FAO at the 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum

The global economic outlook remains fragile amid a highly challenging environment. Countries are facing difficult economic policy trade-offs and recent shocks are threatening to further reverse progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Both immediate and longer-term measures are urgently needed to effectively finance responses to multiple overlapping crises while scaling up essential investments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The 2023 Financing for Development Forum will be held from 17 to 20 April 2023 in the Trusteeship Council, at UN Headquarters, New York. It will provide a platform for inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the current global challenges and advance policies for financing long-term sustainable development priorities, in line with its mandate laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda.

The 2023 Financing for Sustainable Development Report, launched ahead of the Forum and to which FAO provided inputs, finds that SDG financing needs are growing, but development financing is not keeping pace. The war in Ukraine, sharp increases in food and energy prices, and rapidly tightening financial conditions have increased hunger and poverty and reversed progress on the SDGs. If left unaddressed, a “great finance divide” will translate into a lasting sustainable development divide.

Access FAO's key messages for the 2023 Financing for Development Forum here.

FAO at the 2023 Financing for Development Forum

GENERAL DEBATE

Monday, 17 April - Thursday, 20 April | Hybrid
UNHQ Trusteeship Council

'General Debate of the 2023 Financing for Development Forum'

*Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations, QU Guangzhou, to deliver a statement on behalf of FAO.

Live webcast| FAO statement


PANEL DISCUSSION 1

Monday, 17 April | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT) | Hybrid
UNHQ | Trusteeship Council

'Coping with cascading crises and investing in sustainable development: How to make the right policy choices?'

*FAO Senior Policy Officer, Adriano Campolina, to deliver a statement on behalf of FAO.

Live webcast


PANEL DISCUSSION 2

Monday, 17 April | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT) | Hybrid
UNHQ | Trusteeship Council

'Remaking the international financial architecture to achieve the SDGs'

*Director of the FAO Agrifood Economics Division, David Laborde, to deliver a statement on behalf of FAO.

Live webcast


SIDE EVENT

Monday, 17 April | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT) | Hybrid
UNHQ Conference Room 11

'Exploring approaches and strategies on how to bring the role of finance for development on mitigating/preventing food crises and promoting food systems transformation with a focus on the FAO Global Food Import Financing Facility'

Organized by FAO.

*FAO Chief Economist, Máximo Torero Cullen, to deliver opening remarks.
*Director of the FAO Agrifood Economics Division, David Laborde, to provide closing remarks.
*FAO Senior Policy Officer, Adriano Campolina, to moderate.

Concept note and Agenda | Register | Live webcast | FAO Chief Economist presentation


PANEL DISCUSSION 3

Monday, 17 April | 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (EDT) | Hybrid
UNHQ | Trusteeship Council

'Development cooperation: Long-term resilience and the role of multilateral development banks'

*Director of the FAO Agrifood Economics Division, David Laborde, to deliver a statement on behalf of FAO.

Live webcast


PANEL DISCUSSION 7

Wednesday, 19 April | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT) | Hybrid
UNHQ | Trusteeship Council

'Climate financing for adaptation and the SDGs'

*FAO Senior Policy Officer, Adriano Campolina, to deliver a statement on behalf of FAO.

Live webcast


SDG INVESTMENT FAIR

Thursday, 20 April | 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM (EDT)
UNHQ | Trusteeship Council

''Powering sustainable food systems by expanding access to innovative financing and export markets for agro-MSMEs'

*FAO Senior Policy Officer, Adriano Campolina, to participate as a panelist.

SDG Investment Fair programme | SDG Investment Fair website | FAO statement


PANEL DISCUSSION 9

Thursday, 20 April | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EDT) | Hybrid
UNHQ | Trusteeship Council

'Safeguarding food security through multilateralism, trade and national actions'

*Director of the FAO Agrifood Economics Division, David Laborde, to participate as a panelist.

Concept note and Agenda | Live webcast