Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus

Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008

Member States adopted by consensus the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development (A/CONF.212/L.1/Rev.1*) at the closing of the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008). The declaration reaffirms the Monterrey Consensus and calls for a United Nations Conference at the highest level to examine the impact of the crisis on development. Officials from more than 160 countries, including nearly 40 Heads of State or Government, attended the four day conference.

^*The document was reissued for technical reasons.