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Cross-cutting issues
This section covers those initiatives and issues that build on the synergies of the SDGs and address critical gaps in their delivery, including gender equality and infrastructure finance.
Delivering social protection and essential public services
Ending hunger and malnutrition
Closing the infrastructure gap
Promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization
Generating full and productive employment for all
Protecting ecosystems
Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies
Gender equality
Investing in children and youth
Addressing the diverse needs and challenges faced by countries in special situations
Global partnership
Domestic public resources
This action area covers the quantity and quality of domestic resource mobilization such as taxation, budgeting of resources, and use of resources, along with accountability and SDG alignment.
Domestic resource mobilization and taxation
Tax administration
Tax policy effectiveness and transparency
Tobacco taxation
Illicit financial flows
Return of stolen assets
International tax cooperation overview
International efforts to combat tax avoidance and evasion
Combatting money laundering/terrorist financing
Tax treaties, voluntary agreements and tax incentives
Capacity building for domestic revenue mobilisation
National control mechanisms, transparency, non-discrimination and procurement
Fossil fuel subsidies
Extractives and resources sector
National development banks
Subnational urban development/planning, subnational financing
Domestic and international private business and finance
This action area covers private business activity and investment, its alignment with sustainable development, and the enabling environment and regulatory framework.
Investment trends
The investment climate
Achieving financial inclusion
Facilitating the flow of remittances
Developing domestic capital markets
Long-term and sustainable financial investment
Encouraging quality direct investments
Private sector efforts and initiatives on environmental, social and governance factors
Encouraging philanthropic engagement that is transparent and accountable
Incentivizing investment in underfunded areas
International development cooperation
This action area covers official development assistance, South-South Cooperation and other international public finance, including their quality and effectiveness.
Official development assistance
South-South and triangular cooperation
Multilateral development banks
Other official flows and catalysing additional resources
Country allocation, levels of concessionality and graduation issues
Development effectiveness
Climate finance, disaster risk and environmental resilience
Humanitarian finance and peacebuilding
Innovative development finance
Partnerships in health
Partnerships in education
International cooperation and capacity building
International trade as an engine for development
This action area covers measures to strengthen the multilateral trading system, facilitate international trade, and promote policy coherence in trade.
Special and differential treatment/least developed countries
Agriculture and fisheries
Access to affordable medicines
Progress on implementation of the Bali and Nairobi outcomes
Trade negotiations, WTO accessions, trade policy reviews and trade monitoring reports
Trade and the SDGs
Trade Finance
Aid for Trade
Trade facilitation
Development at the local level & the domestic enabling environment for trade
Coherence among bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements
Trade and investment agreements
Gender/women as producers and traders
The role of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
Illegal wildlife trade/fishing/logging/mining
Debt and debt sustainability
This action area covers recent trends in debt levels and debt sustainability as well as efforts as debt crisis prevention and debt crisis resolution.
Maintaining debt sustainability and improving debt sustainability assessments
Improving public debt management
Towards responsible borrowing and lending
Innovative instruments for managing debt burdens
Improving debt data and reporting
Debt crisis resolution: Actions by official creditors
Additional mechanisms, including involving private creditors
Legislative efforts to address non-cooperative minority creditors
Strengthening national legislation to address domestic sovereign debt
Addressing systemic issues
This action area covers efforts to enhance coherence and reduce vulnerabilities in the international system, strengthen global governance, address transnational crime and promote safe migration.
Strengthening global governance
Improving cooperation, coordination and policy coherence
Enhancing global macroeconomic stability with sustainable development
Shaping financial market regulation for sustainable development
Promoting safe migration
Combating transnational crime
Science, technology, innovation and capacity-building
This action area covers access to technology, the creation of innovation systems, research & development, and international support including with capacity-building.
Promoting information and communication technology, access to technology for all and social innovation
Developing national policy frameworks for science, technology and innovation
Creating a more enabling environment for science, technology and innovation
National level institutions and mechanisms to strengthen science, technology and innovation
International level institutions and mechanisms to strengthen science, technology and innovation
Technology transfer
Actions within the United Nations or by the United Nations system
Capacity building
New technologies and financing for development
Data, monitoring and follow-up
This action area covers the production of high quality disaggregated data for policy making, as well as data gaps and monitoring challenges.
Data availability (including disaggregation) and adequacy
Standardisation of data
Data on cross border financing and domestic resource mobilization
Development of specific measures and tools
Transparency and needs assessment
Efforts to strengthen statistical capacities
Workstreams
This section of the website provides information on substantive work streams initiated by the Task Force to carry out in-depth analysis on specific issues of interest to the FfD process
