The government’s heading, Sarra Zaâfrani Zenzri, represents President Kaïs Saïed at the Fourth International United Nations Conference on Development Financing (FFD4), which is held from June 30 to July 1, 2025 in Seville, Spain. This global meeting is devoted to the implementation of the 2030 agenda and to the reform of international financial architecture.
Alongside heads of state, managers of regional and international organizations, managers of financial institutions, actors in civil society and the private sector, Sarra Zaâfrani Zenzri participates in several panels dedicated to major global economic issues. Bilateral interviews are also planned with leaders and representatives of large international financial institutions.
This fourth edition aims to rethink in depth the mechanisms of financing sustainable development, through a structural reform of the global financial system. It also intends to raise the brakes to investment, especially in developing countries, which suffer from a funding deficit estimated at $ 4,000 billion per year, according to the United Nations.
The objective: to allow countries to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 – including poverty, hunger, climate change or inequalities. But less than five years from the deadline, delays accumulate, mainly due to the chronic lack of financial resources and their volatility.
Despite the withdrawal of the United States from negotiations, UN member states found common ground on June 25 around the “Seville compromise”, the final document of the FFD4. Fruit of long months of discussions carried out in particular by Mexico, Nepal, Zambia and Norway, this text constitutes an updated framework aimed at strengthening the commitments made during the previous conferences, in particular those of the Addis Ababa action program adopted in 2015.
The Seville conference is a continuation of the summits of Monterrey (2002), Doha (2008) and Addis Ababa (2015), which structured the main principles of development funding within the UN system. The current summit must lead to concrete commitments to accelerate international efforts in favor of sustainable development.
