DAWN actively participated in the FfD Civil Society Hearings with Member States (9th of April), co-organized by the Women’s Working Group on FfD Strategic Meeting (10th and 11th of April) and fully engaged in the second FfD drafting sessions sharing major concerns and language proposals with Member States through oral interventions in the official meeting as well as in side events.
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DAWN at CSO Hearings at FfD3 – April 9, 2015
On April 9, 2015, DAWN members delivered presentations at the Informal Interactive Hearing for Civil Society session at the Third International Conference on Financing for Developent, in the UN Trusteeship Council Chamber.
DAWN statements at the Civil Society Hearings of the Third International Conference on FfD
Corina Rodriguez Enriquez DAWN – WWG on FfD closing remarks at the session on Domestic public resource mobilization, including international tax cooperation, New York, April 9, 2015
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Mbathio Samb, DAWN – WWG on FfD intervention at the session on International Public Finance, New York, April 9, 2015
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Marina Durano, DAWN – WWG on FfD intervention at the session on Systemic Issues, New York, April 9, 2015
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DAWN Interventions at the Official Second Drafting Sessions (13 – 17 April, 2015)
Nicole Bidegain Ponte – address to Member States at the FfD Second Drafting session on General Comments on the zero draft, New York, April 13, 2015.
Corina Rodriguez Enriquez – address to Member States at the FfD Second Drafting session on International Public Finance, New York, April 15, 2015.
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DAWN Interventions in Side Events (13 – 17 April, 2015)
Nicole Bidegain Ponte – regional and feminist analysis at the side event co-sponsored by Uruguay, Egypt, Regions Refocus, DAWN, and Third World Network, New York, April 14, 2015.
The side event titled “The Geopolitics of Financing Post-2015: Regional and Feminist Analysis” was held 14 April 2015 during the second drafting session towards the Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3). The proceedings of the event included key insights into the current FfD negotiations from representatives of the Permanent Missions of Uruguay, Brazil, India, and Egypt to the UN, in addition to Regions Refocus 2015 (Kathryn Tobin), Third World Network (Bhumika Muchhala), and Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (Nicole Bidegain). The panel, moderated by Stefano Prato of Society for International Development (SID), examined elements essential to the FfD agenda and parallel negotiations to the means of implementation (MOI) and global partnership for development aspects of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. Its discussions drew on A Geopolitical Analysis of FfD3, published in March 2015 by the three co-conveners from civil society; along with recommendations emerging from nine regional workshops convened by Regions Refocus 2015 in collaboration with autonomous South-based civil society networks. The panelists spoke to pertinent issues in the area of domestic resource mobilization (DRM), private finance, debt, trade, and systemic issues. Governments voiced concern over the preferential treatment given to the private sector, the need for a UN tax committee, the role of multilateralism and middle income countries (MICs) in financing development, the strengthening of regional bodies, and the need for greater political will, especially from developed countries, to address the systemic and structural issues at the core of FfD and the post-2015 sustainable development agenda. Following presentations from H.E. Ambassador Gonzalo Koncke, Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the UN; H.E. Ambassador Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN; Tamer Mostafa, Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN; and Amit Narang, Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, the discussion included key civil society networks following the FfD debates.
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Nicole Bidegain Ponte – closing remarks at the UNWomen side event “Transformative financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment: Expectations from the Financing for Development process”, New York, April 16, 2015.
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