Opportunities to follow up on the FFD4 and the Sevilla Commitment (Sept.2025)

Date: 23 September 2025

Time: 15:00–16:00 CET

Location: GFMD Zoom - register here.

The outcome document contains an important reference to the media’s role in exposing illicit financial flows (IFFs).

Sevilla Commitment 29 b) “ We will support the role that the media and civil society play in fairly, transparently and ethically exposing illicit financial flows”

This session aims to:

• Identify opportunities for engaging in the implementation of the Sevilla Commitment and make the case for supporting the media, including increasing the capacity of journalists and media organisations to combat illicit finance.

• Collect data and evidence demonstrating how journalists contribute to exposing financial misconduct.

• Produce advocacy documents, case studies, and stories to engage states and organisations, including the World Bank, in supporting investigative journalists’ critical role in combating illicit financial flows.

This online meeting will feed into a side event that GFMD will organise at the GJIN conference in Kuala Lumpur in November 2025.

Meeting objective:

For the journalism and media support community—particularly investigative journalism and public media focused on illicit financial flows, transparency, accountability, and public engagement in development financing—the follow-up on FFD4, based on the Outcome Document, seeks to continue advocating for the resources required to carry out this work.

Read the the Sevilla Commitment.