Yesterday concluded the inaugural ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development Forum, which was held 18 - 20 April at UNHQ in New York. The Forum consisted of plenary sessions and six roundtables, where high-level officials discussed topics contained in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, agreed in July 2015. 

Taxation was raised as an important method for raising domestic resources. Outcomes and recommendations from the Forum will feed into overall follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.