Pandemic Action Network (PAN), Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), and 30 organisations are calling on 2025 G20 Leaders to prioritise financing to unlock progress for people and the planet.

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Dear G20 Foreign and Finance Ministers (Dear Leaders):

Financing our common future: your decisive leadership can unlock win-win investment for people and planet 

We strongly welcome the leadership agenda outlined by the South African G20 Presidency, building on the momentum from Brazil, encouraging shared ambition and financing for our common future so that marginalised citizens in every G20 nation can enjoy the benefits of smart strategic investment for people and planet. Every nations’ government must put its own citizens first. Those citizens’ interests are best served by cooperation between people and nations, not isolationism or conflict or the active amplification of disinformation by some G20 governments. Ahead of forthcoming G20 Task Force and Ministerial meetings civil society groups from around the world are calling, in this Jubilee Year, for action by leaders on financing, food, and health. 

The world faces complex and interconnected challenges — from armed conflict to climate change, pandemic threats, food insecurity, declining trust, and economic insecurity. Global solidarity and leadership, and working to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will be essential to advancing peace, stability, and prosperity for all. To meet the many challenges we face head-on, we call on you to prioritise:

Financing the Future:

• From debt to hope — in this Jubilee Year, we must own the reality that the current debt architecture is not working. We back African Finance Ministers’ repeated calls for a significantly enhanced Debt Common Framework, so it is more time bound, radically transparent, and offers service reductions on application. Expanded creditor committees with the private sector must help enforce comparability of treatment with more use of IMF lending into arrears to reduce holdout creditors’ leverage. The IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Analysis needs an overhaul to make it more SDG and solvency focused, while enhanced collective action clauses, vulture fund legislation, state-contingency debt instruments, and national-level strengthening of Debt Management Offices and Public Finance Management are needed to improve global and national debt legal frameworks. Debt pause clauses should be implemented by all creditors in the case of natural disasters, famines, and major epidemics and pandemics.
• Quality and quantity ODA — much aid is incredibly impactful and effective, especially when it is in citizens’ hands or well scrutinised locally by them and when it scales the latest innovations. Failure by high-income countries (HICs) to deliver on climate and development ODA quality and quantity promises has damaged trust and led to geopolitical tensions. To stabilise the global economy, smart ODA should be increased, focused where most effective and invested in the markets and consumers of tomorrow.
• Unused Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) should be redirected to the Global South to deliver on climate and development priorities. New SDRs issues can and should be explored if more recycling is not implemented rapidly and effectively.
• Innovative financing should be prioritised, including at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) conference in Seville; with all G20 governments joining the Coalition for Solidarity Levies to deliver on new mechanisms for debt-free climate and development finance. These mechanisms include aviation, fossil fuel, and global shipping levies, as well as financial transaction taxes and advancing the wealth tax already agreed at the G20 level. 
• Cost of capital action is needed to reduce the high costs of capital borne by low- and middle-income countries. Implementable proposals to advance this — for example across credit rating methodologies, data gaps, and prudential regulation — should be developed under the South African G20 with expert advice outlining a roadmap for implementation.

Food for All:

• Build on the momentum of the Brazilian presidency’s Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty by keeping food security and malnutrition high on the agenda, monitoring implementation, and aligning concessional finance to deliver against the vision and ambition to accelerate the progress toward SDGs 1 and 2. 
• Leverage opportunities such as the African Development Fund replenishment and the Nutrition for Growth Summit, in March, for financing and policy commitments that deliver for the Global Alliance. 

Health for Hope:

• Continuing and growing health threats — particularly mpox and H5N1 — highlight the need for increased action on pandemic prevention preparedness and response (PPR), including implementing the International Health Regulations (IHRs) and a holistic pandemic agreement. This agreement, with equity at its heart, must be concluded ahead of the World Health Assembly in May to align countries on the imperative of adopting a One Health approach to pandemic PPR.
• Tackling mis- and disinformation should be a G20 priority, with international organisations properly resourced to take action against false information on global public goods, including global health.
• Ensure all global health initiatives are fully financed, including Gavi and the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria through their replenishments, the World Health Organisation and the Pandemic Fund, with further collaboration to find efficiencies across health sector partners to maximise impact.

Throughout these programs citizens must be empowered and safeguarded to track financial flows from resources to results to make sure investments deliver good growth to boost economies, enable societies, and fight corruption. In 2025, despite the challenges the world faces, your leadership has the opportunity to unlock progress for people and planet.

Yours sincerely,

1. Accountability Lab
2. Africa coalition on TB (ACT Africa)
3. Afya na Haki 
4. Association d’Aide à l’Éducation de l’Enfant Handicapé (AAEEH)
5. Beyond Bretton Woods
6. Center for Economic and Social Rights
7. Civil Society Movement against TB
8. Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development (HEPS) Uganda
9. Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS (EANNASO) 
10. FIS – CAMEROUN
11. Foundations Platform F20
12. Germanwatch
13. Global Citizen
14. Infectious Disease Alliance
15. Janna Health Foundation
16. Korean Advocates for Global Health
17. LiveWell Initiative LWI
18. Malala Fund
19. NGO: ADET
20. ONE
21. Open Contracting Partnership
22. Pandemic Action Network (PAN)
23. Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA)
24. Results UK
25. ReSurge International
26. SDG2 Advocacy Hub
27. Sharing Strategies
28. Stop TB Partnership Kenya
29. Wote Youth Development Projects CBO
30. Youth Network for Positive Change – YOUNETPO