Policy Forum on Development (PFD)

The Asia-Pacific Regional meeting of the PFD was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 2-3 June 2026 with theme "Regional Partnerships for Shared Prosperity: Scaling Green Transformation and Climate Resilience in Asia and the Pacific."

The meeting brought together more than 100 participants, including development partners and regional stakeholders from across Asia and the Pacific, representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs), local authorities (LAs), the European Commission, EU Delegations, EU Member States, and financial institutions. The event aimed to strengthen dialogue and cooperation on climate resilience, climate finance, climate mobility and the localisation of Global Gateway investments. Through plenary discussions and thematic working groups, participants explored how development investments can better respond to local priorities, and promote inclusive, sustainable development. 

The final plenary session outlined the key conclusions and recommendations put forward by the civil society and local authority participants during the meeting:

1. All partners, particularly the EU, investment banks and private sector, should scale up their climate commitments, especially in the area of climate finance, and ensure that local stakeholders are supported and have access to diverse and flexible financing models and tools. These should include cooperative finance, blended finance, philanthropic funding, community-owned funds, green bonds, and small-scale grants, to enable investments in energy-efficient equipment and renewable energy solutions, among others. 
2. All partners should support climate investments that respond to climate-induced conflict and fragility.  Climate investments should have a holistic approach that empowers and respects worker’s rights to decent jobs and livelihood, upholds Indigenous people’s rights to self-determination, and enables the inclusion of other marginalised groups, including women, youth, and persons with disabilities, farmers, fisherfolks, pastoralists and Dalits. 
3. The EU and EU Member States with their financial and development institutions and national governments in partner countries should place equal and democratic partnerships at the core of the Global Gateway strategy through structured, participatory, and meaningful dialogue mechanisms among stakeholders, including local authorities, civil society, policymakers, and other relevant development actors. This includes ensuring inclusive governance, transparency and accountability, prior consent and information to local communities in all decision-making processes and upholding the principles of development effectiveness and locally-led development at all levels of partnership. 
4. The EU and EU Member States with their financial and development institutions and national governments in partner countries should ensure that CSOs, LAs, and other stakeholders, such as SMEs, are included throughout the entire cycle of climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives - from planning and designing to implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Their role should extend beyond implementation to include co-creation, decision-making, and accountability. This can be achieved by leveraging and strengthening existing platforms and partnerships, including decentralised development cooperation mechanisms, and by establishing coordinated multi-stakeholder bodies that foster inclusive, accountable, and people-centred climate governance, while responding to local economic and environmental needs. 
5. The EU and EU Member States with their financial and development institutions, national governments in partner countries local authorities and civil society should integrate, adapt and replicate local, national, and regional experiences and best practices to inform global policy discussions on climate action in ways that advance social justice, equity, accountability, sustainable livelihoods, and community resilience. All partners should support and invest in peer learning and capacity-building of local communities, CSOs and LAs, ensuring the active involvement and ownership of local actors in climate-related investments, including under the Global Gateway strategy. 

You can read the full report of the meeting here.