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Financing Development
Women's Working Group (WWG) on Financing for Development The WWG, formed in June 2008, is an alliance of women´s organisations and networks that advocates for the advancement of gender equality, women's empowerment and human rights in the financing-for-development-related UN processes, including:
* Hearings with Civil Society and the Business Sector on FfD (June 2008)
* ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum (June 2008)
* Financing for Development Doha Review Conference (November 2008)
* Commission on the Status of Women (March 2009)
* ECOSOC-BWIs-WTO-UNCTAD Spring Meeting (April 2009)
* High Level Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development (June 2009)
In the context of the current financial crisis, UN processes present opportunities to make significant structural changes in the global development architecture. The WWG is seizing this political moment to move away from failed institutions and policies towards a rights-based global development architecture that recognises the central role of care, social reproduction and sexuality.
The WWG is coordinated by DAWN and includes the following networks/organisations: African Women´s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), AWID, Feminist Task Force-Global Call to Action against Poverty (FTF-GCAP), International Gender and Trade Nework (IGTN), International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Network for Women's Rights (NETRIGHT), Women´s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and WIDE.
We have a list serve gender-in-ffd[at]googlegroups.com to exchange feminist analyses on financing for development issues and to push the envelope for development alternatives. For more information on how to join, please contact info[at]dawnnet.org. 'Time to Act: Women Cannot Wait! A call for rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis' - WWG statement. Read in Spanish.
'High Diplomacy and Fragile Consensus Limit UN to Development Cooperation:No Commitments to Reforming the Financial Architecture!!!' Issued by the Women´s Working Group in Financing for Development
'A call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis' - Women's Working Group on Financing For Development (WWG on FfD) of which WIDE is a member, has released its declaration as input in the process to the UN Conerence on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development (HLC) that will take place in New York from June 1-3, 2009. You can read and download the declaration in German.
"Statement on the negotiations about the outcome of the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development" - WIDE has signed a statement calling upon governments not to take procedural arguments as an excuse to further delaying the substantive negotiations on the urgently needed global policy responses to the current crisis. Read the statement in French and in Spanish.
'Fix the Social and Ecological Crises, not the Bank's Profits' - WIDE has endorsed the statement of the cross sectoral network of European civil society organisations addressing the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development. High Level Financing for Development review Conference 'Doha' held on 29 November-2 December, 2008: In 2008 the Financing for Development process culminated in the follow up high level meeting of the UN Monterrey Consensus (Doha, Qatar, 28th November to 2nd December 2008. The UN Monterrey consensus follow up process also focusses on related issues and looks into policy coherence with economic development and aid. In the run up to the High Level meeting Outcome of the civil society forum - Civil society declaration - Daha, Qatar, November 25-27, 2008 Gender equality at the centre of Financing for Development: WIDE on the road to Doha, updates in WIDE E-newsletter September and October 2008. MDG3 Fund: we want more!, WIDE newsletter July/August 2008
Statement from the Women´s Consultation on Financing for Development: Formal Submission to the Financing for Development Review Process, New York, 16-17 June 2008. WIDE at the UN Monterrey Consensus Informal Review Session on Aid, including Women's Working Group statement around the Session, April Newsletter 2008 Comment on the EC communication that is being finalised on the EU's position towards the Financing for Development Agenda, May 2008 WIDE at the UN Monterrey Consensus Informal Review Session on Aid, including Women's Working Group statement around the Session, April Newsletter 2008 Update: Financing for Development, WIDE newsletter March 2008 Financing for Development´s Road to Doha, WIDE newsletter, December 2007. 'Civil Society Groups Sound the Alarm: the current development financial architecture undermines gender equality and women´s rights', WIDE together with WEDO, GCAP Feminist Task Force and the Anglican Consultative Council UN Office press release, 23 October.
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