Break out group sessions on each chapter of the Monterrey Consensus filled the second part of the first day of the Global Civil Society Forum, followed by an evening Plenary Session. The break out groups were held to formulate messages to the draft outcome document and to the draft civil society declaration. The conclusions of the break out group sessions were presented and discussed in the Plenary Session and will be included in the Draft Civil Society Declaration. This declaration is dealing with messages such as the need for an inclusive forum to lead the reform process of the international financial institutions, which are central to CS but did not find their way into the official Draft Outcome Document or are only present with very weak language such as the follow-up mechanism for the FFD process.

The latest draft civil society declaration, which is a compiled version with all the comments and amendments of CSOs, which is right now being translated into spanish, french, english and arabic, to be issued in the early evening. The drafting group will be occupied till very late today with finalising the statement. The final version of the Civil Society Declaration is expected for tomorrow evening.