International development cooperation

The importance of investments and capacity building for education is recognized in the Monterrey Consensus and the Doha Declaration.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda emphasizes the importance of international development cooperation and partnerships in the health sector.

The Addis Agenda specifically:

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda contains commitments and action items on capacity building throughout its Action Areas.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda welcomes the progress in developing and mobilizing support for innovative sources and mechanisms of additional financing since Monterrey.

The Addis Agenda acknowledges that development finance can contribute to reducing vulnerabilities and enable countries to prevent or combat situations of crisis related to conflict or natural disasters.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda reaffirms decisions and agreements on climate finance made in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It also calls for transparent methodologies in reporting climate finance. Related commitments on disaster risk and environmental resilience are also covered in a dedicated section on ecosystems.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda contains a range of commitments to enhance the quality, impact and effectiveness of international development cooperation.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda recognizes that the allocation of concessional public finance should take into account a recipient country’s needs and ability to mobilize resources. The Addis Agenda focuses on the special needs of different country groups, particularly LDCs and other vulnerable countries.

Other official flows generally refer to international public finance that does not qualify as concessional lending. It thus includes non-concessional loans, which are particularly important for countries that have graduated to middle income status, but still have difficulties accessing affordable financing from private markets. It also includes instruments that can leverage private finance, such as blended finance.

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda recognizes the significant potential of multilateral development banks (MDBs) and other international development banks, including in countercyclical lending and providing both concessional and non-concessional stable, long-term development finance.