Resources on Financing for Development and the Financial Crisis
Women’s Consultation Declaration
June 16-17, 2008 ECOSOC Development Cooperation Forum
In 2002, heads of State and Government gathered in Monterrey, Mexico and adopted a set of actions addressing the inter-connected challenges of financing for development around the world, particularly in developing countries.
Read more...WWG on FfD Intervention
This set of proposals that substantively address women’s inter-linking concerns in the Monterrey Consensus was discussed and adopted at a women’s consultation meeting convened by the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development in New York on June 16 and 17 2008.
Read more...Pre-Doha WWG on FfD Statement ‘Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in Financing for Development’
Nov 29-Dec 2, 2008 Doha Review Conference on Financing for Development (Nov 2008)
Read more...WWG on FfD Intervention at ECOSOC Panel Discussion on ‘Civil Society Perspectives on the FfD Agenda’
Apr 27, 2009 ECOSOC-BWIs-WTO-UNCTAD Spring Meeting. ‘Addressing the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on development, including issues related to the international financial and monetary architecture and global governance structures.’
Read more...WWG on FfD Summary of Proposals to Reform the International Monetary and Financial System
Feb-Mar 2009 Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
Read more...WWG on FfD Intervention at ‘Interactive Expert Panel on the Emerging Issue: The Gender Perspectives of the Financial Crisis’
Mar 5, 2009. Commission on the Status of Women.
Read more...Making governments accountable and aid transparent for women’s rights and gender equality
Statement of the Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD) at the DCF High Level Symposium, Vienna, 12-13 November 2009
Read more...Briefs: The Impact of the crisis on Women
This series presents different sub-regional perspectives on the impacts of the crisis on women’s rights.
Read more...Statement to the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum UN-DCF
BetterAid recognises the potential and positive role that the UN-DCF could play as part of reenvisioning the current nature and governance of development cooperation. The UN-DCF remains an inclusive and universal forum, bringing together the full membership of the United Nations (UN) with a diverse range of stakeholders.
Read more...Sugary words at the UN Development Cooperation Forum must translate into action if we are to reach the Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations Development Cooperation Forum, meeting yesterday and today, has seen some progressive rhetoric on development, but as the second day of this crucially timed event gets under way, civil society platform BetterAid[1] asks whether the UN member states can go beyond well-intentioned statements and translate words into action.
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