Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference
on Financing for Development (Addis Ababa Action Agenda)
A/RES/69/313
sovereignty, national ownership and independence, equality, non-conditionality,
non-interference in domestic affairs and mutual benefit.
57. We welcome the increased contributions of South-South cooperation to
poverty eradication and sustainable development. We encourage developing
countries to voluntarily step up their efforts to strengthen South-South cooperation
and to further improve its development effectiveness in accordance with the
provisions of the Nairobi outcome document of the High-level United Nations
Conference on South-South Cooperation. 15 We also commit to strengthening
triangular cooperation as a means of bringing relevant experience and expertise to
bear in development cooperation.
58. We welcome continued efforts to improve the quality, impact and effectiveness
of development cooperation and other international efforts in public finance,
including adherence to agreed development cooperation effectiveness principles. We
will align activities with national priorities, including by reducing fragmentation,
accelerating the untying of aid, particularly for least developed countries and
countries most in need. We will promote country ownership and results orientation
and strengthen country systems, use programme-based approaches where
appropriate, strengthen partnerships for development, reduce transaction costs and
increase transparency and mutual accountability. We will make development more
effective and predictable by providing developing countries with regular and timely
indicative information on planned support in the medium term. We will pursue these
efforts in the Development Cooperation Forum of the Economic and Social Council
and, in this regard, we also take account of efforts in other relevant forums, such as
the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, in a complementary
manner. We will also consider not requesting tax exemptions on goods and services
delivered as government-to-government aid, beginning with renouncing repayments
of value-added taxes and import levies.
59. We acknowledge that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change 16 and the Conference of the Parties thereto is the primary international,
intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. We
welcome the Lima Call for Climate Action 17 and we are encouraged by the
commitment of the Conference of the Parties to reaching an ambitious agreement in
Paris in 2015 that is applicable to all parties and that reflects the principle of
common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, in the light of
different national circumstances.
60. We reaffirm the importance of meeting in full existing commitments under
international conventions, including on climate change and related global
challenges. We recognize that funding from all sources, including public and
private, bilateral and multilateral, as well as alternative sources of finance, will need
to be stepped up for investments in many areas, including for low-carbon and
climate resilient development. We recognize that, in the context of meaningful
mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, developed countries
committed to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion a year by 2020 from a wide
variety of sources to address the needs of developing countries. We recognize the
need for transparent methodologies for reporting climate finance and welcome the
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Resolution 64/222, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822.
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FCCC/CP/2014/10/Add.1.
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