The International Conference on Financing for Development was held from 18-22 March 2002 in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.The Post Conference Daily Calendar provides links to all information from the plenaries, roundtables, side events and press conferences. The General Assembly will convene on Thursday, 27 June 2002 to discuss the report of the conference (A/Conf.198/11). This first United Nations-hosted conference to address key financial and development issues attracted 50 Heads of State or Government, over 200 ministers as well as leaders from the private sector and civil society, and senior officials of all the major intergovernmental financial, trade, economic, and monetary organizations. Their statements to the plenaries (in text and in video) and the Monterrey Consensus provide a picture of the new global approach to financing development. The Monterrey Conference also marked the first quadripartite exchange of views between governments, civil society, the business community, and the institutional stakeholders on global economic issues. These global discussions involved over 800 participants in twelve separate roundtables. The Co-Chairs of the roundtables -- heads of governments, the heads of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the regional development banks, as well as ministers of finance, trade, and foreign affairs -- prepared summaries of the major ideas raised in the discussions.

2015 is set to be a pivotal year for the international development agenda, with agreements to be reached on the objectives and policies for promoting development that is economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable through 2030. The first stage in completing the debate on these issues is the Third UN Conference on Financing for Development (FfD), to be held in Addis Ababa during July 13–16, 2015, which aims to build an international consensus on the actions needed to ensure that sufficient financing is available for developing countries in pursuing sustainable development.

This publication offers a comprehensive view of the Monterrey Conference, pulling together in one volume and CD-ROM all the relevant speeches, proposals, reports, resolutions and other documentation, including the Monterrey Consensus itself.

Annotation A Case for Aid: Building a Consensus for Development Assistance is a selection of readings associated with the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development which was held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002. The focus of the book is the report, 'The Role and Effectiveness of Development Assistance: Lessons from World Bank Experience.' Also included are "A Partnership for Development and Peace, " by James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank Group; "Making the Case for Aid, " by Nicholas Stern, chief economist of the World Bank; and "The Monterrey Consensus, " the official United Nations document that outlines the major agreements at the conference.