Follow-Up to and Implementation of the Outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 18 Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development, published in 2018.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2017–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/129

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/129	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development	1,773	23%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/199	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development	4,018	79%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/231	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development	4,397	65%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/156	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development	3,591	61%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/198	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development	2,766	79%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

9 reports · 2018–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/336	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/129
2025	A/80/387	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/199
2024	A/79/285	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/231
2023	A/78/190	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/156
2022	A/77/223	Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/198

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences Consultations Development Assistance Development Finance International Cooperation

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes the need to work towards the full and timely implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development;³

³Resolution 69/313, annex.

Takes note with appreciation of the first substantive report of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development,⁴ and notes that progress can be reported in all seven action areas of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, while acknowledging that many implementation gaps remain;

⁴Financing for Development: Progress and Prospects (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.17.I.5).

Welcomes the intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations of the 2017 Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up,2 urges their full, effective and timely implementation, and looks forward to staying engaged so as to assess progress, identify obstacles and challenges in the implementation of the financing for development outcomes and the delivery of the means of implementation, promote the sharing of lessons learned from experiences at the national and regional levels, address new and emerging topics of relevance to the implementation of this agenda as the need arises and provide policy recommendations for action by the international community in substantive intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations at the 2018 forum;

Looks forward to the summary by the President of the Economic and Social Council of the 2018 Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up;

Invites the President of the Economic and Social Council to begin early planning of the 2018 Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up;

Recalls that decisions relating to the Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up are to be contained within the forum’s intergovernmentally agreed conclusions and recommendations;

Welcomes the holding of the 2017 Global Infrastructure Forum in Washington, D.C., on 22 April 2017, also welcomes its outcome statement, and reiterates that the Forum is mandated to identify and address infrastructure and capacity gaps in developing countries, particularly in the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and African countries;

Also welcomes the progress made in operationalizing the three components of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism and the holding of the annual multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, which is important, inter alia, in helping to facilitate the development, transfer and dissemination of relevant technologies for the Goals, looks forward to the establishment of the online platform as part of the Mechanism, and welcomes the progress made in operationalizing the technology bank for the least developed countries;

Takes note with appreciation of the convening of the second annual multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals in New York on 15 and 16 May 2017, whose Co-Chairs’ summary⁵ served as an input to the high-level political forum on sustainable development, and in this regard requests the President of the General Assembly to convene briefings by the Co-Chairs of the multi-stakeholder forum for Member States, which shall take place no later than February 2018, on the recommendations contained in the Co-Chairs’ summary with regard to the next steps for the multi-stakeholder forum;

⁵See E/HLPF/2017/4.

Recognizes that the Addis Ababa Action Agenda provides a global framework for financing sustainable development and is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1 supports and complements it and helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with concrete policies and actions, which relate to domestic public resources, domestic and international private business and finance, international development cooperation, international trade as an engine for development, debt and debt sustainability, addressing systemic issues and science, technology, innovation and capacity-building, and data, monitoring and follow-up;

Requests the Secretary-General, fully recognizing the need to enhance coordination, promote the efficiency of United Nations processes and avoid duplication and overlapping of discussions, to address a joint meeting of the Second Committee and the Economic and Social Council, informing them of and discussing the issues to be addressed in the thematic chapter of the 2019 and 2020 reports of the Inter-Agency Task Force, and to summarize those discussions by producing a report, within existing resources, to guide the Inter-Agency Task Force on the thematic issues to be covered in those reports, emphasizing that the annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up is dedicated to discussing in depth the follow-up and review of the financing for development outcomes and the means of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session the item entitled “Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development”, unless otherwise agreed.

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