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Informal technical briefing series on the 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development

  • Date: 4 - 8 March 2019
  • Location: Conference Building (UNHQ)

The Financing for Sustainable Development Office of UN-DESA is organising a series of informal technical briefings on the advance unedited version of the 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development to give Member States the opportunity to better understand the material covered in the report, and to ask questions about it. Representatives from the relevant major institutional stakeholders (World Bank, IMF, WTO, UNCTAD, and UNDP) and other Task Force members will be available at each meeting. The schedule of briefings is as follows:

 

DATE TOPICS WHERE
MONDAY, 
4 MARCH 2019
10AM-12PM
Thematic chapter
Global economic context 
CR.12
TUESDAY, 
5 MARCH 2019
10AM-12PM
Domestic public resources
International development cooperation
CR.8
WEDNESDAY, 
6 MARCH 2019
10AM-12PM
Debt and debt sustainability
Addressing systemic issues
CR.8
THURSDAY, 
7 MARCH 2019
10AM-12PM
Domestic and international private business and finance
Data, monitoring and follow-up
CR.5
FRIDAY,
8 MARCH 2019
10AM-12PM
Science, technology, innovation and capacity-building
International trade as an engine for development
CR.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The advanced unedited draft of the 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report is available on the the page for preporatory materials. For further information please contact Mr. Peter Chowla (email chowla@un.org, tel 1 (212) 963-8618).