• Financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries is a major challenge. 
• Three years after the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) in 2015 called on all actors –public and private-- to coordinate better and mobilise more financial resources, the outlook is not encouraging: external finance --which many developing countries continue to depend on heavily-- has been going down, largely due to the drop in private flows, and coordination remains poor. 
• The trend must be reversed: financing the sustainable development of poor countries is an investment in the well-being of all nations. OECD countries must face the challenge: urgent and bold action is needed to implement the AAAA with their partners and fulfil the promise of Agenda 2030 at home and abroad. 
• Mobilising more finance for developing countries is not enough; the quality – i.e. the “sustainable development footprint”– of all finance must be enhanced. 
• The Outlook makes recommendations for reforms in three areas: 

1) better measurement of the quantity and quality of finance for the SDGs;
2) better incentives to direct the finance already available globally to the SDGs; and
3) better co-ordination of actors to connect the supply and demand for financing for sustainable development in developing countries.

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