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12/17/2025

The year ahead: What’s next for financing for development and international financial architecture reform in 2026?

By Bodo Ellmers

The past two years have felt like a marathon of summits. In particular, the United Nations (UN) Summit of the Future in September 2024 and the International Conference on Financing for Development in Sevilla in July 2025 placed international financial architecture reform firmly at the top of the global agenda.

News - Archive

12/08/2025

Solidarity, equality and sustainability?

A reality check on the G20 after South Africa’s Presidency

12/01/2025

Tax capacity building for the Global North?

Three takeaways from the third round of negotiations on the UN tax convention in Nairobi

10/28/2025

UNCTAD 16 conference in Geneva: The right conference at the wrong time

10/21/2025

Development Assistance Committee launches review as the sector is at a crossroads

09/15/2025

The welfare state is under pressure: What to expect from the World Social Summit in Doha

08/19/2025

Negotiations on UN Tax Convention pick up speed at the UN

Taxing digital services and dispute settlements high on the agenda

08/18/2025

Global Finance Rewired: Our new podcast series on reforming the international finance architecture

Reimagining the rules for a fairer future

07/03/2025

Final day 4 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Reforming global institutions and credit rating systems

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

07/02/2025

DAY 3 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Unresolved trade issues and first steps toward debt reform

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

07/02/2025

DAY 2 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Aid cuts, private finance and uneven commitments

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

07/01/2025

DAY 1 recap of the Fourth Financing for Develeopment (#FfD4) conference: Overcoming the SDG financing gap and proposals on international tax cooperation

Daily wrap-up by Bodo Ellmers

06/23/2025

Compromiso de Sevilla

A digest of key elements of the UN's new global financing framework

06/17/2025

Compromiso de Sevilla

Last-minute deletions on the final stretch to the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development

05/20/2025

World Health Assembly 2025

Ratification of the pandemic treaty postponed again

05/08/2025

Hurdles on the way to Sevilla

Unresolved issues on the FfD4 agenda after PrepCom 4

04/28/2025

2025 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank: Keep calm and carry on?

03/12/2025

FfD4 first draft outcome document released

The flame keeps burning but there is still a long way to go on the Road to Sevilla

03/05/2025

A rocky start for the South African G20 Presidency

Finance Ministers and Public Development Banks convene in Cape Town

02/24/2025

UN Preparatory Committee expands the vision for financing for development

What was new at PrepCom3?

01/22/2025

FfD4 Conference in Sevilla: Highs and lows of the zero draft outcome document

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

12/12/2024

UN Preparatory Committee charts course for 4th Financing for Development Conference

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

11/25/2024

UN launches FfD4 Elements Paper: A Top 10 list of policy reforms

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

11/20/2024

G20 summit in Rio promotes wealth taxes, MDB and UN reform

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

10/28/2024

2024 Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank: Continuing disconnect between IFI and UN agendas

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

09/30/2024

International financial architecture reform at the UN Summit of the Future: Small steps on a long journey

Blog article by Bodo Ellmers

09/25/2024

Change of dates for 10th session of UN-Treaty negotiations announced - civil society protests!

-- Update 10/30/2024: Protest remains unsuccessful. Change of date confirmed, the 10th round of negotiations will take place from 16 to 20 December 2024 --

08/20/2024

Breakthrough in New York: UN Committee paves way for new UN Tax Convention

08/01/2024

End of the Addis Ababa era: UN meeting takes stock of nearly a decade in development finance

07/01/2024

“Enhancing the support capacities to advance the process of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations & other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG), est. by Human Rights Council resolution 26/9"

06/05/2024

Bridgetown Initiative 3.0 released: What´s the news?

04/30/2024

International financial architecture reform at the 2024 Spring Meetings of IMF and World Bank: High ambitions meet piecemeal results

04/29/2024

2024 UN Financing for Development Forum outlines path to FfD4 Conference

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #4

02/29/2024

Reform of the international financial architecture and climate finance: What will the year 2024 bring?

02/05/2024

The UN Pact for the Future

What does it offer for the reform of the international financial architecture?

10/17/2023

Piecemeal reform plan for the World Bank, stalemate at the IMF

Round up of World Bank and IMF Meetings in Marrakesh

10/12/2023

Ahead of the 2023 World Health Summit

Lessons from the Corona pandemic for the future health architecture

08/16/2023

Creating effective institutions for international tax cooperation - New recommendations from the UN Secretary-General

08/07/2023

Entering the second half of the 2030 Agenda with a “Big Push”? Unpacking the United Nations’ SDG Stimulus Package

07/10/2023

The quest for more and better development finance: A week in Paris

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #3

06/13/2023

Reforming the international financial architecture: UN Secretary-General suggests comprehensive reform package

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #2

04/13/2023

United Nations begins negotiations on international tax cooperation

03/01/2023

Last Exit Doha - The Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries is a chance not to be missed

02/23/2023

The Bridgetown Initiative to reform the international financial architecture

On the Road to FfD4 - GPF blog series #1

11/15/2022

Not if, but when - Commentary on the 8th round of negotiations on the UN treaty on business and human rights

By Karolin Seitz

10/24/2022

Statement by Treaty Alliance Germany at the opening of the 8th negotiation round on the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights

07/20/2022

Financing for Development at the 2022 UN HLPF on Sustainable Development

07/18/2022

Feminist foreign policy?

07/09/2022

The G7 Summit in Elmau 2022. Intensified geopolitics overshadow the development agenda

05/20/2022

Of fiscal space and the great finance divide

Analysis and recommendations from the UN Financing for Sustainable Development Report

05/12/2022

2022 EU Investing in Sustainable Development Report

A review by Bodo Ellmers

05/10/2022

UN Financing for Development Forum 2022

02/16/2022

Civil Society Open Letter to the WTO Director General

More than 200 CSOs sign open letter on TRIPS WAIVER

01/28/2022

Global Health & Private Sector Partnerships at the UN: The COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility

10/29/2021

World Health Summit - More Rhetoric than Representation

09/29/2021

Open Letter to G20 Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and the IMF: Civil Society Organizations Call for Principles for Fair Channeling of Special Drawing Rights

08/06/2021

Debriefing of 2021 HLPF side event: “Voluntary National Reports on the 2030 Agenda: What can we learn for a post-pandemic world?”

06/14/2021

Special Drawing Rights: Saving the global economy and bolstering recovery in pandemic times

04/06/2021

Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021: The yawning gap between development finance needs and political ambition

03/08/2021

Corporate accountability: What’s gender got to do with it?

02/25/2021

Barbara Adams (GPF): "The public sector is essential for gender equality & women's rights."

Barbara Adams (GPF) interviewed by IWRAW Asia Pacific

02/15/2021

INVITATION: Virtual Panel Discussion on the FACTI Report

02/12/2021

Women’s Major Group Position Paper on the HLPF Review

02/02/2021

"Where the rubber meets the road"

Survey on CSOs perceptions about UN reform is being launched today

01/18/2021

Open letter to the Biden administration on the need for a pandemic pivot

11/24/2020

The Pandemic Pivot - A Report from the Institute for Policy Studies, The Transnational Institute, and Focus on the Global South

Experts from the frontlines of global policy tackle the implications of COVID-19

11/24/2020

Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2020

Pushing the reset button will not change the game

09/25/2020

Recording: Launching Event of the 2020 Spotlight Report

09/24/2020

World in Progress: Five Years of SDGs - little progress so far

"Deutsche Welle"-Interview with Jens Martens (GPF)

09/24/2020

Five years of SDGs - Little progress so far

09/22/2020

No Business as usual - Patents kill: For the suspension patent protection on all essential medicines

For the production of medical knowledge as a public good

09/11/2020

US Leveraging its money in global and regional fora

07/22/2020

False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

06/04/2020

UN75 Political Declaration: Perspectives on the lynchpin role of UN financing

04/23/2020

Corona: Curse or Opportunity?

03/30/2020

WHO-business joint COVID-19 letter to G-20 raises concerns

03/27/2020

Don’t say nobody warned us

12/20/2019

ODA: Can the players also be scorekeepers?

12/12/2019

Characteristics of the UN General Assembly Second Committee

09/18/2019

When one session closes, another one opens: Looking ahead to the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly

07/23/2019

VNRs, National “Spotlight” Reports and the Future of the HLPF

07/17/2019

Reshaping Governance for Sustainability: 2019 “Spotlight” Report Launched at the UN HLPF

07/03/2019

BS/SDG Index: Can progress on sustainable development be reduced to a single number?

06/19/2019

SDG indicators: Half-filling an empty glass?

The UN Secretary-General’s progress report on the SDGs shows that many will be left behind by 2030, but omits any mention to the responsibilities of the rich.

03/25/2019

Decoupling is the glue that holds “sustainable” and “development” together, material footprint is its indicator

11/08/2018

Misleading road signs in the World Bank’s “SDG Atlas”

01/14/2018

“Market discourse has captured the development agenda to a point that may be incompatible with UN mandates”

01/14/2018

Trading away the SDGs?

01/04/2018

Member States call for commitments to overcome crisis in multilateralism

11/10/2017

Preventing Future Conflicts: The Case of Climate Change

05/27/2017

Which Finances for Whose Development?

04/22/2017

CSW highlights importance of public sector and tax justice

04/20/2017

Harmonization of ECOSOC and the General Assembly for the 2030 Agenda

03/01/2017

The 48th Session of the UN Statistical Commission

A Quantitative UN Commission faces a Qualitative dialogue on the SDG global indicator framework

01/25/2017

In the 2017 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: Civil Society plays key role in voluntary national reviews and coherence

01/12/2017

Turning the Tide on Sustainable Development - The High-Level UN Conference to Support the Implementation of SDG 14

12/20/2016

Observer Status for the International Chamber of Commerce

World's largest business association gets direct voice in UN decision making

12/14/2016

Measuring sustainable development — status update on the global indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals

09/27/2016

The Diplomatic (and Economic) Struggle over Microbes

09/21/2016

Spotlighting the 2030 Agenda — one-year after

08/02/2016

2030 Agenda demands UN reform

04/26/2016

Obstacles to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

04/13/2016

Mind the Gap – from CSW to FfD

04/05/2016

Accountability and transparency of multi-stakeholder partnerships at the UN

03/16/2016

UN Statistical Commission takes up Global Indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

03/11/2016

SDG Indicators: Cross Threading and Classifying

03/11/2016

Obstacles to Women’s Rights and to the SDGs

02/26/2016

What can we expect from the 47th Session of the UN Statistical Commission?

02/18/2016

The UN development system: important, yet inconspicuous to Civil Society

02/15/2016

Technology and SDGs

02/01/2016

Where next for the United Nations Development System?