17.07.2015

Civil Society Response to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development

Third FfD Failing to Finance Development

Civil Society FfD Forum Addis Ababa, 16 July 2015 - Civil society concerns on several issues of the outcome: "We, members of hundreds of civil society organizations and networks from around the world engaged in the Third FfD Conference, would like to express our deepest concerns and reservations on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, based on both our ongoing contributions to the process and the deliberations of the CSO FfD Forum (Addis Ababa, 10-12 July 2015).

The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) lost the opportunity to tackle the structural injustices in the current global economic system and ensure that development finance is people-centred and protects the environment. It does not rise to world’s current multiple challenges, nor does it contain the necessary  leadership, ambition  and  practical  actions."

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