Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development
Webinar Series
Macro Solutions for Women, the People and the Planet
A series of action-oriented dialogues on the macro agendas and the current crises
The health crisis derived from the expansion of the new coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) exposed the pre-existing economic and financial weaknesses at the international level, shadowing the global outlook due to the collapse of trade and investment, the worsening debt and the impact on development financing flows in developing and low-income countries.
In order to make visible the implications of these measures on the well-being of Women, the People and the Planet, it is important to start from a large-scale framework that enables the analysis of global phenomena that have a local impact.
This is where we talk about macroeconomics with violet lens. This implies analyzing how market activities, financial deregulation and the existing bias in governments that prioritize low public spending and low taxes to achieve minimum budget deficits have a negative effect on the fullfilment of human rights.
A very clear example is that such policies impose new burdens of unpaid domestic and care work on women, due to the reduction in public provision that prevents a fair redistribution of care work. For this reason, it is argued that fiscal, trade and monetary policies have an impact on the lives and freedom of women and girls.
In this series of virtual conferences, experts from around the world will dialogue to identify solutions to these impacts from a feminist perspective, so that during the process of addressing the health, economic and financial crisis no more inequalities and additional setbacks are generated for women, and to urge feminist responses to the current and future crises.
Save the date:
- May 27: Financial and gender impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
- June 11: Now is the time to act on debt from a feminist perspective
- June 17: A Global Regime of Intellectual Property Rights and Trade: Who will benefit from the new solutions for the pandemic and the upcoming famine?
- July 1: Taxation for Redistributive justice: Solutions for Women, the People, and the Planet
- July 15: Feminists want system change, not climate change! In search of a decolonial, feminist global green new deal
- July 29: Care and Labor Rights: Challenges from the Capitalist Pandemic
- August 12: Global processes and the future of humanity
- August 26: Capital versus life? Financialization & financial extractivism
- September 9: Human rights & public good: Preconditions to digitalization of economy
Co-Convenors Women’s Working Group on FfD:
Rosa Lizarde, Global Director, Feminist Task Force, Global Director; and Co-Convenor, Women’s Working Group on FfD. rosa.lizarde@feministtaskforce.org
Emilia Reyes, Program Director, Policies and Budgets for Equality and Sustainable Development, at Gender Equity: Citizenship, Work and Family; and Co-Convenor, Women’s Working Group on FfD. emilia@equidad.org.mx
In Equidad de Genero we will be publishing reviews [EN-ES] of the webinar series, which will be available on Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development YouTube channel.
