The Third International Conference on Financing for Development was held from 13 to 16 July 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was attended by high-level political representatives, including heads of state and government, and ministers of finance, foreign affairs and development cooperation, as well as all relevant institutional stakeholders, NGOs and corporate entities. The Conference resulted in an intergovernmentally negotiated and agreed outcome which would support the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda.
The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) was formed in October 2007 as an alliance of women’s organisations and networks to advocate for the advancement of gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights in FfD-related processes of the United Nations. In the context of financial and economic crises, these UN processes presented opportunities to make significant structural changes in the global development architecture. The WWG on FfD seized this political moment to move towards advocating for a rights-based global development architecture that recognises the central role of the care economy, social reproduction and sexuality.
In the context of preparations for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, the WWG on FfD was intended to be an extensive arena for networking, strategising and alliance building on FfD-related issues, bringing a feminist and women’s rights perspective to the discussions and deliberations ahead of Addis Ababa Conference.
For more information on FfD, please visit: http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ffd3.1.html
For more information on WWG on FfD, please visit: http://www.wwgonffd.org
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