📅 14- 15 March 2023
New York, USA
To navigate the evolving, multiple crises worldwide and rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the quality and impact of international development cooperation must be significantly enhanced. The 2023 Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) will emphasize the human dimension of development cooperation, focusing on the lives and livelihoods of the people that development cooperation is meant to serve.
It will spotlight the distinctive role that risk-informed development cooperation plays in building the resilience of the most vulnerable, including through strengthened support for social protection, climate adaptation, and digital transformation. As such and in line with its mandates, the DCF will put in place a firm foundation for collective policy actions in 2023, including at the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development, High-level Political Forum on sustainable development, the SDG Summit and the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, among others.
Since 2008, the DCF has advanced an inclusive, dynamic approach to development cooperation among UN Member States and relevant development cooperation actors. It is the global platform for evidence-based, balanced, and forward-looking discussions of the latest trends, progress, and emerging issues in development cooperation. By providing all relevant actors a space to identify priorities and share experiences, the Forum strengthens coherence and coordination across diverse development cooperation efforts and modalities.
As a multi-stakeholder platform, the DCF engages government representatives at the ministerial and Director-General levels from all regions, alongside stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, philanthropy, local and regional governments, parliaments, international and regional organizations, and development banks.