In one month, the biggest names in development finance, country leaders, civil society, and private sector representatives will be meeting in Seville, Spain, for a conference that’s been a decade in the making: the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4.
This conference might be the most anticipated of the year among development professionals — in part due to its infrequency, but also for what it is meant to achieve: FfD is where countries establish a norm-setting agenda for the next 10 years of development finance.
The very first FfD conference was in March of 2002, just six months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks struck the U.S. That conference, and the two that followed, have served as a space to shape the principles of development finance.