Government and civil society representatives from around the world will converge on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July this year to discuss how to fund a new set of sustainable development goals that are broader and more ambitious than their predecessors.
This is potentially a very big “deal.” However, advance expectations for such massive gatherings are understandably muted, given the diverse array of actors and sometimes sharply divergent interests involved, alongside the sheer scale and complexity of the challenge.
There are four big topics in development finance where we feel concrete progress is nonetheless both desirable and feasible in 2015.