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Women's
consultations on Financing for Development Engendering the Financing
for Development Agenda
In 2000 Women's
Environment and Development Organization, WEDO, called on representatives
from women organizations and network to participate and be active
in the preparatory process for the High Level Event on Financing
for Development (FfD). WEDO arranged panels at the
Civil Society hearings in New York November 2000 and invited
women activists from around the world to contribute at the hearings.
WEDO continued their efforts
by organizing the women caucus at the second preparatory
committee meeting of the FfD in February 2001. At this PrepCom
WEDO in partnership with UNIFEM also invited women organizations
worldwide to a special Women's Consultation in order to strategize
together on the issues at stake on the Financing for Development
agenda. Some 30 representatives of women's organizations from
around the world spent the day mapping out ways to bring a feminist
perspective to the FfD process. Read more in
WEDO's News & Views .
UNIFEM adviser on Financing
for Development introduced the session by presenting her paper
"Gender Dimensions of the Financing for Development Agenda".
The consultation ended with different groups and individuals
taking responsibility for making a gender analysis of six agenda
themes of the
UN Secretary General's report . As a result of this work
and a consultative process a
Women's Consultation Recommendations paper was presented
at the 3. PrepCom in May, New York.
The Women's Consultation fora was created with the active participation
of many women organizations, networks and individuals around
the world. WEDO opened a Women's Consultation e-mail list and
also continuously published statements and papers on their website
- see www.wedo.org.
Regional focal
points
In order to strengthen regional inputs to the international
preparations WEDO went into partnership with UNIFEM to coordinate
and fund regional focal and contact points in Africa, Asia,
Latin America and the countries in the CEE/NIS. Regional
focal points in the WEDO-UNIFEM global coordination:
In the Latin-American
region UNIFEM
is supporting 5 contact points, coordinating with WEDO:
In the Nordic/European
region K.U.L.U.-Women and Development, Denmark is
contact point linking up with the global Women Consultation
process. - kulu@kulu.dk
The regional focal points coordinated by WEDO and sponsored
by UNIFEM have the tasks of developing the regional network
and network meetings, producing regional fact sheets, communicating
with WEDO and ensuring information exchange between WEDO and
the regional network. The regional focal and contact points
are gathered for the first time at the second part of the third
PrepCom in New York from 15. - 19. October 2001.
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Women's
Caucus:
Political
Statement - Monterrey, Mexico 19 March
Women Caucus
Statement
on partnership for financing gender-sensitive, people-centered
sustainable development - Monterrey, Mexico 19 March
WIDE
Position Paper:
"Observations
and Demands from a Gender Perspective"
(word.doc)[19-02-002]
WEDO-Women's
Caucus Assesment
of the 4th FfD January PrepCom 2002 - 28 January 2002
Women's
Caucus Statement
,25 January
Women
Caucus' Letter
to The New York Times, 16.January
Daily
summary reports from the 4th Prep.Com, New York,
14-25 January, 2002.
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Consultations strengthened:
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In preparation for October Prep.Com the women's consultation fora
has developed inputs for a global advocacy document. Six
issue papers have been produced in preparation of the meeting,
and a Gender
Audit Analysis of the latest version of the Facilitator's
draft outcome document has been prepared by Maria Floro, UNIFEM
Advisor on Financing for Development. A new global advocacy document
will be prepared in time for the January 2002 PrepCom.
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Regional focal points: |
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To strengthen the regional inputs to the international preparations
WEDO went in partnership with UNIFEM to coordinate and fund regional
focal and contact points in Africa,
Asia, Latin America and the countries
in the CEE/NIS. For more on regional
activities, see calendar.
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AFRICA:
- Fact Sheet on Trade
- Fact
Sheet on Debt
CEE/NIS:
- Mobilizing
of Domestic Resources...
- External and
Internal Debt...
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KULU
participated in the first Women's Consultation meeting in February
2001 as the only European representative of women's organizations. After the meeting KULU took
upon herself to inquire about the interest of other Nordic/European
women NGOs and networks.
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