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Women in the global Economy - Financing for Development - Investing in Women 10.00
- 10.15: 10.15
- 10.35: 10.35
- 11.10: 11.45
- 12.30: 12.30 - 13.30: Lunch 13.30
- 13.35: 13.45
- 14.00: 14.00
- 14.25: 14.25
-14.50: 14.50 - 15.05: Coffee/tea break. 15.05
- 15.15: 15.15
-16.15: 16.15
-16.30: Arranged by: K.U.L.U. - Women and Development in cooperation with KULU member organizations: Danish Women's Society, Ibis K-gruppen, UNIFEM-DK, Women's International League for Freedom and Peace, Folkevirke, The Danish Family Planning Association (Sex og Samfund), Bahá'i Association of Women a.o.. (*) Representatives from the regional focal points for "Women's Consultations on Financing for Development". Women's consultation is an informal network of women's network and women around the world, working to map out ways to bring a feminist perspective to the FfD agenda and to identify priorities an determine strategies of including women's voices and experiences, particularly women from the global South. This is a joint initiative of the organization WEDO (Women's Environment & Development Organization and UNIFEM. UNIFEM has been financially supporting the regional focal points in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Dr. Maria S. Floro is presently the UNIFEM Adviser on Gender and Financing for Development Project. She is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at American University, teaching courses on Gender and Economics, Development Finance and Banking, and Economic Development. She is currently working closely with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organization) in bringing gender dimensions into the UN International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD). In the capacity of UNIFEM adviser, she participated in a UNIFEM panel of leading economists at the third preparatory meeting for Financing for Development in New York May 201. Her recent research work include gender and savings, measurement of unpaid work, women homeworkers and coping strategies in the informal sector, globalization and gender, and the gender dimensions of the financial crisis in East Asia. She has also worked with several international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme, UN Economic and Social Council Secretariat, the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in the Philippines, Inter-American Development Bank, and has given gender training workshops to scientists, economists as well as Philippine women’s groups and grassroots organizations. Her publications include books on Informal Rural Credit Markets and the New Institutional Economics, Women's Work in the World Economy, and several articles including:"Economic Restructuring, Gender and the Allocation of Time", World Development (1995), "Women's Well-being, Poverty and Work Intensity", Feminist Economics (1995), “Structural Adjustment, Gender and Labor Markets: The Philippines and Zambia” (co-authored) Journal of Developing Areas (1999), “Gender, Power and Financial Crisis”, (co-authored), World Development (2000). Nelcia Robinson is the Coordinator of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA) and Coordinator of the Caribbean Gender and Trade Network, an affiliate of the International Gender and Trade Network. A Kellog Fellow, Nelcia has majored in International Development. She has wide experience in researching the social impact of trade agreements on Caribbean people and Caribbean women especially. She has also been actively involved in activities for the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action at local, regional and global levels. Nelcia is a community educator, lobbyist and researcher. Her special focus is women's human rights and economic development. In 2001, CAFRA has contributed to the Document: Unequal Treatment for Unequal Partners as a member of Caribbean Reference Group on External Relations Initial Advocacy Position on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) one of the groups of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre. Winnie Madonsela is currently the Research Coordinator for The Gender & Trade Network in Africa (GENTA), a regional organization that is part of the International Gender & Trade Network. She is a lecturer in economics and is presently on leave from her position as a head of the Department of Economics at the University of Swaziland. Born in Swaziland, she has worked extensively with Development Projects as a consultant. In 2001, Ms. Madonsela was the lead discussant on the document by Beneria and Lind: "Engendering International Trade: Concepts, Policy and Action" Commissioned by the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) for Regional Research Points. Also in 2001, Ms Madonsela made a Study commissioned by the Kellog Foundation under the Global Leadership Programme for Swaziland country Hub with the title: "The Impact of Globalisation on Rural Communities: The case of NKambeni Community". Currently she is working in a preliminary inquiry on the impact of the EU/ACP Cotonou Agreement on African States, preparing literacy material for Swazi farmers aimed at sensitization on the multilateral trade system and finally in a Qualitative analysis for project on determination of benefits to Swaziland from participation in the COMESA FTA. Hellen
Grace Wangusa,
Central Coordinator of the African Women's Economic Policy Network (AWEPON),
is as well the focal point person for WEDO in Africa and the Sub-regional
co-ordinator for Jubilee South Debt Coalition among many other international
engagements in training in gender and socio-economic analysis, evaluation
and participatory research. Ms. Wangusa has been working closely with
members of ActionAid and other organisation at national and international
level on engendering inter-governmental negotiation documents. In 2001,
Ms. Wangusa has trained Actionaid-Uganda country staff on Macro-economic
Policies and their Impact. Currently, she is a member of the National
and Global Steering Committee of the Structural Adjustment Participatory
Review Initiative (SAPRI), the Global Environmental and Economic Justice
Project (EEJP) among other associations. Ms. Wangusa brings some of
her strengths: "the ability to listen and learn from both the "unschooled"
and celebrated economists, to make meaningful connections and establish
gaps/flaws that need to be addressed, especially in Africa. Viola
Torres is Gender Officer and Policy Studies and Research Program
Coordinator for Freedom From Debt Coalition (FDC) Philippines. As Gender Officer, Viola works with feminist and women advocates within the Coalition to integrate feminist perspectives in FDC analyses and advocacy - through training, program development, gender mainstreaming and research. She was active in the FDC-led project Citizens' Assessment of Structural Adjustment (CASA-Philippines), a nation-wide review of the impact if WB_IMF SAPs on people's lives including that of women as part of the global initiative called SAPRI (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative). Within FDC, she has also been involved on research and advocacy on the impact of the Asian crisis on women, on the Philippine Privatization Program and on the gender dimensions of fiscal policy issues. Janice G. Førde, Chairperson KULU –Women and Development, Denmark is the Senior Advisor of Women’s Environment and Development Organization’s (WEDO) Economic & Social Justice Program, the Chairperson, Gender and Trade (G&T) Coordinator of the International Coalition for Development Action (ICDA)and the Focal Point of the International Gender and Trade Network in Europe. K.U.L.U.
- Women and Development
(KULU) is a Danish non-partisan umbrella NGDO for 27 women organisations
and groups, two local umbrella organisations, incl. an individual membership
base. KULU works with development education, lobby and advocacy in order
to highlight gender and development issues and influence Danish and
EU development aid policies in a gender sensitive direction. KULU gives
priority to networking and link up with like-minded networks and organisations
in the South and in the North. Presently, KULU is strengthening its
focus and programme on "Gender, Trade, Globalisation and Development"
and is paying special attention to follow the processes towards the
High Level Event on Financing for Development (FfD) and the WTO Ministerial
Conference (WTOMC4) in Doha, Qatar.
SEMINAR Saturday 27. October 2001 10 am - 17.30 pm FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT – WHAT ROLE FOR TRADE & WTO in the FfD process - WHAT IS IN IT FOR WOMEN? Does trade produce development for women? 10.00 - 10.15: 10.15 - 10.45: Pinpointing the problem areas and suggesting possible strategies. 10.45 - 11.15: 11.15 - 11.30: Break: Coffee/tea etc. 11.30 - 12.00: 12.00 - 12.30: 12.30 - 13.00: Discussion - debate 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch 14.00 - 14.15: 14.15 - 15.30: Workshops 15.30 - 15.45: Coffee break 15.45 - 16.15: Reports from workshops (10 min pr. group max) 16.15 - 17.15: Plenary session. Strategizing and setting up priorities together. For the FfD proces - and for the 4.th WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar. 17.15 - 17.30: Winding up and closing seminar Discussants: Max Havelaar representative (A Danish Fair Trade organisation) and Lene Østergaard (formerly UNCTAD), Janice G. Førde (KULU & IGTN Europe), a representantive from South Africa Contact, representatives from the Danish NGO-Coalition on Trade and Development. - Identifying core issues. Facilitator for the afternoon part: Leslie Larsen. The overall aim of the FfD trade seminar is to explore the role of trade in financing gender sensitive development - seeking to answer the questions: What are the obstacles, contradictions and challenges? And how could trade strategies include a gender sensitive agenda? The KULU trade seminar seeks to fulfill two purposes. Firstly, to inform and educate an interested public on trade and gender issues as seen from regional perspectives and examples from women's lived experiences. The seminar will therefore aim to include decision makers, politicians (particularly members of the Danish Government delegation to Qatar), journalists, development workers, researchers and representatives of women's and development NGO's. Secondly, the idea is to identify and draw up common points of convergence that need to be worked on, both in the agenda of the Financing for Development Conference and in relation to the upcoming November WTO Ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. This will be facilitated by the participation of representatives of NGO's and individuals already involved in the preparations for the WTO MC4 meeting from Denmark and from the European network of women in development. |
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