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Foreword
Nine years ago in Addis Ababa the global community agreed an agenda to enable countries to mobilize and align the financial resources needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Preface
Financing for Development is at a crossroads. This 9th Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development published as we embark on preparations for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD 4) to be held from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Spain paints a sobering picture.
Executive summary
Financing challenges are at the heart of the current sustainable development crisis. Yet financing is also key to turning our fortunes around and getting back on track. The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development next year in Spain provides a unique opportunity to reform financing at all levels to close the gap between aspiration and financing.
Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development 2024
This report finds that the world is facing a sustainable development crisis and that financing challenges are at the heart of the crisis and imperil the SDGs and climate action. It notes that the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in 2025 will be a last chance to correct course if we want to achieve the SDGs by the 2030 deadline. It calls for urgently closing financing gaps through an investment push for closing policy and architecture gaps to make the international financial architecture fit for purpose in a crisis-prone world and for closing credibility gaps translating rhetoric into action to rebuild trust in multilateralism.
Introduction
Every year all five United Nations regional commissions organize regional forums for sustainable development for international exchanges among governments and other stakeholders.
Stories
The agencies and United Nations country teams participating in the Regional Coordination Group on Data and Statistics for Europe and Central Asia and all UNECE programmes provided stories. These 17 stories provide rich insights into the ways in which various regional and country level actions relate to sustainable development outcomes.
Sustainable Development in the UNECE Region: Facing a Headwind in 2024
This publication assesses progress of UNECE countries towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals relying on the data available in the United Nations global SDG indicators database. Stories on specific topics provide a closer look at how various regional and country level actions relate to sustainable development outcomes.
Foreword
The Sustainable Development Goals Summit of 2023 marked an essential high-level commitment to accelerate progress towards Agenda 2030. Agreeing to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Rescue Plan for People and Planet world leaders injected new confidence in the ability to deliver a better future. However with the resounding impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic the continuous war against Ukraine the shocks arising from climate change the high interest rates and still-elevated inflation efforts to advance towards the SDGs are facing strong headwinds both globally and in the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.