Statement by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (May 2009): 

A call for structural, sustainable, gender equitable and rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis

This declaration emerged out of the Second Women’s Consultation convened by the WWG on FfD in New York from April 24-26, 2009. 

It is important to note that although taking gender-aware countercyclical policies is critical, it is not sufficient without changing the production, consumption and development model that has led to current crisis. This is a model that harms its basis of production and social reproduction and because of this, it is intrinsically a careless and unsustainable model that needs to be fundamentally challenged.

Click here to read full statement: A Call for Structural Sustainable Gender Equitable and Rights-Based Responses to the Global Financial and Economic Crisis_April-27-2009

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