Join IATI at FfD4: Enhancing the Transparency of Financing for Development

  • June 20, 2025

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) will be actively participating in the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Sevilla, Spain.

Building on the momentum of IATI’s inclusion in the Compromiso de Sevilla for Action, the initiative will be championing global collaboration on open data to drive the effectiveness of sustainable development finance.

Join IATI’s co-hosted side event: Data as Dialogue

FFD4 IATI Side event

IATI will be co-hosting a side-event with the governments of Australia, Germany, and Nigeria and the Lowy Institute. Attendees of FFD4 are encouraged to join us:

Data as Dialogue: Unlocking Interoperability for Financing Sustainable Development

  • 📅 Wednesday 3 July, TBC
  • 🕐 12:30–14:00
  • 📍 Side Event Room 10, FIBES Conference Centre
  • 🔗 Event page

In an era of fragmented financing and growing complexity in global development cooperation, open and interoperable data is no longer a technical aspiration—it is a practical necessity. This session will bring together global leaders to explore how data systems can be better connected, used, and scaled to meet the ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals.

What to Expect:

  • High-level speakers from co-hosts on the role of open data in shaping the future of development cooperation.

  • Practical country experiences on publishing and using IATI data for national planning, budgeting, and reporting.

  • Insights into how interoperability improves aid data available for coordination, portfolio management, and trust across diverse actors in countries and regions.

  • A discussion on how to scale inclusive, low-burden, high-value data systems that serve the real needs of governments, donors, and communities.

  • A collective call to action to strengthen capacity, scale open standards, and ensure data leads to tangible results and development effectiveness.

IATI will highlight how open data can strengthen South-South cooperation and how traditional partners can support emerging donors in building effective, credible reporting systems.

Speaking on Transparency and Emerging Donors

IATI will join the panel of another side-event co-hosted by the Lowy Institute, which explores the evolving role of emerging development partners—particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. The discussion will focus on the importance of transparency, data predictability, and aligned reporting standards.

Side Event: Emerging Donors in Action – Tracking, Boosting, and Shaping Development

📅 Wednesday, 2 July 🕐 14:30–16:00📍 Side Event Room 23, FIBES Conference Centre 🔗Event link

At this event, IATI will highlight how open data can strengthen South-South cooperation and how traditional partners can support emerging donors in building effective, credible reporting systems.

Sevilla Platform for Action Initiatives

IATI is proud to endorse the Sevilla Platform for Action (SPA) through three voluntary initiatives that will be launched at FFD4.

Sevilla Platform for Action

These initiatives aim to mobilise alliances to implement specific actions of the Compromiso de Sevilla for Action, and their implementation will form part of the Financing for Development follow-up process:

  • FfD4 and the Future of Data: Strengthening Systems for Sustainable Financing

Led by Colombia, Norway, and the UK—with IATI and a broad coalition—this initiative will promote more efficient, AI-ready data systems, better data financing, and stronger political leadership. The goal is to align data investments with national priorities and support countries to mobilise resources, manage debt and deliver on the FfD4 agenda.

  • The 2030 Pact for Effective Development Co-operation

Facilitated through the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC), this initiative aims to reinvigorate global commitments to development effectiveness through an ambitious new Pact. It will launch a political and technical process through global debates, regional learning labs, and the co-creation of a new narrative for development cooperation. IATI’s contribution will help inform efforts to strengthen the key development principle of transparency and mutual accountability.

  • Bridging Data Systems for Financing for Development

This joint initiative—led by the International Forum on TOSSD, UNCTAD, the Ibero-American General Secretariat, IATI, the OECD, the UN CEB Secretariat, BIOFIN (hosted by UNDP), and OCHA—aims to enhance interoperability between international reporting systems on development cooperation. It aims to ease reporting burdens through pilots and system upgrades, contributing to more coherent data ecosystems. This initiative directly supports the FfD4 outcome’s call for more coherent data ecosystems and will contribute to tracking progress across the Sevilla Platform for Action.

All three initiatives will be presented at the Sevilla Platform for Action press-facing space at the conference venue and will be registered on the FfD4 online platform.

Stay Connected with IATI in Sevilla

We’re looking forward to sharing our activities at FfD4—stay updated via our social channels: LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Facebook, BlueSky. If your organisation is attending FfD4 and would like to connect with IATI or meet our Executive Director, Yemesrach Assefa Workie, please email [email protected].