ATI joins the Sevilla Platform for Action
Seville, Spain / 30 June 2025 – The Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) was selected to be launched today as part of the Sevilla Platform for Action (SPA) during the high-level SPA press launch event at the opening of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4). The ATI will support the implementation of the FFD4 outcome document with its forthcoming Seville Declaration on Domestic Revenue Mobilisation.
This initiative is co-led by ATI members The Gambia, Germany, Madagascar, Norway, and the European Union. High-level representatives of the co-leads reaffirmed the ATI’s role in placing domestic revenue mobilisation (DRM) at the core of the global financing agenda and providing an inclusive partnership for implementing the renewed framework adopted in the FFD4 outcome document — the Compromiso de Sevilla.
During FFD4, ATI members and non-members will be invited to endorse the initiative. The UK and France expressed support to the Addis Tax Initiative’s focus on improving domestic resource mobilisation in partner countries.
The Seville Declaration on DRM is a renewed political pact to deliver on the promises of the 2030 Agenda, by building states that can fund their futures.
Germany stands ready to work with all ATI partners – current and future – to turn this declaration into real change on the ground. So let me conclude with a call to action to join the ATI and become part of the Seville Platform of Action so we can together enhance DRM to finance sustainable development.
H.E. Reem Alabali-Radovan, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
The SPA offers a mechanism to translate the ambitions of FFD4 into tangible, measurable action. Initiatives admitted into the platform were selected for their potential to generate real impact, guided by clear, time-bound, and inclusive principles. Since its launch at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD3) in 2015, the ATI has supported the implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) and is firmly anchored within the Financing for Development process. For this reason, the ATI is uniquely positioned to support the implementation and monitoring of the Compromiso de Sevilla.
ATI builds on a decade of fostering dialogue, DRM cooperation, and country-led reform in domestic revenue systems, now reinforced by a renewed ambition through its Seville Declaration on DRM.
In the face of mounting global fiscal pressures — rising debt, shrinking aid flows, and tightening budgets — DRM is a critical pillar of sustainable development financing. It enables countries to mobilise predictable, resilient, and autonomous source of funding to meet national development goals and ensure long-term fiscal sustainability. The Seville Declaration on DRM sets out four ambitious, collective actions to boost the renewed framework on DRM laid out in the FFD4 outcome document by 2030:
1: “ATI members commit to support enhancing DRM on the basis of fair, gender responsive and environmentally sensitive tax policies as well as fair, efficient, effective and transparent revenue administrations.”
2: “ATI development partners collectively recommit to at least double the volume of DRM cooperation provided at the time the Addis Tax Initiative was established to support country-led tax reforms.”
3: “ATI members apply coherent and coordinated policies that foster DRM and combat tax-related illicit financial flows (IFFs).”
4: “ATI members commit to enhance space and capacity for DRM accountability stakeholders in partner countries to strengthen the broader social contract.”
The context and details on the scope and expected impact of the actions are described in the Declaration.
A more comprehensive presentation of the ATI’s actions will take place at its side event “Domestic Revenue Mobilisation at the heart of Sustainable Development: the Seville Declaration” on 1 July 2025, 4:30–6:00 PM, in Side Event Room 2.
As a concrete follow-up to the Seville Declaration on DRM, Norway pledges to continue scaling up our support. As emphasised in the Compromiso de Sevilla, national resource mobilisation is one of the most effective tools for closing the financing gap in developing countries.
But financial support is only part of the story. DRM is not just about increasing revenues—it is about strengthening the social contract.
H.E. Åsmund Grøver Aukrust, Minister of International Development, Norway
Note to editors
The Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) was launched in 2015 at FFD3. As a multi-stakeholder partnership, today the ATI brings together 77 partner countries, development partners, and supporting organisations united by the vision of tax systems that work for people and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Secretariat of the ATI is facilitated by the International Tax Compact (ITC). The ITC is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and co-funded by the European Union.