The major outcome of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3), which concluded yesterday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was the adoption of an outcome document containing a series of measures to renew and enhance global commitments for financing sustainable development.

What are the most effective means of sustainable financing for prevention and control of NCDs? This question set the tone for the side event held last Tuesday 14 July, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the margins of the Third International Conference of Financing for Development (FFD3). 

Against the backdrop of the Third International Conference of Financing for Development (FfD3) in Addis Ababa, this side event will examine means of sustainable financing for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as part of efforts to strengthen national health systems.

"Governments are in the midst of tough talks in New York over the text of the Addis Ababa Accord, which is scheduled to be adopted at the end of the Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), to be held in Ethiopia in July. However at last report, negotiators continued to downplay a powerful mechanism that governments could use to help achieve and finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September: tobacco taxes."

Prior to next week’s drafting session for the outcome document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, the co-facilitators are holding informal hearings at the UN with the Business Sector and Civil Society to gather their views on financing and reactions to the Zero Draft of the outcome document.

The Sustainable Development Solutions Network  has launched a draft report on financing for sustainable development that will provide recommendations for the Financing for Development Conference to be held in Addis Abiba, Ethiopia from 13-16 July.