Finance in Common Summit 2025 - Sign the Civil Society Joint Declaration

2025-02-14

The Forus network, together with a coalition of over 50 civil society organisations, is launching a joint declaration during the Finance in Common Summit 2025 (26–28 February 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa). Together, we have developed a number of recommendations for public development banks focusing on:

Strengthening Civic Space & PDB-CSO Engagement
Upholding Human Rights & Community-Led Development
Development Finance: A Call for Fundamental Reform
Climate Finance: A Call for Just Transition

We invite you to sign the Civil Society Declaration and to share it with your own networks and members!

Sign the CSO Declaration

Forus members and civil society organisations at the forefront of the Finance in Common Summit 2025 | Forus

Forus members and civil society organisations at the forefront of the Finance in Common Summit 2025 Since 2020, Forus members along with several other civil society organisations part of the Informal CSO Mechanism on FiCS (CSOs@FiCS) have been playing an active role in the Finance in Common summit (FICs), bringing a critical, community-focused perspective to the table. By emphasizing human rights, transparency, and equity, civil society organisations are using the FICs process to influence the policies and practices of PDBs to ensure that people and planet take precedence over profit.

Financing for Development The cumulative impacts of converging international crises including the coronavirus health pandemic, the accelerating climate and biodiversity loss, have contributed to an extremely challenging global macro-economic context and there is now a strong possibility of a prolonged sharp slowdown in global economic activity. How do we shape a different economic paradigm which respects people and planet?