Special Focus – Financing gender equality
As the final countdown to the adoption of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda in September 2015 has started, it is time to reflect on the resources needed to translate the political commitments towards gender equality into real transformative change for women and girls. With the Third International Conference on Fnancing for Development around the corner, we are taking the opportunity to focus on this important topic for gender equality.
Special focus in the news
- Women’s empowerment: The ‘DNA’ of post-2015 development and financing (Devex 27.07.2015)
- UN Women Executive Director writes on Financing for Development (Pravda.ru 24.07.2015)
- Financing for gender equality (The Nation 18.07.2015)
- Addis delegates failed to put money where mouth was on gender equality (The Guardian 17.07.2015)
- Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development Reaction to the Outcome Document of the Third FfD Conference: Addis Ababa Action Agenda (wwgonffd.org 17.07.2015)
- ADDIS: successful outcome at UN financing conference vital for future development agenda – Ban (UN News Centre 15.07.2015)
- ADDIS: investing in gender equality vital to economic growth, sustainable development, says Ban (UN News Centre 14.07.2015)
- Financing our future: the role of tax and aid (Bond – Blog 14.07.2015)
- Addis: investing in gender equality vital to economic growth, sustainable development, says Ban (UN News Centre 14.07.2015)
- Addis Ababa development finance summit: all you need to know (The Guardian 13.07.2015)
- Will Development Financing Finally Level the Playing Field for Women and Girls? (The Huffington Post 09.07.2015)
- The Bumpy Road to Addis (FfD3): What’s at Stake for Women’s Rights (AWID 08.07.2015)
- A long way from Monterrey to Addis: Placing an effective global partnership at the heart of development processes (AWID 08.07.2015)
- Africa’s Aspirations On Post-2015 Agenda (AllAfrica 04.07.2015)
- Maria Kiwanuka advises on gender equity financing (newvision.co.ug 01.07.2015)
- Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals (Council on Foreign Relations – Blog 30.06.2015)
- Does the gender budget empower women? (Dhaka Tribune 26.06.2015)
- Development finance’s $83bn question: who will pay for gender equality? (The Guardian 25.06.2015)
- Power Point by Professor Shirley Randell as presented at Political Will & Public Will: Fine Tuning for Gender Advocacy Panel (UN Human Rights Council – Geneva, 22.06.2015)
- Negotiating the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda (cfr.org 10.06.2015)
- Gender Equality Can’t Be Ignored If We Want Global Progress: Report (The Huffington Post 26.05.2015)
- Third International Conference on Fnancing for Development (Official website)