Implementing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda: the 2017 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up

The Second Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) forum on financing for development follow-up (FfD forum) was held from 22 to 25 May 2017 in New York. The forum’s extensive programme included: a ministerial segment featuring the special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), general debate and ministerial roundtables; and an expert segment organized around a series of round tables and panel discussions on themes spanning the entire scope of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (Addis Agenda). The FfD forum resulted in intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations (included in E/FFDF/2017/3) which provided input to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. The 26-paragraph outcome document reaffirms key elements of the Addis Agenda, and contains new commitments on policies and actions to ensure the full and timely delivery of the means of implementation of the SDGs. The 2017 report of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development provided an important input to the negotiations of the outcome document and to the discussions at the FfD forum itself.
Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Opening of the ECOSOC forum on financing for development follow-up -- Ministerial Segment -- 3. Statements by institutional stakeholders -- 4. Keynote presentations -- 5. Adoption of the intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations -- 6. General debate -- 7. . Interactive dialogue with intergovernmental bodies of major institutional stakeholders -- 8. Ministerial roundtables -- Expert segment -- 9. Panel discussion: 2017 report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development -- 10. Thematic round tables -- 11. Expert discussions -- 12. Stakeholder dialogue -- 13. Outcomes of the fora mandated by the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and updates on key voluntary initiatives launched at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development -- 14. Closing of the ECOSOC forum on financing for development follow-up -- Annex 1. Programme of the 2017 ECOSOC forum on financing for development follow-up -- Annex 2. Opening remarks by the President of ECOSOC -- Annex 3. Opening address by the Deputy Secretary-General -- Annex 4. Intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations of the ECOSOC forum on financing for development follow-up -- Annex 5. Statements delivered after the adoption of the intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations -- Annex 6. Closing remarks by the President of ECOSOC -- Annex 7. Summaries of side events.

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