2026 Financing for Development Forum Side-Event: Revitalising development effectiveness

FfD 2026 Side-Event

Revitalising Development Effectiveness: from Sevilla Commitment to Practice

• 📅 Wednesday 22 April 2026
• 🕒 15:00–16:30 EST
• 🤝 Financing for Development Dialogues (Fin4Dev Dialogues), FfD Forum 2026
• 📍 Conference Room 8 (CR-8), General Assembly Building, UN Headquarters, New York
• 📺Watch live on UN Web TV: https://bit.ly/ffd-revitalising-development

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This Fin4Dev Dialogue will take place in the margins of the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development Follow-up (FfD Forum). This year’s Forum focuses on mobilising momentum and advancing concrete solutions following the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4).

At FfD4, held in Sevilla in 2025, UN Member States adopted the Sevilla Commitment to address the financing gap for sustainable development and strengthen international development cooperation.

Renewed Commitment on development effectiveness

The Sevilla Commitment recognises that development cooperation is not delivering as effectively as it should. Fragmentation, duplication, and rising reporting demands are increasing transaction costs and limiting impact, particularly in countries facing complex and compounding challenges.

In response, Chapter C of the Sevilla Commitment — International Development Cooperation and Development Effectiveness — sets out a renewed political commitment to revitalise the development effectiveness agenda and strengthen development cooperation systems at both national and global levels.

Dialogue: from Sevilla to implementation

Co-hosted by the Government of Nigeria, this session will examine how commitments on development effectiveness can be implemented in practice. This Fin4Dev Dialogue directly responds to the Sevilla Commitment by bringing together the key global initiatives and accountability frameworks it references:

• Development Cooperation Forum (DCF)
• Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC)
• International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
• International Forum on Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD)
• OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)

By bringing these actors together in a single dialogue, the event supports the Sevilla Commitment’s call to foster synergies across existing mechanisms and forums through the revitalised Development Cooperation Forum (paragraph 40(d)).

This dialogue will provide a space to explore how stronger coordination, knowledge-sharing and interoperability can contribute to improving development effectiveness in practice.

Speakers

• Carsten Staur, Chair, Development Assistance Committee, OECD
• Ms. Eléa Wermelinger, Deputy Head of Department for International Development, Ministry for Europe and Foreign affairs, France
• Ms. Annika Otterstedt, Assistant Director General, Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sweden) and Co-Chair, Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC)
• Shari Spiegel, Director, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
• Julia Benn, Head of Secretariat, International Forum on Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD)
• Yemesrach A. Workie, Executive Director, International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
• Asor Henry Nkang, Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Government of Nigeria

Objectives

This Fin4Dev Dialogue will:

• Initiate a forward-looking discussion on how to revitalise the development effectiveness agenda, including through the Development Cooperation Forum (DCF), by improving collaboration across global initiatives and strengthening coherence across global and national processes.
• Share updates on related initiatives under the Sevilla Platform for Action since lanched at FfD4. They include the 2030 Pact for Effective Development Co-operation, the Bridging Data Systems for Financing for Development initiative.
• Explore, from the perspective of partner countries, what practical improvements are needed to strengthen development effectiveness in practice, including better alignment across global initiatives, improved transparency and reduced reporting burdens.

IATI at FfD Forum 2026

IATI is proud to actively participate in the Financing for Development Dialogues at the FfD Forum 2026. This builds on IATI’s engagement at FfD4 in Sevilla, where the initiative was recognised in the Sevilla Commitment for its role in fostering transparency in international development cooperation.

During the dialogue, IATI will share progress on its contribution to the Sevilla Platform for Action, including efforts to advance transparency and interoperability in development finance.