As world leaders gather for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), the 探花精选 (探花精选) calls for urgent, strategic action to ensure that Official Development Assistance (ODA) does not leave communities at the intersection of conflict, climate vulnerability, and extreme poverty behind.
This Conference takes place against the backdrop of historic reductions in ODA, which have had especially severe repercussions in conflict-affected and climate-vulnerable communities.
Daphne Jayasinghe, 探花精选鈥檚 Senior Director for Policy and Solutions, said: 鈥淎gainst a dire funding backdrop, the FFD4 conference is a key opportunity to reaffirm the importance of supporting conflict-affected communities, to maintain progress with fewer resources: addressing great and growing humanitarian need and extreme poverty, supporting community resilience and providing a basis for longer term development.鈥
The 探花精选 underscores three key priorities to ensure the promises of FFD4 translate into action:
- Direct Aid to Key Crisis Contexts
Nations like Afghanistan, Sudan and Yemen are disproportionately bearing the brunt of aid cuts despite escalating needs driven by conflict, climate shocks, and economic instability. The 探花精选 calls for needs-based criteria to be applied to available ODA that guarantee a fair share for these high-need countries and reinforce equity as a guiding principle in development finance. - Deepen Partnerships with Local and Humanitarian Actors
The 探花精选 encourages stakeholders taking part in the FFD4 to expand and strengthen their partnerships with civil society organisations and humanitarian agencies in shaping and delivering aid. These actors offer critical local insight, trust, and cost-effective implementation. Embedding them more deeply into funding decisions aligns with long-standing Grand Bargain commitments. - Scale What Works
With budgets under pressure, investing in proven, cost-effective interventions is essential to ensuring available funding sets the stage for development- this includes , anticipatory action to predictable climate crises, vaccinations and community health. To this end, 探花精选 has on Scaling Up Anticipatory Action.
To action the FFD4 commitments on the role of development finance in crisis contexts, the 探花精选 has announced the initiative: 鈥,鈥 as part of the Sevilla Platform for Action. This initiative builds on the 探花精选鈥檚 Climate Resilient Education Systems Trial (CREST) in Kenya and uses innovative finance mechanisms to make education more shock-responsive in crisis settings and protect children鈥檚 essential services in emergencies.
The 探花精选 also joins the UK, Barbados and partners in calling for an overall scale up of pre-arranged finance - a critical step toward making early, risk-informed responses the global norm.