Sixth Meeting of the Working Group on the Financial Aspects of Intercountry Adoption
On 21 May 2026, the sixth meeting of the Working Group (WG) on the Financial Aspects of Intercountry Adoption was held online, hosted by the Permanent Bureau (PB). The meeting had around 35 registered delegates and other experts, representing 16 HCCH Members, three Observer non-Member Contracting Parties, and three Observer organisations, in addition to Members of the PB.
Pursuant to its mandate, the WG finalised its work on draft Fact Sheet No 3 of the Toolkit for Preventing and Addressing Illicit Practices in Intercountry Adoption and the draft Note on the Financial Aspects of Intercountry Adoption. This concludes the WG’s work at this stage on the development of a number of draft tools, which also include a draft Roadmap of Cooperation Between States to Transition to No Contributions, Donations and Cooperation Projects in the Context of Adoption, the draft Tables on the Financial Aspects of Intercountry Adoption, and a draft Repository of Studies and Other Sources on the Financial Aspects of Intercountry Adoption.
As mandated by CGAP, the draft tools developed by the WG will be circulated in English, French and Spanish to HCCH Members and Contracting Parties to the 1993 Adoption Convention for comments in due course.
More information on the 1993 Adoption Convention is available on the Adoption Section of the HCCH website.