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WEDO Events
Join WEDO and our allies at the following events (organized by theme) at CSW68!
FEMINIST ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Strategy Session: Financing Feminist Economic and Climate Justice
13 March | 2-4PM ET
Convened by WEDO and the Center for Economic and Social Rights
This small, invite-only workshop will discuss upcoming opportunities for collective advocacy around debt, tax, and climate finance. Please email Katie Tobin (katie@wedo.org) for more info.
Indigenous Women and Young Women’s Vision on Economic Justice and Addressing Poverties
15 March | 8:15-9:45AM ET
Location: Permanent Mission of Mexico (2 United Nations Plaza, 28th Fl)
Convened by Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA), International Indigenous Women’s Forum (IIWF-FIMI), Government of Mexico
This event will highlight the vision and proposals on economic justice and the multidimensionality of poverties of indigenous women and young women, and contribute to building strategic alliances among indigenous organizations, governments, UN agencies,
civil society and other agents to aim towards economic justice. Bridget Burns, WEDO’s Executive Director, will be a speaker in the panel.
Amplifying and Centering Feminist Demands in the Beyond GDP Agenda
18 March | 8:30-10AM ET
Location: Salvation Army Lower Level, 221 E. 52nd St., New York
Convened by Oxfam GB, Akina Mama wa Afrika, WEDO, Bretton Woods Project, Christian Aid, ActionAid, Public Services International, Greenpeace, and Center for Economic and Social Rights
This event will spotlight the growing global consensus of the need to move beyond GDP in order to measure what matters — and transform economies to prioritize the wellbeing of people and planet.
Revolutionizing Public Services in the Global South: Paving the Way to Gender Justice through Transformative Feminist Economic Policies
19 March | 4:30-6PM ET
Location: Church Center for the UN, 2nd Fl, 777 UN Plaza, New York
Convened by ActionAid International, Global Movements of Young Urban Women, Akina Mama wa Afrika, Oxfam, Public Services International, Trade Collective, Feminist Macro-Economics Alliance, and WEDO
This session will leverage feminist political thought aimed at advancing advocacy for feminist well-being economies, as a key avenue for strengthening social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality.
FEMINIST CLIMATE JUSTICE
Funding Locally-led Gender-Just Climate Action
12 March | 8-9:30AM ET
Location: Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, 320 East 43rd Street, New York
Convened by Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) and Global Affairs Canada
RSVP required
This discussion will focus on the intersection of climate and gender justice – specifically on financing mechanisms for gender-just climate solutions.
Standing Stronger than Ever: Pacific Feminists Defending the Living Planet
13 March | 9AM-11AM ET
Location: Blue Gallery, 222 East 46th St., New York
RSVP full name as on ID and org/affiliation to: viva@divafiji.org, frances@divafiji.org
This event will amplify the urgency of the messages of the the Pacific Feminist Defending the Living Planet Campaign, highlighting the work of grassroots communities towards climate justice. WEDO Senior Program Manager Katie Tobin will be one of the speakers.
Gender-Responsiveness of Climate Finance: Lessons Learned and Opportunities to Pursue
14 March, 10:45am-12pm ET
Location: Church of Sweden, 5 E 48th St, New York
Convened by ACT Alliance, Christian Aid, and many others
WEDO Senior Program Manager Tara Daniel will provide closing remarks at this event, which will highlight examples of gender transformative approaches to climate action and advocate for the power of gender-responsive finance to turn words into action.
How to make the new Loss and Damage Fund gender-responsive
18 March | 2:30-4PM ET
Location: Church Center, 8th Fl, 777 UN Plaza, New York
The approval of a new Loss & Damage Fund at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai was a historical milestone. What lessons learned from existing climate funding mechanisms, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF), must the newest climate fund apply to ensure its operational policies and funding approaches are truly gender-responsive? What is needed for the Loss & Damage Fund to provide both gender justice and climate justice?
Disaster risk reduction
Launch of the Gender Action Plan to Support Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
18 March 2024, 1:15-2:30
Location: Conference Room 6, UN Headquarters, New York
Convened by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, UN Women, UNFPA, Australia, the Philippines, Norway
This launch event seeks to generate commitments to implement the Sendai Gender Action Plan (GAP) from a range of stakeholders, kick start implementation of the Sendai GAP, and share and celebrate good practices in gender-responsive disaster risk reduction. WEDO’s Senior Global Policy Lead, Mwanahamisi Singano, will offer her perspectives as one of the speakers.
SRHR AND CLIMATE JUSTICE
The Imperative of Financing SRHR for Climate Justice
15 March, 2:30-4PM
Location: Church Center for the UN, 8th Floor, New York
Gender and Environment Data
Gender and Environment Data Alliance: Members’ Meetup
20 March, 3-5PM
Location: Near UN Headquarters, New York
This informal gathering of members of the Gender and Environment Data Alliance will allow space for collective strategizing and networking. Open to current GEDA members only.
Women’s Major Group
Hidden Hours: Feminist Solutions to Energy, Water, and Menstrual Poverty
19 March 2024, 8:30-10:00AM ET
Location: Church Center for the UN, 10th Fl, 777 UN Plaza, New York
Convened by the Women’s Major Group and WECF
Through interactive roundtable discussions, key experts will gather recommendations on how to strengthen gender-transformative initiatives to tackle energy, water and menstrual poverty.
Feminist Perspectives towards a Care Economy and the Role of the International Financial Architecture Reform
20 March 2024, 3 – 4:15pm
Location: Conference Room 6, UN Headquarters, New York
Convened by the Permanent Mission of Spain, UN Women, GWL-Voices, OHCHR, and the Women’s Major Group
RSVP: bit.ly/CSW68CareSideEvent
This side event aims to explore how feminist perspectives can inform international financial architecture reforms by addressing disparities in care and support work and their impact on gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, sexual and reproductive health needs and services, social protection programs, and public services and accessible infrastructure and technologies, and equal participation in the society. and provide concrete recommendations towards building economies and societies with care, equality and human rights at the center.
