Key commitments coming out of the Addis summit that ended yesterday, including several new initiatives that sprung out of the round tables and side events that ran alongside the plenary sessions, were highlighted in a UN news release issued on July 16.

While the 39-page Addis outcome document covered an exhaustive list of vital socioeconomic issues, prominently mentioning gender, environmental sustainability and domestic resource mobilization, not all stakeholders were satisfied, especially advocacy groups pushing for an empowered UN global tax committee. That CSO position is explained in detail in a post by Ranja Sengupta and Bhumika Muchala.

A good summary of outcomes and perceived shortcomings appears in a Reuters story.

The Center for Global Development’s Owen Barder describes the FFD3 result as ‘A Good First Step, But a Terrible Last Word’.

A collective Civil Society Response to the Addis Declaration, which expresses some strong reservations, can be read here.

Ana Ines Abelenda of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development wrote in the GDN section of The Guardian of her dismay that systemic reforms to the international financial system as well as specific measures to empower women, were lacking, despite some positive rhetoric.

The substantive work has just begun, so watch this space for more between now and the SDG Summit in New York….

Merrell Tuck-Primdahl, Editor of Fin4Dev and Senior Communications Officer at the World Bank, has worked in the institution’s corporate communications, development economics and Europe and Central Asia departments for many years. Prior to that, she was a public relations professional and journalist. Follow her on @MTprimdahl.