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The 2023 Development Cooperation Forum (DCF), held on 14-15 March 2023, emphasized the human dimension of development cooperation, focusing on the lives and livelihoods of people that development cooperation was meant to serve. It spotlighted the distinctive role that risk-informed development cooperation played in building the resilience of the most vulnerable, including through strengthened support to social protection, climate adaptation, and digital transformation. As such, and in line with its mandates, the DCF established a firm foundation for collective policy actions in 2023, including at the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development, the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the SDG Summit, and the High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, among others. More…