Online Discussion: Mobilising financing for gender equality to deliver on the SDGs in practice

Wikigender would like to invite you to participate in this online discussion on “Mobilising financing for gender equality and women’s rights to deliver on the SDGs in practice” from 22-26 June 2015. It will run in collaboration with the following lead discussants:

• Samina Anwar (@saminahunzukutz) and Zohra Khan (@zohraunwomen), UN Women;
• Chiara Capraro, Christian Aid (@Chiara Capraro);
• Nerea Craviotto (@NereaCraviotto) and Angelika Arutyunova (@angelikaarutyun)(AWID); and
• Emily Esplen (@EmilyEsplen) and Keiko Nowacka (@KeikoNowacka), OECD.

The final countdown to the adoption of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda in September 2015 has started. Throughout the negotiations, governments from all regions of the world have expressed strong support for putting gender equality and women’s rights at the centre of the post-2015 agenda. This strong level of ambition has been explicitly recognised in the report of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which contains a proposal for a standalone goal on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls (SDG5) and integrates gender-sensitive targets throughout the other goals.

However, the experience of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shows that political commitments must be backed by ambitious resources in order to translate into transformative change for women and girls in practice. Mobilising more and smarter investments for gender equality and closing financing gaps in priority areas for the post-2015 framework – including women’s economic empowerment and family planning – will be critical to deliver on political promises. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (July 2015) represents a historic opportunity to endorse a comprehensive global financing framework for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Strong and effective partnerships will also be a critical modality to mobilise the political support, resources and expertise required to deliver on the SDGs. Investing in key partners including national gender machineries, national statistical offices, women’s rights organisations and civil society at the local level will also be key to achieve gender equality and women’s rights in the context of an ambitious post-2015 agenda.

In this context, Wikigender is organising an online discussion on Mobilising financing for gender equality and women’s rights to deliver on the SDGs in practice. This conversation will aim to bring together multiple stakeholders to share evidence, lessons learned, and discuss practical proposals on how to mobilise new and ambitious investments to operationalise the SDGs commitments on gender equality and women’s rights.

• How can existing resources be used more effectively in support of the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights?
• What strategies are effective in increasing domestic resources for gender equality and ensuring that fiscal policies are based on a sound gender analysis?
• How can we better mobilise “non-traditional” donors such as the private sector to step up investments in gender equality? How can agreed standards be used to strengthen accountability for gender equality results in these partnerships?
• What other new initiatives, funds or partnerships are needed to implement the gender equality agenda of the SDGs?

See past Wikigender online discussions.

• OECD (March 2015). From commitment to action: Financing gender equality and women’s rights in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Harper, C., Nowacka, K., Alder, H. and Ferrant, G. (2014). Measuring women’s empowerment and social transformation in the post-2015 agenda. Joint ODI/OECD paper, March 2014.
• AWID (2014). New actors, new money, new conversations. A mapping of recent initiatives for women and girls.
• Christian Aid (2014). Taxing men and women: why gender is crucial for a fair tax system. (English)
• Christian Aid (2015). Impuestos a hombres y mujeres: Por qué el enfoque de género es crucial para un régimen fiscal justo. (Español)
• UN Women. Financing for Gender Equality (Official website)
• Gender and Development Network (June 2015). Making Financing for Development Work for Gender Equality: What is needed at Addis and beyond
• AWID (2013). Watering the Leaves, Starving the Roots
• AWID (2013). Women Moving Mountains

• Gender Equality and Financing for Development

We look forward to your participation! We strongly encourage you to disseminate news about the online discussion via your networks and on Twitter using #genderequality, #FFD3 and #Action2015 and the following link to this page: http://bit.ly/1FWRsfD

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