Paris Peace Forum to Hold its 2025 Spring Meeting in Sevilla, 30 June-1 July

Paris, June 20, 2025 – As global leaders prepare to gather in Sevilla for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), the Paris Peace Forum is convening its 2025 Spring Meeting in the Spanish city on 30 June and 1 July 2025 on the theme of “New Coalitions for SDGs” to spotlight innovative cooperation and financial solutions aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. At a time when development budgets are falling and the number of conflicts continues to rise, it is critical for donors to meet to reaffirm their commitment to the SDG agenda, agree to implement new accelerators, and create new partnerships.

Through a series of high-level events, the Forum will bring together public and private actors committed to placing equity, resilience, and long-term investment at the center of the development agenda.

Held in partnership with leading organizations across the Global North and South, the Forum’s Spring Meeting will focus on three pressing priorities: child-centered development, African agrifood system transformation, and private investment in nutrition.

The first event, an official side event of the FfD4 co-organized with the Gates Foundation and the Spanish government, will focus on the Child Priority Framework, a unifying agenda to put children at the heart of development financing. As concessional finance dwindles and international consensus erodes, the Framework proposes child health, education, and nutrition as core pillars around which global cooperation can be rebuilt. The event will advocate for anchoring children’s wellbeing in financial decision-making and long-term investment. Only registere

On 1 July, the Forum’s ATLAS initiative (Agricultural Transitions Lab for African Solutions), chaired by Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki and Pascal Lamy, will lead a session on catalyzing finance for African agrifood, in partnership with BCG and AGRA: also an official side event of FfD4. With agriculture positioned as a critical driver of up to half of the SDGs, the session will highlight how blended finance, policy reform, and innovation can unlock the continent’s agricultural potential and secure a more food-resilient future.

Later the same day, the Forum joins GAIN and the Access to Nutrition Initiative for a session on Driving the Nutrition Economy, in the “Devex House” at Villa Luisa, showcasing the Paris Declaration on Business & Nutrition 2030 and exploring how public-private cooperation can address undernutrition. With a return of $23 for every $1 invested in nutrition, the discussion will position food systems reform as a strategic imperative for development and health outcomes alike.

The Spring Meeting will conclude with an invitation-only joint reception hosted with Devex at Villa Luisa, offering participants a moment to network and preview the next edition of the Paris Peace Forum, scheduled for 29–30 October 2025 in Paris, under the theme of “New Coalitions for Peace, People and the Planet.”

“In a world of tightening budgets and growing geopolitical fragmentation, our Spring Meeting in Sevilla will stress that meaningful progress is still possible when coalitions are built around shared priorities,” said Justin Vaïsse, Founder and Director General of the Paris Peace Forum. “From African agriculture to child development and the future of nutrition, these events show that cooperation is alive, and that solutions are within reach.”

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