1–2 July 2026
UN Conference Centre, Conference Room 2, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Format: Hybrid (in-person and virtual)
Languages: English (with French interpretation)
Overview
The Africa Regional Consultation will bring together policymakers, development partners, and key stakeholders to identify practical pathways for operationalizing the Sevilla Commitments adopted at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4).
The consultation responds to Africa’s urgent need to:
- Strengthen financing for climate resilience and sustainable development
- Address fragmentation and inefficiencies in development finance
- Translate global commitments into measurable results at country and regional levels
Background
Africa continues to face significant and interconnected challenges, including:
- Rising debt burdens and constrained fiscal space
- Climate vulnerability and increasing shocks
- Limited access to affordable, long-term financing
- Fragmented and unpredictable development cooperation
The Sevilla Commitments (2025) represent a renewed global effort to:
- Reform the international financial architecture
- Enhance development cooperation effectiveness
- Scale investment for sustainable development
For Africa, the priority is now operationalization—moving from commitments to delivery.
Objectives
The consultation aims to:
- Identify practical pathways for implementing the Sevilla Commitments in Africa
- Bridge global commitments and country-level delivery
- Strengthen coordination across African institutions, UN entities, MDBs, and partners
- Generate action-oriented recommendations for global and regional follow-up processes
Key Themes
The consultation will focus on the following priority areas:
- Expanding fiscal space (tax reforms, domestic resource mobilization, IFFs)
- Lowering Africa’s cost of capital (risk-sharing, capital markets, pipelines)
- Engagement with the global financing system (MDB reform, SDRs, cooperation architecture)
- Systemic debt solutions (transparency, restructuring, resilience-linked instruments)
- Financing AfCFTA implementation (trade, infrastructure, value chains)
- Climate finance and resilience (adaptation, disaster risk financing, climate–debt links)
- Digital innovation and public goods (infrastructure, ecosystems, technology governance)
- From commitment to delivery (INFFs, monitoring, operational frameworks)
Expected Outcomes
The consultation will deliver:
- A shared understanding of priority operational actions for Africa
- Identification of scalable instruments, platforms, and pilot initiatives
- Policy recommendations for governments and partners
- Clear inputs to global and regional follow-up mechanisms
Participants
The consultation will bring together:
- African governments (Finance, Planning, Environment)
- African Union Commission, AfDB, and regional institutions
- United Nations entities (including RCOs and regional offices)
- MDBs, climate funds, and development partners
- Private sector, civil society, academia, and philanthropic organizations
Follow-Up
Outcomes will inform:
- ECOSOC and Financing for Development follow-up processes
- High-Level Political Forum
- African Union policy frameworks
- National and regional financing strategies
Contact
Mr. Gamal Ibrahim
Chief, Macroeconomic Analysis, Institutions and Economic Governance Section
UN Economic Commission for Africa
gamal.ibrahim@un.org
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