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Side-Event at FFD4

Prosperity Through Resilience: Transforming Public Finance for a Thriving Future

PAGE at FFD4

1 July 2025, 08:30 - 10:00 CET

Side Event Room 12, Seville Conference and Exhibition Centre (FIBES)
Avenida Alcalde Luis Uruñuela, 1, 41020, Seville, Spain.

At the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action (CFMCA), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the Green Fiscal Policy Network (GFPN) are cohosting a side event to showcase how Ministries of Finance and development leaders can practically and proactively embed resilience into fiscal policies and financial practices. This reframes resilience not just as risk mitigation, but as an essential driver of economic prosperity, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability. Resulting in the creation of a virtuous cycle of sustained growth and stability.

Event Brief

Economic volatility, mounting debt, and accelerating climate-nature shocks are exposing countries to economic, environmental, and social risks. These challenges are putting pressure on both financial resources and natural assets, while labor markets face disruptions and opportunities as they shift towards greener, more circular economies.

Traditional public finance strategies, which were developed for older models of linear growth, are no longer sufficient to address these complex issues. Ministries of Finance must now take a leading role in building systemic resilience. This means carefully allocating resources to not only manage immediate shocks, but also to create quality jobs, strengthen social cohesion, and support the transition to a regenerative, net-zero, nature-positive, circular economy.

The side event will explore how Ministries of Finance and development partners can operationalise systemic resilience in budgets, debt strategy, and public-investment management. It will:

  • Reframe resilience from being merely a risk management tool to being a proactive catalyst for prosperity, creation of jobs and global competitiveness.
  • Highlight practical fiscal and blended-finance instruments that Ministries of Finance can adopt to integrate resilience effectively into public budgets, debt management, and investment strategies.
  • Demonstrate the critical role of partnerships and international collaboration in addressing global economic, climate, nature-related, and pollution challenges.

Invited Speakers

  • Hon. Mr. Matia Kasaija – Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda
  • Mr. Kjell Forsberg - Assistant Director General, Trade, Private sector and Financial Instruments, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
  • Ms. Debora Freire – Under-Secretary for Fiscal Policy at the Secretariat for Economic Policy (SPE) of Ministry of Finance, Brazil
  • Ms. Dorah Modise – Executive Director, Presidential Climate Commission, South Africa
  • Mr. Asad Naqvi – Director, Implementation Support Division, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • Mr. Nick Godfrey – Grantham Research Institute / london School of Economics (GRI/LSE)
  • Mr. Steven Stone – Deputy Director Industry and Economy Division, UNEP

Agenda

  1. Opening Remarks

    Hon. Mr. Matia Kasaija – Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Uganda.

  2. Interactive Panel

    This panel will reframe resilience and showcase it as a driver of productivity, employment, and circular-economy value chains.  Some key points that will be elaborated are:

    • Delving into the meaning of resilience in the context of public finance.
    • High-level insights and reflections from national efforts to integrate resilience into fiscal strategies and development planning.
    • Scaling action through partnerships.
    • Creating an enabling environment for private capital to support national and global commitments.
  3. Audience Dialogue

    Curated Question & Answer session.

  4. Closing Remarks

    Mr. Asad Naqvi – Director, Implementation Support Division, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
    Mr. Nick Godfrey – Grantham Research Institute / London School of Economics (GRI/LSE)

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Co-organisers

  • CFMCA
  • Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Green Fiscal Policy Network

Funding partners

  • European Commission
  • Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
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