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   FFD4 provides a key platform to tackle financing challenges and align existing initiatives through a common roadmap, without creating new mechanisms. By uniting governments, international organizations, and stakeholders, the initiative aims to advance health for all and ensure no one is left behind. FFD4 provides a key platform to tackle financing challenges and align existing initiatives through a common roadmap, without creating new mechanisms. By uniting governments, international organizations, and stakeholders, the initiative aims to advance health for all and ensure no one is left behind. Speakers: Pedro Sánchez, President of the Government of Spain Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization Sania Nishtar, CEO, Gavi Peter Sands, Executive Director, Global Fund Related Sites and Documents:  More Info . Watch SPA Initiative Announcement: Towards a Renewed Global Health Ecosystem - 4th International Conference on Financing for Develop...

This Sevilla Platform for Action announcement will cover two initiatives - Global Hub for Debt Swaps for Development and Debt Pause Clause Alliance. Global Hub for Debt Swaps for Development: This initiative aims to establish a Global Hub for Debt Swaps to improve the design and implementation of debt swaps, and increase potential for scale up. The Alliance aims to recognize that contractual debt pause clauses can play a key role in bolstering the financial resilience of developing countries and is endeavoring to encourage uptake by all creditors, across both official and private debt, among other actions. Speakers: Carlos Cuerpo, Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Spain Ryan Straughn, Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Barbados Baroness Chapman, Minister of State for International Development, Latin America and Caribbean, UK Ilan Goldfajn, President, Inter-American Development Bank Nadia Calviño, President, European Investment Bank Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European...

Two years after the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact (June 23-24, 2023) which established the Pact for Prosperity People and the Planet (4P), the international community will convene for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD-4) , taking place in Seville from June 30 to July 3, 2025. Against a challenging backdrop: rising geopolitical tensions, mounting pressure on multilateral cooperation, financial constraints facing traditional development co-operation providers, and resulting cuts in funding for international solidarity and the fight against the triple global crisis, the international community is meeting in Sevilla to define new principles for development financing. Related Sites and Documents:  More Info  and  Concept Note . Watch the 4P High-level meeting: a positive multilateralism approach for results-oriented solutions - 4th International Conference on Financing for Development FFD4 (Sevilla, Spain)