GPF’s core mission is to monitor policy making at the United Nations. This includes thematic areas such as sustainable development, human rights, and financing for development as well as global governance, multilateralism, and the funding and reform of the United Nations system.
The UN is the most inclusive international organization with nearly universal membership and commitments to peace, sustainable development and human rights. GPF has a two-pronged approach - to advocate for values espoused by the UN and its agreements, while monitoring and exposing impediments that challenge proper UN operations. These include increasing corporate capture of policy-making at the UN, inadequate funding from the Member States and disregard of their UN agreements.
In this section we post information, analyses, documents, and background material related to multilateralism, the state of the United Nations and its reform, the financing of international organizations, the role of various international “clubs” (like the G20), new forms of public-private interactions, like multi-stakeholder initiatives and global partnerships, the modi operandi of global institutions and their subsidiary bodies, and the role of civil society organizations and social movements. Additional material such as tables and charts on UN Finance is available in our archive.
The international community has made significant strides on the road to the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). On 17 January 2025, the UN released the draft outcome document for the upcoming Sevilla Conference. The set of multilateral agreements included in the document will become the main global policy framework for development finance, complementing earlier agreements such as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the Monterrey Consensus. So what does the zero draft include?
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