Resources on Financing for Development and the Financial Crisis
Brief series: The crisis’ impact on women’s rights
AWID is pleased to announce the launching of our latest Brief series: The crisis’ impact on women’s rights. This series presents different sub-regional perspectives on the impacts of the crisis on women’s rights.
Read more...G20 & the IMF: Peddling Cosmetic Changes while Hounded by Illegitimacy
Statement of the Women's Working Group on Financing for Development for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, September 2009
Read more...High Diplomacy and Fragile Consensus Limit UN to Development Cooperation
The central role of the United Nations, or the G192, in economic governance nearly vanished!
Read more...Civil Society Key Recommendations for the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development and its follow-up
The outcome document of this UN High Level Conference should reflect the urgency of the situation and contain short-term measures, to be implemented immediately as a response to the crisis.
Read more...Time to Act: Women Cannot Wait
A call for rights based responses to the global financial and economic crisis.
Read more...Will We Hear the Voices of Those Not Heard Before?
Will political leaders at the Doha conference finally take the lead to advance political will for a new multilateralism?
Read more...Civil Society Benchmarks for the Doha Preparatory Process on Financing for Development
Since the 2002 Monterrey Conference, financial flows to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other internationally agreed goals, especially in the South have remained grossly inadequate, unpredictable, and volatile. June 27, 2008
Read more...Civil Society Key Recommendations for Doha Draft Outcome Document:
August 30, 2008
Analyses carried out by civil society organizations for the review process on Financing for Development (FfD) highlight the fact that governments are facing a double challenge at the upcoming FfD Conference in Doha:
Read more...Statement of the Doha NGO Group on Financing for Development (DNG):
This statement has been developed on the basis of the policy positions put forward by the Doha NGO Group on Financing for Development at the International Review Conference on Financing for Development, civil society statements made at the ECOSOC panel discussion on “Civil Society Perspectives on the Financing for Development Agenda” (April 20, 2009) and the Civil Society Forum (April 26, 2009).
Read more...WWG on FfD Statement by IGTN and NETRIGHT
Apr 17-25, 2008 UNCTAD XII and Civil Society Forum. The global economy is in mayhem as credit woes and rising food prices simultaneously release shockwaves across countries.
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