Financing for Development
16 July 2015
While some industrialized countries are pushing the G77 into agreeing to an agenda which for now will not deliver on its promise, there are very hot discussions on many aspects of the proposed solutions to bring our world to a better place by 2030.
By Thursday 16 July we will know if this negotiation is done in good faith and will put people's interests at the centre or will rather be a vehicle for privatization and the continued power politics of big money.
The negotiations take place in plenary sessions and in numerous bi and multi-lateral negotiations. Two roundtables are held every day with high-level speakers from governments, international organizations, business and civil society.
PSI representatives participated in numerous side-events and roundtables including the CSO Forum held on 11-12 July prior to the FFD3. More than 600 civil society organizations and networks from around the world have been engaged in the process leading up to and including the FFD3. The two-day forum produced a joint statement endorsed by all, including PSI, calling for an intergovernmental tax body and raising serious concerns about the unconditional support for public-private partnerships (PPPs).
For more information on PSI's activities at the FFD3 see:
- The CSO FfD Forum Joint Statement
- The side-event report: Tax Justice for Social Justice
- The side-event report: How can the private sector have a positive impact on sustainable development?
- The side event report: Mission Impossible: Development without public services
- PSI General Secretary, Rosa Pavanelli, statement to the Round table on tax justice
- PSI Regional Secretary, Jocelio Drummond, statement to the round table on trade
- The ICRICT event Tax is a matter of life or death
- PSI's work on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- See the statement signed by 150 organisations on private sector participation in the implementation of Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda
- PSI's Briefing on the FfD process
- PSI's Briefing on the SDG and Post 2015 Development Agenda process
- The UN website to find out about the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- The UN website on Financing for Development (FFD3)
- The CSOs for FFD3 website