Feminist Propositions for a Just Economy

AWID, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), and the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), offers this think piece to challenge mainstream understandings of development and put forward initial propositions for a feminist agenda for development, economic and gender justice.

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The propositions

These propositions are intended to be just that - proposals, to be discussed, debated, added to, taken apart, adapted, adopted, and even to inspire others.

Solidarity Economy

The solidarity economy is an alternative framework that is allowing for different forms in different contexts, open to continual change.

Feminist propositions: Community Knowledges (610x470)

Community knowledge to build just futures

Human beings are a part  of nature, we depend on nature and are inter-dependent among ourselves.

Agroecology and Food Sovereignty

Breaking with the hegemonic rural development model based on large landed estates and single-crop plantations.

Feminist propositions: Democratizing access to resources (610x470)

Reclaiming the Commons

The concept of the commons pre-dates the individual property regime and provided the basis for organization of society.

Feminist propositions: Alternative framework (610x470)

Alternative framework for economic governance

Within this context of macroeconomic policies fiscal and monetary policies are key.

Our partners

This project is built in collaboration with:

Feminist propositions: Degrowth (610x470)

Challenging the economic growth model

A de-growth model proposes a shift towards a sustainable level of production and consumption.

Feminist Alternatives Project

By The Gender & Development Network