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The 'Financing for Development' (FfD) initiative, involved the UN General Assembly agreeing to anunprecedented collaboration between the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), to find innovative ways to address the many issues affecting the financing of development.Objectives:
- Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
- Mobilizing international resources for development: foreign direct investment and other private flows
- Encouraging international trade
- Increasing international financial co-operation for development through inter alia ODA
- Dealing with external debt
- Addressing systemic issues: enhancing the coherence and consistency of the international monetary, financial and trading systems in support of development
The FFD website includes:
- An overview of FFD
- Policy texts and agenda overviews
- Relevant reports
- Regional consultations
- Relevant stakeholder activity outlines
- Person contact details
- Updated policy developments
- Functionality to allow interested parties and NGOs to contribute papers and documents
- Organisational contact details
| Website: | http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ |
| Email: | ffd@un.org |
| Tel: | 212-963-2587 |
| Fax: | 212-963-0443 |
| Address: | Financing for Development Coordinating Secretariat, 2 United Nations Plaza (Room DC2-2386), New York |
