Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference

Reaffirms the importance of staying fully engaged in ensuring proper and effective follow-up to the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus as reaffirmed in the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development; emphasizes that the financing for development follow-up process should constitute a continuum of events; welcomes the new modalities of the special high-level meeting of the Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the UN Conference on Trade and Development; further welcomes the increased interaction and coordination at the staff level with the institutions involved prior to the Council's high-level meeting; encourages all relevant stakeholders to consider organizing seminars, panel discussions and briefings; encourages the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, and especially the Financing for Development Office, to maintain regular interaction at the staff level with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the UN Conference on Trade and Development in the interest of greater coherence, coordination and cooperation, each acting in accordance with its respective intergovernmental mandates.

Adopted without vote, 46th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 2010 (New York, 28 June-23 July 2010) - E/2010/INF/2/Add.1 - 14 August 2010 - p. 131-133.