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Thank you very much, Mr. Vice-President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates.","start":185,"end":190,"topics":[]},{"text":"It is a great pleasure for me to join you together with other distinguished panelists at this important session of the 2026 ECOSOC Operational Activities Segment.","start":191,"end":201,"topics":[]},{"text":"As the Vice-President stated out, we meet at a very particularly challenging moment for development finance.","start":204,"end":211,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Well, just allow me to share some statistics that demand our immediate attention.","start":213,"end":220,"topics":[]},{"text":"Debt service burdens in developing countries have reached two-decade highs, whereas 45 developing countries now spending more on debt interest than on healthcare.","start":221,"end":231,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Official development assistance fell by a record 23% in 2025, and it is projected that about 6% decline this year,","start":233,"end":241,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"the largest annual drop in the history.","start":245,"end":248,"topics":[]},{"text":"And 77 developing countries remain below the 15% tax-to-GDP threshold, identifying Seville commitment.","start":249,"end":258,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Consequently, the SDG financing gap now exists a staggering 4 trillion US dollars annually. It's more than 4.3 trillion US dollars.","start":260,"end":271,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Against this backdrop, the Seville commitment delivered an important signal of our collective resolve.","start":273,"end":279,"topics":[]},{"text":"At the global level, the UN system is actively supporting the implementation of several Seville initiatives.","start":281,"end":288,"topics":[]},{"text":"These include the Borrowers' Platform and the upcoming dialogue on debt to be convened by the President of the General Assembly and the President of the ECOSOC, most likely in July.","start":289,"end":301,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"We are also advancing important efforts to address the cost of the capital and the high debt service that crowds out the SDG investment.","start":303,"end":311,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Initiatives like the Global Hub on Debt-for-Development Swaps housed at the World Bank, as well as an ECOSOC dialogue with credit rating agencies, are key steps forward.","start":313,"end":326,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"At the same time, negotiations continued on an UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation to support developing countries in mobilizing their domestic resources.","start":328,"end":339,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"However, in Seville, member states agreed to do more than just strengthen international financial and tax architecture.","start":341,"end":349,"topics":[]},{"text":"They committed to supporting country-led approaches to sustainable development financing.","start":350,"end":356,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"This is precisely where the UN development system plays an indispensable role.","start":357,"end":364,"topics":[]},{"text":"We must help countries translate global commitments into practical actions, supporting domestic resource mobilization, proactive debt management, and sustainable investment,","start":365,"end":378,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"all while aligning the financing flows with national priorities.","start":379,"end":384,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks, or as we call it, INFFs, are an important tool for these country-led financing strategies.","start":386,"end":393,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"They bring together public and private finance, as well as domestic and external resources, into one cohesive integrated framework.","start":394,"end":404,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"This helps countries align their financing with sustainable development needs while managing the risks.","start":405,"end":411,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"We believe the UN country teams can help countries address the increasing fragmentation within the international system and strengthen their engagement with IFIs, MDBs, bilateral partners, and the private sector.","start":413,"end":425,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"This convening role is essential to reducing fragmentation and bringing different actors together around the integrated national priorities.","start":426,"end":436,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Capacity building remains central to this implementation. It is telling that nearly one-third of the all actions outlined in Seville commitment relate directly to the capacity building,","start":438,"end":448,"topics":[]},{"text":"technical assistance, and institutional strengthening. To that end, my department, the UN DESA, aims to strengthen the links between global financing discussions and national implementation through a new Financing for Development Network","start":449,"end":468,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"of the national focal points, in close collaboration with the regional economic commissions and the Development Coordination Office.","start":469,"end":481,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"This will support the peer-to-peer learning across the regions.","start":482,"end":485,"topics":[]},{"text":"The network operates in the two directions, connecting national actors to global financing for development processes and channeling the national experiences and insights into the global FfD follow-up mechanisms.","start":486,"end":498,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"We strongly encourage the UN country teams to engage actively with the network and its national focal points.","start":500,"end":508,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Dear colleagues, UN DESA stands ready to work with you to support country-led approaches to financing sustainable development.","start":510,"end":523,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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Thank you.","start":532,"end":547,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Li Junhua","affiliation":"UN DESA","affiliation_full":"UN DESA","group":null,"function":"Secretario General Adjunto de Asuntos Económicos y Sociales"}},{"statement_number":3,"start":549,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=549","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchas gracias, Secretario General Adjunto de Asuntos Económicos y Sociales.","start":549,"end":554,"topics":[]},{"text":"Invito ahora al señor Ilan Goldfajn, Presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, a que formule una declaración.","start":555,"end":563,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":4,"start":569,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=569","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you very much, Chair, Ambassador Benkosme, and the Secretary-General Li, Resident Coordinators Sanchez and Muffuh, Ambassador Gomez Hernandez, distinguished leaders, delegates. Thank you for the invitation to join you here, I'm sorry I'm not in person, but at least virtually.","start":569,"end":589,"topics":[]},{"text":"I think the issue today is very practical. How can we help countries mobilize more financing and use them more effectively?","start":591,"end":603,"topics":[]},{"text":"A large part of the answer lies in stronger, smarter collaboration between the United Nations development system and international finance institutions, the MDBs, the multilateral development banks.","start":605,"end":616,"topics":[]},{"text":"Countries today face increasingly complex challenges.","start":617,"end":623,"topics":[]},{"text":"Fiscal space is constrained, development needs are growing, the financing gap remains significant. No single institution can mobilize resources efficiently alone.","start":624,"end":634,"topics":[]},{"text":"Over the past few years, the MDBs and the IDB Group, the Inter-American Development Group in particular, and UN partners have taken important steps in cooperating more closely.","start":636,"end":650,"topics":[]},{"text":"The UN brings expertise, convening power, and deep engagement.","start":652,"end":656,"topics":[]},{"text":"I want to mention two important processes that we have been collaborating together.","start":657,"end":664,"topics":[]},{"text":"Not too long ago, the Financing for Development Conference in Seville, and also not too long ago, in the COP processes, the COP30 in Belém, Brazil.","start":666,"end":675,"topics":[]},{"text":"In Seville, we had a very strong participation with many important milestones. We launched the FX Edge, a new platform to reduce currency risk, unlock private investment in developing countries.","start":676,"end":689,"topics":[]},{"text":"We also joined major international initiatives, including Spain's debt pause clauses and the Global Hub for Debt Swaps and the UK's global coalition to scale up pre-arranged financing.","start":690,"end":704,"topics":[]},{"text":"We also announced an expanded disaster risk protection through an additional 2 billion dollars in coverage.","start":705,"end":713,"topics":[]},{"text":"At COP30 in Belém, we, the IDB, were the largest MDB present. We launched initiatives that are expected to mobilize 6 billion dollars across resilient infrastructure, nature finance, energy, and support for vulnerable communities.","start":714,"end":731,"topics":[]},{"text":"We announced initiatives like the Amazonia Bond program that will bring resources to the Amazon, new finance for climate resilient infrastructure, expanded nature finance initiative, and more and more.","start":732,"end":745,"topics":[]},{"text":"But I have to tell you also that we are making our collaboration more systematic and operational with the UN agencies.","start":746,"end":754,"topics":[]},{"text":"The IDB has established seven procedural framework agreements with UNDP, UNICEF, WFP, FAO, UNESCO, UNEP, UNOPS, and there are more to come.","start":755,"end":768,"topics":[]},{"text":"These agreements allow UN agencies to participate directly in execution, provide technical support, and act as a procurement partner with projects that the IDB finance with our resources.","start":769,"end":779,"topics":[]},{"text":"And of course, we have several MOUs with many other UN agencies where we define joint areas of interest and action.","start":787,"end":795,"topics":[]},{"text":"The objective of those is simple. We have fewer parallel processes, less fragmentation, we define clearer roles, and we can have a faster delivery for the country.","start":796,"end":809,"topics":[]},{"text":"But of course, countries do not measure the success by the agreements we sign.","start":811,"end":818,"topics":[]},{"text":"They measure success by whether we are acting, financing, reaching their priorities faster, whether projects are implemented effectively, and whether we can show results.","start":819,"end":832,"topics":[]},{"text":"So I will tell you a few examples, concrete examples, where you can see where we are aligned.","start":834,"end":840,"topics":[]},{"text":"Let me start with Jamaica, following Hurricane Melissa.","start":841,"end":846,"topics":[]},{"text":"The government of Jamaica asked us, the IDB and ECLAC, to jointly lead the damage and loss assessment, and we worked closely with UN agencies, with PAHO, World Food Programme, and UNICEF to help Jamaica after the hurricane.","start":847,"end":863,"topics":[]},{"text":"That created a common evidence base, aligned our development partners behind a national recovery strategy devised by Jamaica.","start":864,"end":874,"topics":[]},{"text":"The lesson from Jamaica is important. After a shock, countries do not only need assessment, they need a path to investment with coordination.","start":875,"end":886,"topics":[]},{"text":"Let me give you another example, Haiti.","start":887,"end":891,"topics":[]},{"text":"The IDB has partnered with the World Food Programme and international institutions to deliver unconditional cash transfers to vulnerable households in a very complex context.","start":892,"end":904,"topics":[]},{"text":"We also partner in feeding, uh, in schools programs, and that has been very important in a country that is, that has now quite a bit of security issues.","start":905,"end":922,"topics":[]},{"text":"Last example I'm going to give is El Salvador, where we brought the private sector in, we crowd in the private sector.","start":923,"end":930,"topics":[]},{"text":"With the World Food Programme, we helped launch what we call Gastro Lab, which is a, which is a culinary tourism sector initiative to foster opportunities so that we can get more private sector in a very strategic sector in El Salvador.","start":931,"end":953,"topics":[]},{"text":"But more broadly, we need to rely in country platforms.","start":954,"end":959,"topics":[]},{"text":"Country platforms can be effective way to organize our work, aligning government, UN development system, MDBs, donors, and the private sector.","start":961,"end":973,"topics":[]},{"text":"Again, let me give you examples. In Ecuador, the IDB, the UNDP, and the broader UN system, more than 20 partners, are supporting the government's citizen security agenda, which is a priority for Ecuador.","start":974,"end":990,"topics":[]},{"text":"In Ecuador, we also launched a broader alliance, the Alliance for Security, Justice and Development, which brings together 22 Latin America countries to fight organized crime.","start":991,"end":1000,"topics":[]},{"text":"But also 13 partners, including the UNDP, and we joined with other MDBs around a platform to address crime.","start":1001,"end":1015,"topics":[]},{"text":"And we have other platforms, maybe you know about our Amazonia Forever platform, which has been important.","start":1016,"end":1023,"topics":[]},{"text":"So let me close saying that the task before us is to make MDBs and UN collaboration more systematic, less fragmented, more practical, and more focused on results for the benefit of our member countries.","start":1024,"end":1040,"topics":[]},{"text":"At the IDB Group, we are committed to deepening this partnership, in particular across Latin America and the Caribbean. Thank you very much.","start":1041,"end":1050,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Ilan Goldfajn","affiliation":"IDB","affiliation_full":"IDB","group":null,"function":"President"}},{"statement_number":5,"start":1052,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=1052","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchas gracias al Presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo por su intervención.","start":1052,"end":1058,"topics":[]},{"text":"Invito ahora a la señora Julia Sánchez, Coordinadora Residente de la República Dominicana, a que formule su declaración. Mucho gusto tenerla.","start":1059,"end":1067,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":6,"start":1069,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=1069","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchas gracias, Mr. Chair, Your Excellencies, UN colleagues.","start":1069,"end":1073,"topics":[]},{"text":"The Dominican Republic is a stable, fast-growing middle-income country with strong ambitions, doubling GDP by 2036, advancing towards OECD standards.","start":1074,"end":1091,"topics":[]},{"text":"And yet inequality, climate vulnerability, and territorial disparities persist. In this context, the question is not only how to mobilize more financing, but also how to make financing work better.","start":1091,"end":1100,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"My first point is that the UN's role in middle-income countries is above all catalytic. Our strength lies in identifying priorities, convening the right partners, piloting solutions that others can bring to scale, and ensuring financing aligns with national development goals and the SDGs.","start":1101,"end":1121,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Allow me to share two examples. The Joint SDG Fund supports a food systems transformation program implemented by FAO, WFP, and UNEP with an investment of 2 million dollars, generating evidence and building partnerships to unlock over 30 million dollars in follow-up financing from IFAD, the World Bank, and the IDB in under two years.","start":1122,"end":1144,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"But catalytic is not only financial leverage, it is also convening power. PAHO and WHO has brought the Ministry of Health, the World Bank, and the IDB together around a national strategy for primary healthcare. 190 million dollars from the World Bank, 60 million from the IDB, and PAHO's integrated technical advice render those investments coherent and nationally owned.","start":1145,"end":1173,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"My second point is that in a world of shrinking ODA, the UN's value is driving implementation and impact.","start":1174,"end":1181,"topics":[]},{"text":"IFIs are financing billions of loans across the region that do not always move as fast as they should. Governments face implementation bottlenecks, coordination challenges, technical capacity constraints, and that is precisely where the UN adds value. We are present on the ground. We carry technical expertise across sectors. We have built trusting relationships with national institutions over decades. We can work with governments and IFIs to unblock what is stuck, accelerating implementation, strengthening coordination, and ensuring impact.","start":1182,"end":1220,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"In the Dominican Republic, we have successfully done exactly that with FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, and my office is now working with the World Bank and the government to expand this type of collaboration to other sectors and with other UN agencies.","start":1221,"end":1236,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"This requires a new generation of UN-IFI-government partnerships. Genuine triangular collaboration where government sets the agenda, IFIs bring the funding and scale, and the UN ensures implementation and impact.","start":1237,"end":1253,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"My third and last point is that innovation is central to financing for development. Since 2023, the government, with support from UN DESA, ECLAC, UNDP, UNICEF, and the RCO, has been developing an Integrated National Financing Framework, the INFF. Its financing strategy is a decision-making tool that maps domestic and international financing flows, identifies gaps, and helps the government direct resources where they generate the greatest development impact. And now, with support of the Joint SDG Fund, we are using artificial intelligence to automate SDG budget tagging and strengthen public expenditure analysis, giving policymakers real-time visibility into what resources are contributing to what goals.","start":1254,"end":1303,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"In closing, the Dominican Republic's experience shows how country-level action can translate global commitments into practical solutions. The Seville outcome, the Pact for the Future, and Addis all call for stronger partnerships, more integrated financing approaches, and greater use of innovation. The UN development system is uniquely positioned to help build those connections, working alongside governments, IFIs, and other development partners to turn ambitious agendas into tangible results that leave no one behind. Thank you.","start":1304,"end":1337,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."},{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Julia Sánchez","affiliation":"DOM","affiliation_full":"Dominican Republic","group":null,"function":"Resident Coordinator"}},{"statement_number":7,"start":1340,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=1340","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchísimas gracias a la Coordinadora Residente de República Dominicana por compartir la experiencia de nuestro país.","start":1340,"end":1348,"topics":[]},{"text":"Ahora sí, damos la bienvenida e invito al señor Nelson Muffuh, Coordinador Residente de Sudáfrica a que formule una declaración. Por favor.","start":1349,"end":1354,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":8,"start":1356,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=1356","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Distinguished delegates and fellow speakers, Mr. Vice-President, thank you for the opportunity.","start":1356,"end":1361,"topics":[]},{"text":"I want to speak plainly from a country's perspective, drawing on what we're seeing in South Africa and building on our new cooperation framework, which is aligned to the National Development Plan and the medium-term development plan, but most importantly, it's also aligned to national budgeting processes and financing mechanisms.","start":1362,"end":1382,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"This is happening because we're advancing structured engagement with several government departments, including the department in charge of planning, monitoring and evaluation, the National Treasury, of course, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, and other sector departments, with the intention of linking policy priorities with financing strategies, budget processes and emerging investment pipelines.","start":1383,"end":1410,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"We've heard about the importance of ensuring that the path to investment with coordination is really important, and that's where the resident coordination system matters and leadership as well from the UN development group.","start":1411,"end":1429,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Financing and partnerships are where fragmentation is most costly. And in the South African context, the reality we're facing is one which is not dissimilar to other upper-middle-income countries, where we have strong domestic financing institutions and capital markets, but also persistent inequality, unemployment and fiscal constraints, including debt pressures that continue to constrain development spending.","start":1430,"end":1457,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"So it is important that coordination helps bridge the gap and connect the dots, because without this, capacity building,","start":1458,"end":1469,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"as well as policy and technical assistance and institutional strengthening, becomes a set of disconnected interventions and conversations. And the resident coordinator function helps bring these together, aligning the full UN system and partners behind national priorities and supporting more effective use of resources.","start":1470,"end":1491,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"And we clearly see in our context that partners from the private sector, but also the IFIs and development partners, are increasingly ready to play their part.","start":1492,"end":1503,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"We are already undertaking and experiencing this alignment more concretely, including through closer work with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the African Development Bank, and other IFIs, especially around the Just Energy Transition Implementation Framework, where over 13 billion US dollars have been pledged, and also efforts around improving governance and the capacity of the state to deliver, a key pillar of the medium-term development plan of the seventh administration.","start":1504,"end":1535,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"So concretely, we're doing three things. First, through the South African Business Initiative for Impact, which was launched on the margins of the G20 presidency last year, the UN is working with partners to actively convene asset owners, private sector leaders, and development partners to move from interest to investable pipelines aligned with national priorities. We are seeking to make development investable rather than trying to make investment developmental.","start":1536,"end":1568,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"South Africa's own unprecedented investment conferences are showing sustained appetite from investors. At the recent sixth South African Investment Conference, convened by the President, companies made a record 54 billion dollars commitment out of the target of 185 billion by 2030, and we are encouraging the government and other partners to pursue this going forward.","start":1569,"end":1597,"topics":[]},{"text":"I already mentioned our engagement with line departments but also with the presidency on Integrated National Financing Frameworks, and USG Li mentioned this. And this is in line with the FfD outcome, because it is important that a blended approach to financing and a healthy package of financing is what we can advance.","start":1598,"end":1621,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"Lastly, we are also taking a more deliberate territorial approach to localization, because that's where the rubber hits the road. And we're working with government institutions but also the South African Local Government Association and the Development Bank of Southern Africa, as well as the Joint SDG Front, Old Mutual and African Bank on township entrepreneurship, but also looking at aligning national priorities with subnational planning, financing and delivery.","start":1622,"end":1649,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"And we can only do this if we're working effectively across the United Nations country team, delivering better together. And we see this in our interventions around One Health and pandemic preparedness, in restoring landscapes in Southern Africa, an initiative we're rolling out with UNEP and UNESCO, but also in addressing GBV in schools and better outcomes for girls, financed by the European Union and other investors, but delivered through UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA, UN Women, UNDP and others.","start":1650,"end":1684,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"So ultimately, financing is about the national choices that are made and the UN coordinated backing that we're advancing. And only in this way will we be able to address the development emergency that the Secretary-General yesterday indicated.","start":1685,"end":1700,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"So let me end with my straightforward ask. The ask I have is really around ensuring that there's predictable and flexible funding, pooled and core, that enables the United Nations to effectively play its part, and we heard this morning about the funding compact commitments.","start":1700,"end":1719,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Secondly, we also need to ensure that we are supporting country-led financing frameworks, which aligns public, private and international resources.","start":1720,"end":1731,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"And third, we need to ensure that there is also alignment between national policy and budget choices, particularly those that seek investments in people, jobs and resilience, and this is relevant in the South African context, because where we see policy, partnerships and financing aligned, progress becomes tangible and the resident coordinator system is central in playing this role. I thank you.","start":1732,"end":1756,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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And I'd like to take this opportunity to remind speakers that in order to allow enough opportunity for everyone to participate, there will be a time limit of two minutes for intervention of individual statements and three minutes for any statements on behalf of a group. So if you could please go ahead and then we can start making the list.","start":1765,"end":1802,"topics":[]},{"text":"Invito ahora, cedo la palabra a nuestro primer ponente principal, el Excelentísimo Héctor José Gómez Hernández, Representante Permanente de España ante las Naciones Unidas, a que formule una declaración.","start":1803,"end":1818,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":10,"start":1820,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=1820","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchas gracias, señor Presidente, Embajador Benkosme, a todos los panelistas, especialmente al USG Li Junhua por su liderazgo en las políticas de desarrollo.","start":1820,"end":1831,"topics":[]},{"text":"España agradece la celebración de esta sesión, particularmente oportuna en un momento en el que acumulamos retrasos significativos en el cumplimiento de los ODS y enfrentamos un contexto geopolítico complejo e incierto.","start":1831,"end":1843,"topics":[]},{"text":"Este debate no puede entenderse de manera aislada, forma parte de una conversación más amplia sobre la necesidad de preservar y fortalecer un multilateralismo eficaz, inclusivo y orientado a resultados.","start":1844,"end":1856,"topics":[]},{"text":"Para España, la cuestión de que hoy nos ocupa se sitúa precisamente en el corazón de ese esfuerzo.","start":1857,"end":1862,"topics":[]},{"text":"La Agenda 2030 constituye un compromiso colectivo con las personas y el planeta, pero para traducirse en resultados concretos debe sustentarse en un sistema de ejecución sólido con presencia sobre el terreno, capacidad de coordinación y recursos adecuados.","start":1863,"end":1874,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"España ha aprobado recientemente su nueva Estrategia de Política Multilateral para el Desarrollo Sostenible, que identifica a las Naciones Unidas como un socio prioritario. En coherencia con ello, hemos incrementado sustancialmente nuestras contribuciones básicas a los principales fondos y programas.","start":1875,"end":1889,"topics":[]},{"text":"Asimismo, defendemos una financiación menos fragmentada, reforzando el papel de los fondos mancomunados y apostando por el Fondo Conjunto ODS y el SPTF como pilares esenciales para apuntalar el liderazgo de los coordinadores residentes. Sin embargo, fortalecer la financiación del sistema multilateral, siendo indispensable, no será suficiente.","start":1890,"end":1909,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. 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This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Ello exige fortalecer las capacidades fiscales nacionales, mejorar la progresividad y la eficiencia de los sistemas tributarios, combatir los flujos financieros ilícitos y garantizar que la financiación internacional, pública y privada, responda a las prioridades nacionales de desarrollo sostenible.","start":1920,"end":1936,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. 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Complementa los acuerdos intergubernamentales mediante la movilización de coaliciones de gobiernos, organizaciones internacionales, bancos de desarrollo, sector privado y sociedad civil en torno a iniciativas voluntarias de alto impacto, concebidas para generar resultados tangibles y medibles en ámbitos como el desarrollo sostenible, la sostenibilidad de la deuda o la reforma de la arquitectura financiera internacional.","start":1992,"end":2033,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Señor Presidente, para finalizar, disponemos de los instrumentos, de los compromisos y del conocimiento necesario para acelerar el cumplimiento de los ODS. Lo que se requiere ahora, lo que se requiere ahora es voluntad política, capacidad de cooperación y determinación para cumplir lo acordado. Muchas gracias.","start":2034,"end":2050,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Héctor José Gómez Hernández","affiliation":"ESP","affiliation_full":"Spain","group":null,"function":"Representante Permanente"}},{"statement_number":11,"start":2053,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2053","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchísimas gracias al Representante Permanente de España por su intervención.","start":2053,"end":2058,"topics":[]},{"text":"Doy ahora la palabra al distinguido representante del Reino Unido.","start":2059,"end":2065,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":12,"start":2074,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2074","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Chair, um, and to all the panelists for your contributions to this discussion.","start":2074,"end":2082,"topics":[]},{"text":"We welcome this important discussion and believe strongly that the need to mobilize domestic and external financing, particularly through IFI engagement, is absolutely central to reducing fragmentation at the country level and create synergies across all development work.","start":2083,"end":2093,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."},{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"The UK has consistently argued that greater coherence across the UN development system is central to better results for all. If country teams are to support governments effectively on development finance, they need to work in a more integrated, collaborative and practical way, with a clear focus on reducing fragmentation and backing nationally-led solutions.","start":2094,"end":2112,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"These commitments were made in Seville, and the UK agrees we should now translate these into tangible action. Reducing duplication and supporting better join-up between IFIs and the UN in country is the most effective way to deliver this end.","start":2113,"end":2126,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"I wish to raise two key points with the panel in this regard.","start":2128,"end":2131,"topics":[]},{"text":"First, the QCPR underscored the need for greater coherence between UN development system and IFIs. However, with only around 60% of governments reporting that the UN development system support is being highly effective or effective in strengthening national capacities to unlock financing for sustainable development goals, much work is needed to ensure that this necessary coherence is achieved. What are the key shifts that the panel would like to see delivered upon that would meaningfully shift the dial on this aspect?","start":2132,"end":2159,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Second, it was also concerning to note that the SG's report states that only 40% of resident coordinators described country team support as effective in mobilizing and aligning financing with the goals. What would good look like in respect to country team support in this area and how can this be standardized across UN country teams? Thank you.","start":2161,"end":2179,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":null,"affiliation":"GBR","affiliation_full":"United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","group":null,"function":"Representative"}},{"statement_number":13,"start":2181,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2181","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Doy las gracias al distinguido representante de Reino Unido. Cedo ahora la palabra al distinguido representante de México.","start":2181,"end":2187,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":14,"start":2201,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2201","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchas gracias, señor Vicepresidente. Agradecemos participar en este intercambio.","start":2201,"end":2209,"topics":[]},{"text":"Nosotros quisiéramos destacar nuestra intervención en el contexto de la transformación digital, lo cual representa una oportunidad significativa para acelerar el cumplimiento de la Agenda 2030.","start":2210,"end":2225,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"No obstante, cerrar las brechas digitales y de datos requiere ir más allá de la expansión de la conectividad, y debemos evaluar si el sistema de Naciones Unidas está apoyando efectivamente a los países conforme con sus prioridades nacionales para aprovechar las tecnologías digitales, incluida la inteligencia artificial, como herramientas de desarrollo sostenible.","start":2226,"end":2248,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"En este sentido, debemos considerar algunos aspectos fundamentales como el fortalecimiento de las capacidades digitales, el desarrollo de infraestructura pública digital segura, la promoción de bienes públicos digitales, la transparencia y el uso responsable de tecnologías emergentes para acelerar con el logro de los ODS.","start":2249,"end":2268,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"Por razones de tiempo, me voy a reducir un poco más la intervención.","start":2271,"end":2277,"topics":[]},{"text":"Para nosotros, las economías emergentes no deben ser consideradas únicamente como usuarias, mercados o espacios de prueba para tecnologías desarrolladas en otros contextos. Deben ser socias en la generación de conocimiento, innovación y soluciones adaptadas a sus realidades y necesidades.","start":2278,"end":2296,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"Sin la calidad de datos y sin una gobernanza adecuada, la inteligencia artificial corre el riesgo de reproducir desigualdades existentes, generar nuevas dependencias tecnológicas y limitar la capacidad de los Estados para adoptar decisiones informadas en beneficio de sus sociedades. Gracias.","start":2299,"end":2315,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":null,"affiliation":"MEX","affiliation_full":"Mexico","group":null,"function":"Representante"}},{"statement_number":15,"start":2319,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2319","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Doy las gracias al representante de México. Cedo ahora la palabra a la distinguida representante de Canadá.","start":2319,"end":2325,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":16,"start":2330,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2330","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Mr. Vice-President. We welcome this discussion and the rich country-level perspectives that have been offered by the panelists. We wish to share some of our reflections.","start":2330,"end":2338,"topics":[]},{"text":"To start, the real test of FfD4 will be our ability to translate its ambition into concrete results on the ground, especially for countries facing fiscal constraints and rising debt pressures.","start":2339,"end":2348,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"In that context, the UN development system already brings a lot to the table. It offers a wide range of support at country level, from integrated policy advice to capacity development, and importantly, the ability to convene governments alongside IFIs, civil society and the private sector around national priorities.","start":2349,"end":2364,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"One area where we've seen strong traction is with Integrated National Financing Frameworks. They are proving to be a practical and scalable tool to help countries better align financing within their development objectives.","start":2365,"end":2376,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"There's a clear opportunity to build on that success by supporting more countries to develop INFFs and deepen engagement with other development actors, including MDBs, in the elaboration and implementation of financing strategies.","start":2377,"end":2388,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"At the same time, strengthening the linkages between INFFs and country platforms can further improve coordination on the ground. And this is where RCs can play a critical role, not only in convening partners, but also in supporting more tailored, country-specific solutions that reflect national circumstances and priorities.","start":2389,"end":2405,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"In this vein, there's also an opportunity for RCs and the broader UN development system to strengthen donor coordination, helping to reduce fragmentation and promote greater synergies across the donor landscape.","start":2406,"end":2415,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Taken together, a more integrated approach can help mobilize a broader range of financing, improve coherence and strengthen implementation, while keeping countries firmly in the driver's seat.","start":2416,"end":2426,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"Looking ahead, it will be important to continue positioning the UN development system as a connector and an integrator. Its comparative advantage lies in its convening power and its ability to bring actors together across the system.","start":2427,"end":2442,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"And that also means being clear about roles. The UN should avoid duplicating highly specialized technical work where others, particularly IFIs, have clear expertise.","start":2442,"end":2450,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. 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The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":null,"affiliation":"CAN","affiliation_full":"Canada","group":null,"function":"Representative"}},{"statement_number":17,"start":2468,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2468","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Nuestro agradecimiento a la distinguida representante de Canadá. Cedo ahora la palabra al distinguido representante de Guatemala.","start":2468,"end":2475,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":18,"start":2479,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2479","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Señor Vicepresidente, Guatemala considera que acelerar el cumplimiento de los ODS exige aprovechar mejor los medios de implementación en tres fuentes complementarias: financiamiento, datos e innovación.","start":2479,"end":2493,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"Se requiere una movilización más estratégica de recursos internos y externos, con mayor articulación entre el sistema de las Naciones Unidas, los gobiernos, las instituciones financieras internacionales y otros socios, para reducir la fragmentación y apoyar respuestas integradas a los países.","start":2493,"end":2511,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."},{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Asimismo, cerrar la brecha digital y de datos es esencial para fortalecer la formulación de políticas basadas en evidencia, con herramientas que mejoren la trazabilidad, el seguimiento y la integración con sistemas nacionales.","start":2511,"end":2522,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Muchas gracias, señor Vicepresidente.","start":2522,"end":2535,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":null,"affiliation":"GTM","affiliation_full":"Guatemala","group":null,"function":"Representante"}},{"statement_number":19,"start":2544,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2544","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchas gracias al distinguido representante de Guatemala. Cedo ahora la palabra al distinguido representante de Nepal.","start":2544,"end":2551,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":20,"start":2555,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2555","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Mr. President. Let me begin by thanking the distinguished panelists for their substantive presentation.","start":2555,"end":2562,"topics":[]},{"text":"Let me highlight the following points. First, the UN development system should strengthen the country-led Integrated Financing Framework and ensure that the outcomes of the Seville commitment are translated into operational support tailored to national development priorities.","start":2563,"end":2579,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"Developing countries, particularly the countries in special situation, require greater support to expand fiscal space, reduce debt vulnerabilities, mobilize domestic resources, access affordable financing and build resilience against external shocks.","start":2579,"end":2594,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"As the Secretary-General highlighted in his report on QCPR, financing mechanism must be crisis-responsive and capable of addressing the impact of such external shocks for LDCs and vulnerable countries.","start":2595,"end":2605,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Second, stronger partnership between the United Nations development system and IFIs should be further strengthened to reduce fragmentation and maximize development impact at the country level.","start":2606,"end":2615,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"The UN's convening power can build synergies of diverse actors around nationally owned development pathways, ensuring that financing, policy advice and technical support complement in a coherent and mutually reinforcing manner.","start":2616,"end":2628,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"Third, financing localization of SDGs is crucial. Nepal's experience with federal governance has reinforced the importance of empowering local governments with adequate resources, capacities and financing mechanisms.","start":2629,"end":2642,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"We encourage the UN development system and IFIs to further support subnational planning, budgeting and implementation so that financing translates into tangible results for people on the ground.","start":2643,"end":2653,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"Fourth, closing the digital and data divide is as critical as closing the financing gap. The countries need support not only in digital infrastructure but also in building national capacities for data governance, statistics, AI literacy and evidence-based policymaking.","start":2654,"end":2668,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"UN expertise should be accessible on demand through strengthened regional platforms, knowledge hubs and digital collaboration mechanisms.","start":2669,"end":2679,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Finally, sustainable progress on Agenda 2030 depends on strong national institutions and national ownership. The countries should be better equipped to finance and sustain their own development pathways. This reflects the SG's call for a more coherent, country-focused UN development system anchored in national priorities and cooperation frameworks.","start":2680,"end":2696,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. 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While the IMF is not a part of the UNDS, the IMF places importance on collaboration with the UN as a specialized agency of the wider UN system.","start":2710,"end":2720,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. 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The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"It also notes that the UN is a key partner and that IMF resident representatives should actively engage with UN partners.","start":2732,"end":2741,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"In this vein, we would like to highlight a few recent examples of close collaboration between IMF and UN staff.","start":2742,"end":2746,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"First, Sudan. Before 2023, the IMF resident representative maintained active engagement with the RC and UN agencies. Collaboration mainly focused on food security and forced displacement issues, informing the IMF approach on social spending.","start":2747,"end":2759,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Moreover, the IMF has worked closely with the UNDP to coordinate technical assistance delivery to avoid duplications.","start":2760,"end":2767,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"And IMF-UNFPA collaboration has helped secure World Bank-AfDB financial pledges to advance the DRC's first general census since 1984.","start":2817,"end":2824,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Fourth, Haiti. IMF staff has partnered with the Haitian authorities, UN agencies and other partners for the 2024 rapid crisis impact assessment for crisis response and recovery planning.","start":2825,"end":2834,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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Thank you.","start":2845,"end":2849,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":null,"affiliation":"IMF","affiliation_full":"IMF","group":null,"function":"Representative"}},{"statement_number":23,"start":2851,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2851","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Nuestro agradecimiento al representante del Fondo Monetario Internacional. Cedemos la ahora la palabra a el representante de Children and Youth International.","start":2851,"end":2857,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":24,"start":2864,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=2864","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Chair, for the floor. Amurpan Patel speaking on behalf of the Major Group for Children and Youth. Excellencies, more than 3 trillion dollars were spent on military and war last year, and yet we are repeatedly told that there are insufficient resources to fund the UN and deliver the SDGs. The contrast could not be more glaring, and we recommend the following.","start":2864,"end":2885,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"First, no reform is complete without the reform of the international financial architecture. Rising debt burdens and illicit financial flows and the misalignment of development finance with internationally agreed priorities continue to undermine SDG progress. In the lead-up to the next SDG Summit, we call on the ECOSOC to initiate an intergovernmental process towards a convention on sovereign debt as a prerequisite to any post-2030 framework.","start":2886,"end":2912,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]},{"text":"Second, UN 80 proposals on the UN country teams as well as the next QCPR must address the fundamental question on improving country-level programming and delivery, especially on climate change. We call for a more thematic and integrated review approach in the next QCPR cycle focused on collective outcomes and system-wide support to national priorities rather than entity-specific interventions.","start":2913,"end":2937,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Thirdly, we call for strengthening the role of ECOSOC and the HLPF in governing means of implementation across the Agenda 2030 and related frameworks through an annual full-scope review of SDG 17, stronger engagement with MDBs and DFIs on ECOSOC recommendations and better alignment between cooperation frameworks and country-level financing decisions. It is the time to fund books over bombs and safeguard people and the planet over the perpetual military-industrial complex. I thank you.","start":2938,"end":2967,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. 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I will offer some thoughts today on how to bridge the data divide to leverage the means of implementations.","start":2982,"end":2993,"topics":[]},{"text":"The UN SDG Chair report identifies data quality and interoperability as a persistent weakness in cooperation framework planners. That weakness has a human cost. We welcome the UN system Data Commons proposal. That is the right approach, but its impact will be determined not by its launch date, but by its design choices.","start":2994,"end":3016,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Disaggregation in accordance with SDG target 17.18 is therefore a non-negotiable.","start":3039,"end":3078,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"With all of this in mind, we urge you to: one, close the last-mile data gap, incentivizing collection on the hardest-to-reach populations.","start":3091,"end":3101,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Thank you.","start":3112,"end":3123,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Maria Paula","affiliation":"Outright International","affiliation_full":"Outright International","group":"LGBTI Stakeholder Group","function":"Representative"}},{"statement_number":27,"start":3125,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=3125","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"We thank the distinguished representative of Outright Action International. We have heard the last speaker of the interactive discussion and now invite the distinguished panelists to respond to the comments made and questions posed. You have one minute if I.","start":3125,"end":3141,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":28,"start":3146,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=3146","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Well, that's a challenge. Thank you. Thank you, Vice-President. I hope that I can answer the some questions within one minute. But just I, I think that just now the UK, UK representative raised the two questions.","start":3146,"end":3160,"topics":[]},{"text":"Let me just give you a very briefly the example, two examples, how the UN system mobilized with, mobilized domestic resources with the IFIs.","start":3161,"end":3176,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"In, the first, the first one is resilient bonds. And our colleagues in UN DESA, UNDRR joined forces with the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean to bring a new resilient bond to the market for the first time, channeling 100 US dollars in the new investment towards the disaster preparedness.","start":3178,"end":3200,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. 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Um, one minute, right?","start":3281,"end":3286,"topics":[]},{"text":"So, uh, just to follow up on the questions posed by the UK, I think one of them was how can we achieve that needed greater coherence? What key shifts would we need to see? So just to reiterate some things that have been said in this panel and other panels. One is the incentive system. We find that the incentives are pulling us apart sometimes and not bringing us together. So there's work at all levels to be done on incentives.","start":3287,"end":3312,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"And the other is procedures. It's work in progress, there have been efforts made, but the different agencies and definitely the agencies and the IFIs and other stakeholders have different procedures that don't necessarily talk to each other very easily or very well. So, you know, we need to be committed and when I was referring in my remarks to like a new generation of IFI-government-UN modalities of working together, we really need to look at those procedures that don't talk to each other and make them talk to each other so that things can flow better if there is the will to collaborate more. So just to mention a couple of things.","start":3313,"end":3349,"topics":[{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. 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Uh, the funding compacts that are directed towards SDG implementation, they have to be the main guide of funding from UN agencies and other actors on the ground, um, to, to raise that percentage that you, that you referenced.","start":3350,"end":3377,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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So I just want to emphasize that we think that's part of the answer to a lot of these challenges.","start":3410,"end":3445,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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So thank you very much for your very constructive comments and the perspective of the countries and other organizations.","start":3465,"end":3479,"topics":[]},{"text":"I think there are very concrete interactions that we can help the countries, how we can interact together.","start":3481,"end":3491,"topics":[]},{"text":"So, for example, between the MDBs, we are now relying more and more on each other processes and standards in order for countries, especially the small countries, the small islands, that will not need to approach each organization by themselves and follow the processes of each organization.","start":3492,"end":3515,"topics":[]},{"text":"So, for example, we are now in the process of having full mutual reliance with the World Bank, which means that if a country starts with the IDB and wants a financing from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank wants to participate, the World Bank will use our processes, will not need to duplicate them.","start":3516,"end":3536,"topics":[]},{"text":"As I mentioned before also, we are now having framework agreements with the UN agencies, which means that we don't need to have cumbersome rules, we accept the rules we have approached and made it very consistent how we can work with countries when we work with the UN agencies.","start":3537,"end":3561,"topics":[]},{"text":"In terms of mobilization, this is a crucial element. How we're going to mobilize more resources.","start":3562,"end":3569,"topics":[]},{"text":"We have been working on originate to share. This is a system, an initiative where our bank, in particular our private sector arm, the IDB Invest, will continue originate the project. We are close to the countries. However, we will not keep these projects in our balance sheets and we will distribute, we will share these projects with institutional investors.","start":3570,"end":3602,"topics":[]},{"text":"And we are proposing a Reinvest Plus, which is where our local financial system originate the assets and we package these assets and we sell them to institutional investors so that the local institutions can again lend with a fresh balance sheet.","start":3603,"end":3628,"topics":[]},{"text":"So the whole idea is to crowd in the private sector through our comparative advantage, which is we are close to the countries, we can originate, we can be better at giving guarantees to the projects that we have. Thank you very much.","start":3629,"end":3646,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Ilan Goldfajn","affiliation":"IDB","affiliation_full":"IDB","group":null,"function":"President"}},{"statement_number":32,"start":3647,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=3647","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Mr. Goldfajn.","start":3647,"end":3648,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":33,"start":3651,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=3651","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"No, thank you so much. Unsurprisingly, of course, a lot of what my colleague Julia has said I would ascribe to and not go deeper into, but just to say ultimately good practice would be about going beyond just having a common framework or even an INFF, but actually seeing partners moving together. So not only the UN system moving with each other, the entities together, but also the development partners and bringing in private sector so that we're moving from dialogue, policy to investment pipelines and actual delivery of interventions. And this is something that in the South African context, where the challenge is less about the availability of capital but the alignment of capital and the fiscal space constraints, that if we're working together and the incentives and the behaviors are also addressed, then we will make a bigger impact. Thank you.","start":3651,"end":3703,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. 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The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Nelson Muffuh","affiliation":"ZAF","affiliation_full":"South Africa","group":null,"function":"Resident Coordinator"}},{"statement_number":34,"start":3704,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=3704","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you very much. We have reached the end of the first panel. I would like to thank the guest speakers and all the delegations for the very fruitful and valuable contributions. I'm now going to brief, pause briefly, I'm going to pause briefly the meeting to allow for the podium to be rearranged for the next interactive discussion. Please remain seated.","start":3704,"end":3725,"topics":[]},{"text":"Invito ahora al Consejo a celebrar la mesa redonda que lleva por título Reducir la brecha digital y de datos: cómo aprovechar la inteligencia artificial y otros avances tecnológicos para formular políticas con base empírica.","start":3820,"end":3835,"topics":[]},{"text":"Los avances en la inteligencia artificial, la infraestructura digital, la prospectiva y las ciencias del comportamiento están transformando la formulación y la implementación de políticas de desarrollo. Este panel examinará cómo el sistema de las Naciones Unidas para el desarrollo está traduciendo los avances en materia de datos, inteligencia artificial y tecnologías emergentes en mejoras concretas de capacidades para los países en desarrollo.","start":3836,"end":3863,"topics":[]},{"text":"Invitamos a los ponentes a compartir sus perspectivas sobre el fortalecimiento de los ecosistemas nacionales de datos, la promoción de una implementación de los ODS basada en la evidencia mediante iniciativas de datos a nivel de todo el sistema y la garantía de que los avances tecnológicos respalden las prioridades de los ODS a nivel nacional, guiados por los principios de interoperabilidad, soberanía de los datos y apropiación nacional.","start":3864,"end":3895,"topics":[]},{"text":"Me complace dar la bienvenida a nuestros panelistas para este debate, la señora Pauline Tamesis, Coordinadora Residente de Vietnam, y la señora Alégra Baiocchi, Coordinadora Residente de México.","start":3896,"end":3909,"topics":[]},{"text":"También doy la bienvenida a los ponentes de este panel, Su Excelencia la señora Egriselda López, Representante Permanente de El Salvador ante las Naciones Unidas, y Su Excelencia señor Harish Parvathaneni, Representante Permanente de la India ante las Naciones Unidas.","start":3910,"end":3927,"topics":[]},{"text":"En primer lugar, cedo la palabra a la señora Pauline Tamesis, Coordinadora Residente de Vietnam para que formule una declaración, por favor.","start":3929,"end":3937,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":35,"start":3941,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=3941","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Chair, Excellencies, distinguished members of the panel, it's a privilege to share Vietnam's experience on bridging the digital and data divide and how the UN development system is supporting this transformation. Vietnam offers an encouraging example of both progress and complexity in the digital era.","start":3941,"end":3959,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"With strong political commitment, the country has positioned science, technology, innovation and digital transformation at the center of its development strategy. Investments in digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence and e-government have made Vietnam one of ASEAN's digital frontrunners.","start":3960,"end":3978,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Fragmentation across institutions, limited interoperability, uneven digital skills and risks of exclusion for vulnerable groups continue to constrain progress.","start":3979,"end":3998,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"This points to a key lesson. Bridging the digital divide is not only about technology, it is about governance, institutions, skills, trust and inclusion. In this context, the UN development system in Vietnam is working closely with national partners to translate advances in data and AI into practical capacity gains for policymaking and delivering development results.","start":3999,"end":4022,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"First, we are supporting the modernization of the national statistical system, including greater use of administrative data, digital mapping and integrated data systems, producing more timely and policy-relevant evidence.","start":4023,"end":4039,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"Second, we are strengthening interoperability and data sharing across institutions. A good example is the civil registration and vital statistics system supported by UNFPA, where collaboration across ministries has enabled Vietnam to generate its first national vital statistics report, demonstrating how administrative data can be transformed into actionable insights.","start":4040,"end":4063,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"Third, we are supporting the use of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence for policymaking. In Vietnam, AI-enabled applications through UNESCO support strengthen early warning systems for natural disasters, improve climate risk analysis and help identify vulnerable populations who might otherwise be left behind.","start":4064,"end":4084,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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At the enterprise level, AI-supported tools in manufacturing SMEs are improving productivity, increasing quality and enabling workers to transition to higher value tasks.","start":4085,"end":4106,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Digital transformation must be people-centered, ensuring that women, older persons, persons with disabilities, migrants and other vulnerable groups are visible in data systems and benefit from technological progress, and this speaks to the intervention by civil society in the earlier panel.","start":4135,"end":4155,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"Looking ahead, system-wide initiatives such as the UN system Data Commons can play a critical role. Data Commons can bring together diverse data sources into a unified, accessible evidence base, supporting more targeted policies and accelerating SDG delivery. At the same time, it enables more coherent cross-sectoral UN support to government. Importantly, it also opens the door to more anticipatory and adaptive governance, helping policymakers act earlier and more effectively in face of complex risks.","start":4166,"end":4198,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Third, and for us in the UN, crucially important, building trust, ethics and ensuring human rights, so that there is meaningful participation at the core of digital transformation.","start":4199,"end":4226,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Thank you.","start":4227,"end":4264,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Um, just to clarify, I was, I'm currently RC in Mexico, but until recently I was RC in Costa Rica, so I'll be speaking from both experiences. Thank you, Excellency.","start":4276,"end":4287,"topics":[]},{"text":"Digital technologies, as we've heard, are transforming governments, economies and societies. As resident coordinators, our role is to bring together the capabilities of the UN system and translate them into tangible results at country level. Our work revolves around three interconnected pillars: data, analysis and response.","start":4288,"end":4306,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"Data to understand where countries stand, analysis to identify risks, opportunities and priorities, response to accelerate sustainable development outcomes.","start":4307,"end":4319,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"But everything starts with data. What data is available, what data is missing, and how do we access timely, reliable data to inform national strategies and guide our work?","start":4321,"end":4332,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"With this in mind, in Mexico, we're transforming our common country analysis into a digital dashboard, bringing together data from multiple sources into a single platform. This tool will not only provide real-time insights, but also alert us when key indicators are moving in the right or wrong direction, enabling early warning, but more importantly, early action.","start":4333,"end":4358,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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That is why, as my colleague also mentioned, digital readiness assessments that are led by UNDP, ITU and UNESCO have become an important starting point for countries seeking to assess their own strengths, their gaps in digital transformation and identify practical pathways forward.","start":4416,"end":4442,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"Analysis, however, is only valuable if it leads to action. In Costa Rica, we established a UN Digital Innovation Lab to strengthen our own capacities and convene government, private sector and innovators around practical digital solutions.","start":4443,"end":4459,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Our first hackathon gave us Sofia Salud, an AI-enabled chatbot supporting the monitoring of adolescent pregnancies, led by UNFPA and UNICEF; Sima Cierre, a predictive environmental and infrastructure monitoring system led by UNOPS and UNIDO; and Tempi, a multimodal AI-based educational tutor designed to close learning gaps in rural areas led by UNESCO.","start":4460,"end":4491,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Rural communities, women, indigenous people and lower income populations must benefit from digital transformation, not be left behind.","start":4492,"end":4511,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Finally, digital transition and artificial intelligence are not only reshaping development, they are also redrawing the map of opportunity. As resident coordinators, it is our responsibility to ensure that national and regional perspectives help shape global digital debates. Working with the Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies, we have supported national and regional dialogues on AI governance in Latin America and the Caribbean, helping connect global processes with regional priorities.","start":4527,"end":4556,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"These conversations are essential to ensure that global frameworks reflect the needs, opportunities and challenges of all our member states.","start":4557,"end":4567,"topics":[]},{"text":"Your Excellencies, today my colleague and I have shared only a few examples of the data and digital solutions being developed at country level. I can assure you that resident coordinators around the world are working every day with governments and partners to develop tailored approaches that respond to national priorities and local realities.","start":4568,"end":4593,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"Ultimately, the role of resident coordinators and the UN development system in the digital space is straightforward. Data to understand, analysis to prioritize, response to deliver results. Through initiatives such as the UN Data Commons, knowledge hubs and expertise on demand, UN 80 offers a real opportunity to scale these capabilities across the system. I hope member states will give their full support to these initiatives and continue to empower resident coordinators and resident coordinators' offices, not as gatekeepers, but as gateways to a more connected, effective and impactful United Nations. Our objective is simple: to provide coherence instead of fragmentation, integrated solutions instead of isolated interventions, and to ensure that digital transformation advances national priorities and sustainable development outcomes. I thank you.","start":4594,"end":4643,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Por favor.","start":4651,"end":4662,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":39,"start":4668,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=4668","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Muchísimas gracias, señor Presidente, un gusto verlo moderando este importante debate en el que participo en nombre no solo de mi país, sino también en mi rol de copresidenta junto a Estonia del diálogo global sobre la gobernanza de la inteligencia artificial.","start":4668,"end":4688,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"Y precisamente el enfoque de este segmento es muy oportuno porque los Estados miembros han sido claros en que el sistema de Naciones Unidas para el desarrollo debe ser más coherente, más eficaz y estar más preparado para apoyar a los países en el cumplimiento de los ODS, y en este contexto los datos, la transformación digital y la IA no son agendas separadas o especializadas.","start":4689,"end":4709,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"Son habilitadores esenciales del desarrollo sostenible, de instituciones más sólidas y de servicios públicos que sean mejores. Y es a través del QCPR y de WSIS y también las recientes decisiones de la Asamblea General sobre IA que los Estados miembros han brindado una orientación clara para que el sistema de Naciones Unidas apoye a los países en el cierre de brechas digitales, en la creación de capacidades, en el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de datos y también en el aprovechamiento de la tecnología para el desarrollo sostenible.","start":4709,"end":4738,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"Entonces, nuestro enfoque debe ser cómo fortalecer la implementación y el impacto sobre el terreno, y desde nuestra perspectiva esto requiere tres prioridades.","start":4739,"end":4748,"topics":[]},{"text":"Primero, que el sistema de Naciones Unidas debe ayudar a los países a construir las bases para un desarrollo basado en evidencia, y esto significa contar con sistemas nacionales de datos más sólidos, un mejor uso de las estadísticas y, bueno, estos, entre otras cuestiones, son esenciales para una transformación digital efectiva y aprovechar los beneficios de la inteligencia artificial.","start":4749,"end":4771,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"Segundo, el apoyo debe ser integrado. Los países necesitan un apoyo sí en materia de datos, infraestructura pública, innovación, financiamiento, pero este apoyo debe ser articulado por todo el sistema de Naciones Unidas a través de los coordinadores residentes y el equipo de Naciones Unidas en consonancia con los planes nacionales y marcos de cooperación.","start":4772,"end":4792,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"Y tercero, el apoyo tecnológico debe de fortalecer las capacidades y las instituciones nacionales, es decir, asegurar que las soluciones digitales y de inteligencia artificial generen resultados sostenibles y duraderos.","start":4793,"end":4806,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"Y esto, Presidente, se vincula directamente con el diálogo sobre la gobernanza de la inteligencia artificial, que fue establecido como una plataforma de Naciones Unidas que involucra a los gobiernos, a todas las partes interesadas para apoyar una cooperación internacional, para compartir también lecciones y discutir cómo la IA puede contribuir al desarrollo sostenible y ayudar a cerrar las brechas digitales.","start":4807,"end":4828,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. 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Muchísimas gracias, Presidente.","start":4829,"end":4847,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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In recent years, digital technologies and artificial intelligence have emerged as critical enablers for sustainable development and evidence-based policymaking. The SG's QCPR report highlights the importance of data, digital innovation, foresight and behavioral science as part of the UN 2.0 quintet of change, and emphasizes the need for interoperable data systems, shared digital tools and AI-enabled solutions to strengthen development delivery.","start":4865,"end":4898,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"The Delhi Declaration that was adopted at the AI Impact Summit in February this year also underscored the need for inclusive, equitable and development-oriented AI governance, including bridging digital divides, strengthening capacity building and ensuring that countries of the Global South are able to fully participate in the global AI ecosystem.","start":4899,"end":4919,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"India strongly believes that digital transformation must be inclusive, it must be affordable, and it must be human-centric. Our experience demonstrates how digital public infrastructure can accelerate development outcomes at population scale. Our DPI ecosystem built on digital identity, digital payments and data sharing frameworks has transformed public service delivery and financial inclusion.","start":4921,"end":4942,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"For instance, Aadhaar has enabled secure digital identity for over a billion people, while the Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile framework has expanded access to banking, welfare and public services. It has been able to create the largest inclusion, especially of women, in the financial system, what would have normally taken over a decade has been achieved in the span of three to four years. Through direct benefit transfers, India has transferred billions of dollars to beneficiaries directly, with greater efficiency, transparency and almost nil leakages.","start":4943,"end":4979,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Today this system processes 22 billion transactions every month, and in the last financial year it has processed 240 billion transactions worth over 3 trillion dollars, demonstrating the scale and inclusivity of India's digital payments ecosystem.","start":4981,"end":5004,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"India is also increasingly leveraging AI for sustainable development. AI-based tools are supporting precision agriculture, climate resilience, disease screening, telemedicine and multilingual access to digital services. Given our linguistic diversity, AI-powered language technologies are helping bridge barriers of language and accessibility, ensuring that digital transformation does not exclude remote and vulnerable communities and takes all languages together.","start":5005,"end":5033,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. 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Capacity building therefore remains essential because the digital divide is rapidly becoming an AI divide.","start":5034,"end":5058,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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The QCPR funding report highlights a growing constraints on development financing and the risks posed by fragmented funding structures.","start":5068,"end":5082,"topics":[{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. This was framed as essential to protect social spending, strengthen resilience, and close the SDG financing gap."},{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. They help governments map financing flows, identify gaps, align public and private resources with national priorities, and improve decision-making for SDG implementation."}]},{"text":"Simply put, the future of development must be digitally empowered, but also equitable, inclusive and trusted. India is happy to continue sharing its DPI experience and working with partners to ensure that technology and AI become instruments of empowerment and sustainable development for all.","start":5083,"end":5100,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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And I would like just to remind that in order to allow sufficient time for everyone to participate, there will be a minute, a two-minute limit for individual statements and three minutes for statements on behalf of groups.","start":5108,"end":5134,"topics":[]},{"text":"I now give the floor to the distinguished representative of the United Kingdom.","start":5143,"end":5148,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":43,"start":5154,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=5154","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Chair, and to all the panelists and discussants for their insights so far. The case for leveraging data and AI is becoming ever stronger. While 2.2 billion people remain offline and the AI divide is widening, we are at risk of further entrenching global inequalities. The UK is clear that without the fundamentals, connectivity, data availability and digital literacy, countries cannot harness AI or use it effectively for policymaking.","start":5154,"end":5179,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."}]},{"text":"The UN development system has a clear role to play in this space, and there are many opportunities for the system itself to leverage these new technologies to enhance its work across the globe.","start":5180,"end":5189,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"As the panel has noted, the steps set out in UN 80 actions, including under work package 15, will be critical in allowing the UNDS to make the most of these opportunities. With this in mind, I have two brief questions.","start":5190,"end":5202,"topics":[]},{"text":"First, we welcome proposals around the technology accelerator program. The SG's QCPR report states that the platform will help identify common demand and develop solution portfolios. In this vein, what would an ideal online platform to enable the work on expertise on demand and shared digital ID solutions look like for RCs in practice once complete, and have you had any chance to feed into this process?","start":5204,"end":5229,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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I now give the floor to the distinguished representative of Mexico, following by Nepal.","start":5257,"end":5262,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":45,"start":5273,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=5273","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Gracias, señor Vicepresidente, y aprovecho la oportunidad para dar la bienvenida a la señora Baiocchi como nueva coordinadora residente en nuestro país, y agradecemos que haya podido compartir su amplia experiencia en este importante tema con la membresía.","start":5273,"end":5292,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"Una agenda que esté verdaderamente orientada a la innovación debe permitir que los países participen activamente en el diseño, desarrollo y gobernanza de las soluciones tecnológicas que impactan su desarrollo.","start":5314,"end":5327,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Ello exige datos representativos, interoperables y protegidos que estén sujetos a marcos de gobernanza claros y transparentes.","start":5328,"end":5355,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. They called for ethical, inclusive, and human-centered AI governance, alongside capacity building and safeguards to prevent new inequalities, dependencies, and harms."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"Para concluir, para en nuestra visión, sin datos de calidad y una gobernanza adecuada, la IA corre el riesgo de reproducir desigualdades existentes, generar nuevas dependencias tecnológicas y limitar la capacidad de los Estados para adoptar decisiones informadas en beneficio de nuestras sociedades. Por ello, fortalecer los ecosistemas nacionales de datos debe ser una prioridad central para el desarrollo sostenible. Muchas gracias, y la intervención íntegra se verá reflejada en UN.","start":5357,"end":5389,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. 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Cedo ahora la palabra a la distinguida representante de Nepal.","start":5392,"end":5398,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":47,"start":5402,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=5402","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Chair. From Nepal's perspective, I wish to highlight few points. First, strengthening national data ecosystems for evidence-based policymaking. The United Nations development system plays a vital role in supporting developing countries to build robust statistical systems, interoperable databases and institutional capacities for data governance. Nepal emphasizes the importance of integrated national data ecosystems that directly inform planning, budgeting and SDG implementation.","start":5402,"end":5426,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. They also stressed inclusion, privacy, transparency, and national ownership so that data can better support planning, accountability, and leaving no one behind."}]},{"text":"Second, advancing digital public infrastructure as a foundation for inclusive transformation. Digital public infrastructures can significantly enhance transparency, efficiency, inclusion and delivery. Stronger collaboration between the United Nations, international financial institutions and governments is essential to scale up these systems.","start":5427,"end":5444,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"un-ifi-partnerships","label":"UN–IFI Partnerships","description":"A major theme was the need for closer collaboration between the UN development system, international financial institutions, and multilateral development banks. Participants stressed that stronger partnerships can reduce fragmentation, combine financing with technical support, and improve delivery and impact at country level."}]},{"text":"Third, building AI and computing capacity linked to renewable energy systems to address the energy demand in AI. The next divide that's coming is the divide in the computing capacity divide. Compute infrastructures could dramatically lower barriers for innovators, enabling students, startups and universities and companies to build AI products locally.","start":5445,"end":5466,"topics":[{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. 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Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"So here, electricity is the single largest operating cost for AI data centers, and countries like Nepal possesses abundant hydropower resources capable of producing low-cost renewable electricity.","start":5467,"end":5480,"topics":[]},{"text":"While electricity prices in other countries range from 9 to 15 cents per kilowatt hour, Nepal's hydropower can potentially support compute infrastructure costs between 3 and 6 cents per kilowatt hour. Such infrastructure would support government digitization, data management in university startups and strengthen research institutions while also selling computing capacity globally.","start":5481,"end":5503,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."}]},{"text":"And coming to this guiding question, this is where the UN development system can support such government initiatives to translate advances in data, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies into concrete capacity gains for developing countries like Nepal. The UNDS can support such opportunities. Thank you.","start":5504,"end":5520,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"ai-governance","label":"Artificial Intelligence Governance","description":"Several speakers addressed the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence for sustainable development. 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Hemos escuchado la última intervención en este debate interactivo y a continuación invito a los distinguidos panelistas a responder a las observaciones y preguntas planteadas.","start":5522,"end":5534,"topics":[]},{"text":"Señora Tamesis.","start":5535,"end":5536,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":49,"start":5539,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=5539","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you for the inputs and I want to respond to the question raised by the UK. I think I'll start with the second question, what tangible impacts.","start":5539,"end":5549,"topics":[]},{"text":"I mentioned some of them, but maybe I use additional examples. One is to improve accountability. One existing program that is currently led by UNDP is a pioneer program called Public Administration Performance Index. It's a citizen feedback loop mechanism that measures performance on a number of indicators. Through this long-standing project, this has now been handed over for the government and for the government to take over.","start":5549,"end":5579,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"And they have embraced this as a way to ensure governance effectiveness, that they are delivering to the people that need it the most. So it is a very strong way to improve accountability and improve governance and participation, particularly in the context of Vietnam. Second example is on improving anticipatory action.","start":5580,"end":5599,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"For an upper-middle-income country such as Vietnam, which is still highly vulnerable to climate change, a lot of their development gains can easily be reversed through disasters. Anticipatory action, early warning systems allow for protecting those development gains by ensuring that you are able to relocate vulnerable households before disaster strikes and reduce the losses.","start":5600,"end":5630,"topics":[]},{"text":"In delivery of social protection, for example, data and digital systems allow for you to ensure that you have the most up-to-date list of beneficiaries and those who are most vulnerable that require receiving those benefits. These are just some, and I think this is just at the tip of the iceberg.","start":5631,"end":5649,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Through our common back office operations, what we have learned is that pulling a lot of the technology infrastructure within the house, shared by UN agencies, allowed us to reduce costs by at least a million dollars. It's just consolidating networks. So that's just a very small example. Imagine what it could do if you put that to the scale of the UN development system at large. Thank you very much.","start":5664,"end":5706,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. 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Señora Baiocchi.","start":5708,"end":5710,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":51,"start":5713,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=5713","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"No, I just want to maybe reiterate one of the things we've heard across a lot of the interventions, which is inclusion and equity. So the idea that data and digital transformation can enable incredible development solutions if, you know, we ensure that there's equity and inclusion. And I think this is where the UN system is focused, because we work in very different countries and the expert on demand and the pools of expertise that we will have will support exactly that, creating tailored solutions.","start":5713,"end":5742,"topics":[{"key":"digital-transformation","label":"Digital Transformation for Development","description":"Digital technologies were discussed as a key enabler of sustainable development, public service delivery, and evidence-based policymaking. Speakers referred to digital infrastructure, digital public goods, digital public infrastructure, and innovation platforms as tools to accelerate progress on the SDGs."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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I think we all work in countries where it's a struggle sometimes to have disaggregated data, which is the one that you need, you know, to again target and create tailored solutions to, you know, regional differences, inequalities that affect a lot of our countries. So data and policy support, but definitely the expertise that the UN system can bring, not only from within the country, but also, you know, whatever is available across the system. Thank you.","start":5764,"end":5807,"topics":[{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"This is a strong signal for system-wide uptake on the work of the office, as demonstrated by the two evaluations completed in 2025.","start":6510,"end":6522,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Firstly, the system-wide evaluation on progress towards a new generation of UN country teams found that the vision set out in resolution 72/279 for a new generation of United Nations country teams remains highly relevant and is increasingly significant in the context of the UN 80 initiative.","start":6524,"end":6545,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"The evaluation made seven strategic recommendations to: the UNSDG as a collective system-wide coordination body; to UNSDG entities individually; to the Development Coordination Office and UN DESA; and also recommendations for consideration of member states. The management response for this evaluation was published in December last year.","start":6597,"end":6624,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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The management response was published in May.","start":6704,"end":6719,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"In 2025, our office worked actively both within the United Nations and beyond, including with MOPAN, to promote the use of system-wide evaluation evidence in decision-making processes, providing extensive briefings to United Nations entities and to member states in reflection of the many UN 80 work packages that are informed by our evidence.","start":6720,"end":6746,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Member states are therefore encouraged to support the shift to adequate and predictable resourcing, which is fundamental to the independence, credibility and effectiveness of this critical system-wide accountability function.","start":6777,"end":6791,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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I thank you.","start":6793,"end":6813,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Andrea Cook","affiliation":"UNSDG","affiliation_full":"UNSDG","group":null,"function":"Executive Director"}},{"statement_number":54,"start":6095,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=6095","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"I thank the executive director, and now invite the Council to hold a panel discussion on UN system evaluations. I first give the floor to Mr. Arnaud Peral, resident coordinator in the Philippines to make a statements. You have the floor.","start":6095,"end":6111,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":55,"start":6836,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=6836","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Vice-President, Mr. Chair, distinguished colleagues, members of of the panel, representative of member states. Thank you so much for for your attention this last session. I'll try to be brief and and to the point.","start":6836,"end":6858,"topics":[]},{"text":"And thank you to my colleague for the presentation on on the system-wide evaluation. We need evidences. We need evidences as resident coordinators, because we are questioned all the time. Give us the evidence. You are asking us for to to provide that.","start":6859,"end":6883,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"We are asking, we are asked by civil society, by the media, by the government we we served, by the private sector. We need evidences. We need analysis.","start":6884,"end":6897,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"And this is what those um reports that have been uh asked to the the office of evaluation to to provide to us. And this is this is what we are discussing today.","start":6898,"end":6914,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"In in the Philippines, um we really welcome the the last evaluation on the new generation of UNCTs because it it gives at the same time reassuring points and also challenges of what remains to be to be done.","start":6915,"end":6934,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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Uh on some important issues like for instance in the the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao where there have been a terrible conflict for decades.","start":6935,"end":6961,"topics":[]},{"text":"Uh we can see now evidences of a whole of UN approach working together bringing the dividends of peace, connecting sustainable development, SDGs programming and working all all together uh also tackling humanitarian needs. And this whole of UN approach would have been very impossible before linking humanitarian peace and and development together. Now we have we have this approach.","start":6962,"end":6994,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Uh another example is uh last year a a landmark uh law that has been approved and signed by the President of the Philippines, it's the Declaration of State of Imminent Disaster Act. It's it's a landmark law uh that will uh adopt an anticipatory action lens. It will allow the country to declare national emergency uh up to 48 hours before a typhoon or a disaster happen in the country unlocking some resources,","start":6995,"end":7022,"topics":[]},{"text":"protecting lives, protecting assets and enabling everybody to to act earlier as with a prevention lens. And this is uh a law where the whole system, the whole UN system came together with civil society, with government officials to advocate for such an instrument with the lead of WFP but also FAO um and the all the whole system came together advocating for this law that has been has been approved.","start":7023,"end":7054,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Uh but again, I mean those examples uh are great but we need independent evaluations to to make uh those case more compelling and more impactful and to be replicated elsewhere.","start":7055,"end":7072,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Uh too often our incentives are still vertical. Agencies are asked to report to their own headquarters and head executive boards, uh raise their own resources, protect their own visibility and deliver their own indicators. It is understandable but accountability for joint results like those I was mentioning before needs to be more widely celebrated and enabled by a strong national leadership which is the case in the Philippine and aligned visions between member states at executive boards level.","start":7073,"end":7106,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"So this is why system-wide evaluation matters. It tells us very honestly uh whether the cooperation framework is really guiding our work. It tells us whether the government sees the UN as one coherent partner. It tells us whether our joint work is changing lives.","start":7107,"end":7123,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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As many of you know more than I do about UN 80 by now, I will focus on sharing insights from my own experience in Uruguay. An experience of unity of the UN country team, of trust and not an experience of fragmentation.","start":7168,"end":7189,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Uruguay is a high-income country and that requires a lot of humility. Every dollar that we spend as the UN in the country has to be compared with about 2,000 dollars of GDP of the of Uruguay. So this gives us an idea of the importance to follow government priorities. This means basically that you know our support from a financial perspective is pretty marginal.","start":7190,"end":7215,"topics":[]},{"text":"Yet the UN contribution is vital in other ways: technical advice, support to 2030 Agenda, normative guidance and connecting Uruguay with the world, etc. Today the UN country team in Uruguay is not just a group of professionals. It is a group of friends working with a shared objective.","start":7216,"end":7236,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"That spirit is largely the result of UN reform that you mandated as member states. Evaluation and learning are central to our work. We take them very seriously. Collectively we have decided not only to evaluate our cooperation framework but also to conduct a mid-term review a year earlier.","start":7237,"end":7256,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"This mid-term review was not a mandatory thing. We did it because we wanted to reflect in how we could work better together. Once we have done that, we have conducted a formal evaluation of the country framework and we follow corporate parameters and produce valuable management recommendations, a management response and more than 50% of these, you know, commitments have been already implemented, the rest are underway.","start":7257,"end":7285,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"It is important to say as well that this evaluation, it is for many of the agencies working in Uruguay the only structured opportunity to reflect on their work and improve effectiveness. That said, on the less positive side, we conducted four evaluations simultaneously: the country framework and three evaluations of CPDs, which the government did not particularly appreciate at the time because they felt it was too much. Ideally we should aim for a single evaluation with specific focus areas.","start":7286,"end":7312,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Despite these challenges our UN country team, this group of friends I mentioned before, has achieved remarkable things together, often in spite of the current incentive system rather than because of it. We have engaged in discussions about the country economic and social future, poverty, experimented new avenues for sustainable financing, advancing joint work in gender, leaving no one behind and also advise the government on development risks.","start":7313,"end":7344,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Yet as the evaluation of the new generation of UN country team demonstrates, the UN at its best still faces an invisible adversary: misaligned incentives. This invite us to reflect across all forums where these issues are debated, including ECOSOC but also, you know, government bodies, this oversight that Andrea mentioned in the recommendations.","start":7345,"end":7364,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Agency professionals in the field are often required to deliver on internal indicators that risk distorting decision-making. So the messages that you pass are very, very important. I wonder how I wonder how much more we could have accomplished if those incentives were properly aligned. Together the UN country team in Uruguay analyze, plan, act and evaluate our work together,","start":7365,"end":7390,"topics":[]},{"text":"exactly I think what member state ask us to do under the reform. However, the relevance of this work has to be evaluated externally and has also to be evaluated above all by the government assessment of our collective performance. Finally, I would like to conclude with a request, that the work of this evaluation office and all the evaluation of the UN continues and is strengthened.","start":7391,"end":7413,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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The Republic of Korea would like to express its appreciation for the work of UN SDG system-wide evaluation in conducting independent evaluations of the collective performance of the UNDS. We believe the office's role will be particularly crucial in the context of the ongoing UN 80 discussions.","start":7486,"end":7510,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"The ultimate goal of evaluation is to improve programs and field delivery. Therefore, it is critical not only to generate evidence for strategic decision-making, but also to ensure that evaluation findings are translated into tangible improvements at the country level, thereby contributing to the achievement of the SDGs.","start":7511,"end":7534,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"In this regard, the Republic of Korea believes that fostering an evaluation-friendly culture across the UNDS is essential. Such a culture would help embed evaluation findings into the organizational processes and decision-making. It would also strengthen collective learning, enhance development programs and facilitate the effective allocation of limited resources to the areas of greatest need.","start":7535,"end":7557,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Lastly, we believe that securing sustainable and predictable financing for the office remains important. Continued efforts by the office will also be critical in this regard. 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The UK very much commends the work undertaken by the system-wide evaluation office and was proud to help fund their work over the last year. Independent system-wide evaluation is a vital part of ensuring a credible, effective and accountable UN development system, one that genuinely learns from evidence and adapts its approach for the greatest impact.","start":7596,"end":7619,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"The system-wide evaluation office provides clear and valuable insights on system-level issues which cannot be adequately captured through entity-level reviews alone. In doing so, it fills a critical gap in accountability and learning.","start":7620,"end":7631,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Recent evaluations illustrate this contribution well. In particular, the evaluation on the new generation of UN country teams showed both where reform had delivered improvements around strategic planning and the resident coordinator system and where gaps remain between ambition and implementation.","start":7632,"end":7647,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."},{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"The recommendations it made for a revitalized, strategic, flexible and results and action-oriented cooperation frameworks were timely and made clear the need to enhance delivery to strengthen implementation, build transparency and reduce transaction costs. It's encouraging that many of the recommendations from this report are reflected in the SG's UN 80 initiative in work packages across workstream 3. The UK supports these inclusions and looks forward to seeing them brought into action.","start":7648,"end":7675,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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Does the system-wide evaluation office plan to provide further bespoke insights to the specific work packages where their recommendations are included?","start":7676,"end":7685,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"And secondly, the UK's proud to have been chair of MOPAN this year and thanks the system-wide evaluation office for their participation in a UK-hosted side event with MOPAN at OAS last year. How have the links between MOPAN and system-wide evaluation office work been strengthened in the last year and what plans, if any, are there for further collaboration in the future? Thank you.","start":7686,"end":7705,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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Ireland is very happy to support the work of the sector-wide evaluation office given the importance that we attach to sector-wide approaches and coherence on the one hand and the accountability and learning that comes from good evaluation on the other.","start":7717,"end":7743,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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The management responses are an integral part of that, committing as they do to the management of the relevant entities and taking those recommendations to action and joint action on areas that may need adjustment, improvement or further analysis and work.","start":7761,"end":7785,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"We as UN member states should also be utilizing the evaluations and the recommendations in our own processes, in the management responsibilities that we have and the decision-making that we have, be it at ECOSOC, at the executive boards, in the General Assembly committees and elsewhere. The work leading to the SDG review next year, for example, will be important in that regard as well.","start":7786,"end":7811,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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México agradece la presentación del informe y reconoce la labor que realiza la función de evaluación del sistema de las Naciones Unidas.","start":7843,"end":7856,"topics":[]},{"text":"Deseamos destacar los avances significativos alcanzados durante 2025, particularmente en la publicación del informe sobre los progresos hacia una generación de equipos de las Naciones Unidas en los países, la evaluación de la estrategia de las Naciones Unidas para la inclusión de las personas con discapacidad y los trabajos analíticos orientados a identificar las prioridades estratégicas para la implementación de la resolución 79/226 sobre la QCPR.","start":7857,"end":7884,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Recalcamos que las evaluaciones ofrecen una base sólida para identificar oportunidades de mejora, fortalecer la coherencia institucional y orientar los debates actuales sobre la modernización y el fortalecimiento del sistema en el marco de la iniciativa 180, como bien pudimos apreciar en la presentación.","start":7885,"end":7904,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]},{"text":"Las evaluaciones independientes, rigurosas y oportunas son indispensables para asegurar que los procesos de reforma estén guiados por evidencia y por los resultados obtenidos en los países.","start":7905,"end":7916,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"Al mismo tiempo, tomamos nota de las limitaciones señaladas respecto a la disponibilidad de recursos, las cuales han afectado la capacidad de la oficina para avanzar en algunas prioridades estratégicas y producir sus informes conforme a los calendarios previstos.","start":7917,"end":7932,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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The system-wide evaluation office is now a solidly established and valuable key function of the UN development system. The report and today's presentation demonstrate this.","start":7972,"end":7989,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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That provides key elements on how to accelerate the implementation of the UNDS reforms.","start":7997,"end":8010,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."}]},{"text":"It is important that the findings and the recommendations of the evaluation reports of the evaluation office are discussed in the ECOSOC and the agencies' governing bodies and continue to be integrated systematically in the future OAS program.","start":8026,"end":8043,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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The evaluation on progress towards a new generation of UN country teams provides important evidence for the UN 80 process, including on cooperation frameworks, UNCT configuration and the role of the RC system. This is precisely the kind of system-wide evidence member states need to guide reform.","start":8096,"end":8117,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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If SWEO remains to be remain credible and independent, its work program should be driven by strategic priorities, not by which evaluations are easiest to finance.","start":8140,"end":8159,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"debt-fiscal-space","label":"Debt and Fiscal Space","description":"Speakers highlighted rising debt service, constrained fiscal space, and the need to expand domestic resource mobilization, improve tax systems, and access affordable financing. 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Thank you.","start":8175,"end":8183,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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I will try to be concise with the following recommendations.","start":8195,"end":8205,"topics":[]},{"text":"First, as SWEO expands its role under the QCPR and UN 80, we encourage systemic integration of evaluation findings into the intergovernmental processes. The ECOSOC HLPF review negotiations underway should recognize SWEO evaluations as key inputs for the ECOSOC cycle and the HLPF.","start":8206,"end":8226,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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You have the floor.","start":8299,"end":8303,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":73,"start":8306,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=8306","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Thank you, Mr. Vice-President. Canada welcomes the report of the executive director on the system-wide evaluation office, and we commend the work done by the office to date. We have for many years been calling for the need for better and stronger data and evidence-based reforms driven by evaluations such as these. In particular, the system-wide UNCT evaluation and the evidence generation and recommendations it generated, pardon me, including the management response, is precisely why this office was established and specifically to strengthen the reforms of the wider development system. So we really appreciate how much it's done in such a short period of time.","start":8306,"end":8346,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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Uh it's very reassuring to to listen to the different interventions and to recognize uh the value added uh from the system-wide evaluations and the different report, in particular the new generations of of country team.","start":8394,"end":8412,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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Thank you.","start":8437,"end":8466,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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Thank you.","start":8470,"end":8478,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Pablo Ruiz","affiliation":"URY","affiliation_full":"Uruguay","group":null,"function":"Resident Coordinator"}},{"statement_number":77,"start":8479,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=8479","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"And the floor is yours, Ms. Cook.","start":8479,"end":8481,"topics":[]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Benkosme","affiliation":"ECOSOC","affiliation_full":"ECOSOC","group":null,"function":"Vice-President"}},{"statement_number":78,"start":8487,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=8487","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"Well, thank you very much for for the words of encouragement and and appreciation for this work. It is very encouraging to see how this new function is is landing so well with with member states, and this was also reflected in the fuller informal briefing that we provided for member states earlier in the month of May.","start":8487,"end":8513,"topics":[]},{"text":"Maybe I'll just sort of pick up on a on a number of of the questions that were raised to respond to those.","start":8514,"end":8522,"topics":[]},{"text":"To the to the UK in relation to this question around bespoke sort of insights and engagement on UN 80 work packages. We have, as I said, provided these extensive briefings to entities and to sort of colleagues who are leading different elements of the UN 80 processes on request.","start":8524,"end":8550,"topics":[]},{"text":"We are also available to provide briefing or to provide written responses to to queries from member states on particular elements to to help sort of get to get to grips with the with this evidence. But we're not planning any any further products that we would sort of issue to to inform the the ongoing deliberations.","start":8551,"end":8577,"topics":[]},{"text":"I'd particularly highlight the work that we did with MOPAN last year, that the series of reports that were produced by MOPAN on key issues relating to UN 80 really do sort of embed and integrate not just our evidence, but also other relevant UN evidence, which we also facilitated.","start":8578,"end":8599,"topics":[{"key":"integrated-financing-frameworks","label":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks","description":"Integrated National Financing Frameworks were repeatedly presented as a practical tool for country-led financing strategies. 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That will provide some additional insights coming through in July, we expect, specifically to inform the UN 80 work packages on the regional reset and the special envoy part of the work packages.","start":8644,"end":8670,"topics":[]},{"text":"And we have also been engaging with the emerging thinking under the work package on strengthening results across the system as well in that work package. Of course, obviously the evaluation on the UN country teams speaks directly to the work packages on UNCT country configuration, but also on the regional dimensions of the reforms.","start":8671,"end":8698,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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We also regularly exchange information on the insights that they are learning through their entity-specific assessments.","start":8700,"end":8720,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. 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For that, we need to put in place a database application that enables entities to be able to provide updates on progress against the actions that they have agreed or partially agreed in a very timely, user-friendly manner.","start":8841,"end":8875,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"data-governance","label":"Data Governance and Interoperability","description":"Participants repeatedly underlined the importance of stronger national data systems, interoperable platforms, data quality, and disaggregated statistics. 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We also consider that the work on the expertise on demand is fundamental to be deploying the capacities of the system, particularly for non-resident entities.","start":9018,"end":9058,"topics":[{"key":"evaluation-accountability","label":"Evaluation and Accountability","description":"The discussion emphasized independent system-wide evaluation as a foundation for accountability, learning, and evidence-based reform across the UN development system. Speakers linked stronger evaluation follow-up, management responses, and predictable financing to better country-level results and more effective implementation of UN reforms."},{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. 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I think with that I would just like to end and thank everyone for, as I said, the helpful comments, reflections and above all the encouragement that you've provided and advice this past two years. Thank you.","start":9059,"end":9103,"topics":[{"key":"country-level-coordination","label":"Country-Level Coordination","description":"Many interventions focused on stronger coordination through resident coordinators, UN country teams, and cooperation frameworks. The emphasis was on bringing governments, donors, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector together around nationally owned priorities and more coherent implementation."}]}]}],"speaker":{"name":"Andrea Cook","affiliation":"UNSDG","affiliation_full":"UNSDG","group":null,"function":"Executive Director"}},{"statement_number":79,"start":9105,"pageUrl":"/ru/ecosoc/2026/20?lang=floor&t=9105","paragraphs":[{"sentences":[{"text":"I thank Madam executive director. We have reached the end of the discussion. 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