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International Conference on
Financing for Development
Monterrey, Mexico,
18-22 March 2002
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The International Conference on Financing for Development was held from 18-22 March
2002 in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.The Post Conference Daily Calendar provides
links to all information from the plenaries, roundtables, side events and press
conferences. The General Assembly will convene on Thursday, 27 June 2002 to discuss
the report of the conference (A/Conf.198/11).
This first United Nations-hosted conference to address key financial and development
issues attracted 50 Heads of State
or Government, over 200 ministers as well as leaders from the private sector and civil
society, and senior officials of all the major intergovernmental financial, trade,
economic, and monetary organizations. Their statements to the plenaries (in text and in video) and the Monterrey Consensus
provide a picture of the new global approach to financing development.
The Monterrey Conference also marked the first quadripartite exchange of views between
governments, civil society, the business community, and the institutional stakeholders on
global economic issues. These global discussions involved over 800 participants in
twelve separate roundtables.
The Co-Chairs of the roundtables -- heads of governments, the heads of the World Bank,
International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the regional development
banks, as well as ministers of finance, trade, and foreign affairs --prepared summaries of the major
ideas raised in the discussions. |
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Plenaries and Commitments |
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The Summit segment started with statements from the
President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the
heads of IMF, WB, WTO. |
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Over 50
Heads of State or Government addressed the plenary on Thursday and Friday. |
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The Summit also heard statements from the
organizers of the Civil Society Forum, the International Business Forum and the
Parliamentarians Forum. |
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Major new announcements on ODA levels were announced by the European Union and the United States. Governments are
invited to post similar announcements or post-Conference observations on the FfD web site. |
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The Monterrey Consensus
was adopted by acclamation at the Summit Segment of the International Conference on
Financing for Development on 22 March 2002.. |
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Roundtables |
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Over 800 people during three days participated in the
first ever quadripartite roundtable dialogues on global macro economic issues. The
participants in the roundtables were government delegations (48), institutional
stakeholders (8), civil society (7) and the business sector (7). |
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The theme for the Tuesday Ministerial Roundtable was
"Partnerships in Financing for Development"; the theme for the Wednesday
Roundtable was "Coherence in Development"; and the theme for the Summit
Roundtable on Thursday was "Financing for Development: Looking Ahead". |
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The co-chairs' summaries
have been incorporated in the final report of the Conference. |
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Related Conference Events |
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Over 55 side-events took place during
the conference week. Participants in these seminars and workshops are invited to submit
their statements for the FfD website. |
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In addition to the official calendar and the forums, the
Government of Mexico sponsored a meeting of Finance Ministers on Wednesday evening, a
Heads-of-Delegation dinner on Thursday evening, a Heads of State or Government retreat on
Friday afternoon, and an open outdoor party on Friday night. |
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There were four independent forums on Financing for
Development. The Civil Society Forum
took place from Thursday to Saturday, 14 - 16 March 2002.
The Parliamentarian
Forum took place on Saturday 16 March 2002 in the Mexican Senate in Mexico City,
D.F.
The local Authorities Forum took place under the chairmanship of the Mayor of Monterrey;
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The International
Business Forum took place on Monday, 18 March 2002. |
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Institutional Stakeholders |
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Mr. Horst Ker of the IMF, Mr. James D. Wolfensohn of the
World Bank, and Mr. Michael Moore of the WTO co-chaired roundtables at the heads-of-state
level and made special introductory statements at the beginning of the Summit
Segment. |
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Staying Engaged |
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The Conference recommends that the General Assembly should
strengthen and make fuller use of the Assembly and the Economic and Social Council,
as well as the relevant intergovernmental/governing bodies of other institutional
stakeholders, for the purposes of conference follow-up and coordination. The Conference
recognized the link between financing of development and attaining internationally agreed
development goals and objectives, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration.
The chapter on Staying Engaged
contained suggestions such as
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- Interactions between representatives of the Economic and Social Council and the
directors of the executive boards of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
and the representatives of the appropriate intergovernmental body of the World Trade
Organization should continue
- The United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, with the World
Trade Organization, should address issues of coherence, coordination and cooperation, as a
follow-up to the Conference. This meeting should include an intergovernmental
segment to address an agenda agreed to by the participating organizations, as well as a
dialogue with civil society and the private sector;
- The current high-level dialogue on strengthening international cooperation for
development through partnership, held every two years in the General Assembly, would
consider the financing for development-related reports coming from the Economic and Social
Council and other bodies, as well as other financing for development-related issues. It
would be reconstituted to enable it to become the intergovernmental focal point for the
general follow-up to the Conference and related issues. The high-level dialogue would
include a policy dialogue, with the participation of the relevant stakeholders, on the
implementation of the results of the Conference, including the theme of coherence and
consistency of the international monetary, financial and trading systems in support of
development; and
- Governments should continue to improve domestic policy coherence through the continued
engagement of our ministries of development, finance, trade and foreign affairs, as well
as our central banks.
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