Spring Meeting
New Coalitions for SDGs
After a successful Spring Meeting in Morocco dedicated to “Fair Transitions” in 2024, the Paris Peace Forum once again held its mid-year event outside of France. This year, it took place in Sevilla, Spain, during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), from June 30th to July 1st, 2025.
The Forum gathered its community in a context of major aid cuts and financing crisis for the 2030 agenda, and offered a platform to create new coalitions and new strategies to finance what matters with all the actors willing to engage.
A focus on new coalitions for SDGs
Five years before 2030, only 17% of SDGs targets have been reached, and it is urgent to accelerate both progress and financing of the 2030 agenda. The dismantlement of USAID and the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Accords and from international organizations funding such as the World Health Organization or the World Food Program, as well as aid cuts in other major donor countries, have dealt a massive blow to the global development sector and global governance capacity.
Geopolitical tensions worldwide have also led major donor countries to rethink their budget priorities and increase military expenses. In this troubled context, Sevilla’s FfD4 Conference is a pivotal moment to address development financing at all levels, including to support reform of the international financial architecture.
Spring Meeting 2025
Priorities
Paving the way for the Forum’s 8th edition (29-30 October 2025) which will be centered around “New Coalitions for Peace, People and the Planet”, the Spring Meeting focused more specifically on “New Coalitions for SDGs” with thematic side events organized during FfD4 on the following topics:
A focus on new coalitions for SDGs
Putting Children First to Build Consensus around a Renewed Cooperation Agenda
Mobilizing Capital and Innovation to Transform African Agrifood Systems
Unlocking Private Investment for Healthier Futures