Writer: Shereen Talaat
The outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) was adopted “by consensus,” but this consensus was manufactured. Civil society has witnessed weeks of backroom negotiations, pressure, and procedural opacity. The transparency that should define international cooperation was absent. The accountability mechanisms civil society fought for were diluted. Calls for real action on debt, climate finance, tax justice, and reform of the global financial architecture were deflected or erased.
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