNations | @United Nations
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA): @UNDESA | @joinundesa | @United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- United Nations Foundation: @unfoundation | @unfoundation | @unitednationsfoundation | @United Nations Foundation
- UN SDG Action Campaign: @SDGAction | @sdgaction | @SDGaction | @UN SDG Action Campaign
Hashtags
- #FfD4 (official UN DESA hashtag)
- #FinanceAFairFuture
- #FinancingOurFuture
Credits:
Created with images by (1) UN Photo/Cia Pak (2) United Nations Foundation/Diane Bondareff (3) UN Photo