The Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (WWG on FfD), an alliance of women’s rights organizations and networks, was launched in October 2007 to advocate for the advancement of gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights in the FfD related UN processes.  

• The Third High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development, 23-25 October 2007 saw an upsurge in civil society participation. Aside from the six round table sessions, there were hearings for civil society and the business sector.
• AWID delivered a statement at the plenary on behalf of Civil Society calling for governments to give greater attention to the importance of women’s rights organizations as agents of development, and the need to promote new mechanisms for financing for women in developing and least developed countries. The statement urged governments to give greater support to gender architecture in the United Nations so that the system as a whole could make progress in terms of its commitment to gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights, including the economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of all persons. 

• Towards The Third International Conference On Financing For Development: Old Tensions And New Challenges, by Nicole Bidegain Ponte/DAWN (March 2015)

•  ‘A geopolitical Analysis of Financing for Development’ by Regions Refocus 2015 and Third World Network (TWN) with DAWN.

• The Zero Draft Language Map, by Regions Refocus

• ‘Addis Ababa financing conference: Will the means undermine the goals?‘ by RightingFinance

AWID is closely monitoring the global COVID 19 situation and for now anticipates continuing with the Forum as planned.

If at any moment the situation demands  something different, we  will let you know right away.

The 14th AWID International Forum is scheduled to take place 20-23 September 2021 in Taipei,.

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This section highlights key resources recommended by AWID so you can conduct your own WITM research.

In this section

• People needed
• Potential expenses
• Estimated time
• Resources needed
• Resources available

People needed

• 1 or more person(s) to lead overall implementation of research methodology and ensure all key pieces are on track (Sections 2-11)
• 1 or more person(s) to conceptualize the key research objectives and guiding questions
• 1 or more person(s) to refine and conduct the research methodology, including collecting data
• 1 or more person(s) to conduct relevant qualitative and quantitative analysis of collected data
• 1 or more person(s) to document and package research findings for desired audience(s)
• 1 or more person(s) to serve as an editor to your final products
• 1 or more person(s) to conduct outreach to spread the word about your survey and advocacy using your research results

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Potential expenses

1. Staff and/or consultant salaries
2. Data analysis software if conducting analysis of large dataset in-house. Options:
   - SPSS
   - Stata
   - R (this is free)
3. Cost of producing publications and research products
4. If desired, incentive prize that survey participants can win if they complete the survey
5. If desired, incentives to offer your advisors

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Estimated time

• For research process: 6 to 18 months, depending on size of dataset(s) and staff capacity
• For advocacy: 1-2 years, as determined by your organizational goals

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Resources needed

• List of advisor organizations, donors and activists
• List of online spaces and events/networks to distribute your survey and present your survey results
• List of donors, activists, and women’s rights organizations to interview
• Prepared interview questions
• List of publication sources to use for desk research

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Resources available

• Sample 1 of Research Framing
• Sample 2 of Research Framing
• Example: 2011 WITM Global Survey
• Sample WITM Global Survey
• Sample letter to grantmakers requesting access to databases
• AWID Sample Interview Questions: Donors
• AWID Sample Interview Questions: Activists & Women’s Rights Organizations
• Sample Advocacy Plan

Online tools

• Survey Monkey: Free
• Survey Gizmo: Converts to SPSS for analysis very easily
• Tutorial: Gentle Introduction to Cleaning Data
• Visualization Tools
• “Ready to Go?” Worksheet

Once you gather these resources, you can estimate the costs for your research using our “Ready to Go? Worksheet”

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