4th International Conference on Financing for Development
Sevilla, Spain | 30 June – 3 July 2025
Join the NORRAG Team at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development. More information soon.
Financing Our Future
The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) provides a unique opportunity to reform financing at all levels, including to support reform of the international financial architecture and addressing financing challenges preventing the urgently needed investment push for the SDGs. FFD4 Conference will be held in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre.
The International Conferences on Financing for Development are the only space where leaders from all governments, along with international and regional organizations, financial and trade institutions, businesses, civil society and the UN System unite at the highest levels, fostering stronger international cooperation.
While much attention recently has been focused on the international aid crisis, this represents a very small proportion of development and humanitarian funding. The decadal financing for development conference (FfD4) will discuss all of the different—more significant—sources of finance for development as recognized in the Transforming Education Summit Action Track 5.
The scale of international development aid inflows in comparison to other outflows. This is similar in Asia and Latin America. Source: Jubilee Debt Campaign & Health Poverty Action, 2018
As governments, civil society and private sector actors gather to define the next decadal agenda of financing for development, the education community will be represented in three ways:
NORRAG will present evidence on a variety of financing approaches at an exhibition booth.
Image – I’ve done a mock up based on the booth’s original artwork. Please could you do a good version of that properly in Adobe InDesign?
Side events
Member states in-person event: “Driving Transformational Change in Financing Essential Public Services: The Case of Education” Organised by France, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, Council of Europe Development Bank, GPE, UNESCO and Finance in Common (concept note attached). The side event will focus on innovative financing for education, showcasing scalable models and proven solutions (such as progressive taxes, innovative fiscal policies, earmarked funds, public financial management, and debt swaps), and will also explore the strategic use of ODA. The outcome will be a joint statement from the co-organizers, laying the groundwork for an integrated and sustainable education financing framework. Jul 1, 2025 08:30 AM
Civil society hybrid event : “Financing futures: Centring Education in International Financial Architecture Reform” co-hosted by Malala Fund, Fe y Alegría International, FEMNET, Latindadd, Global Campaign for Education. Jul 2, 2025 08:30 AM CEST
Supporting documents
First Draft of the FFD4 Outcome Document
Closing the global SDG4 financing gap: Accelerating sustainable financing solutions for education – Financing Policy Brief Series prepared by the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development