AWID Forum: Co-creating Feminist Futures
In September 2016, the 13th AWID international Forum brought together in Brazil over 1800 feminists and women’s rights advocates in a spirit of resistance and resilience.
This section highlights the gains, learnings and resources that came out of our rich conversations. We invite you to explore, share and comment!
What has happened since 2016?
One of the key takeaways from the 2016 Forum was the need to broaden and deepen our cross-movement work to address rising fascisms, fundamentalisms, corporate greed and climate change.
With this in mind, we have been working with multiple allies to grow these seeds of resistance:
- Our Seed Initiatives, has helped 20 ideas that emerged at the Forum to grow into concrete actions
- The video “Defending people and planet” and guide “Weaving resistance through action” put courageous WHRDs in the spotlight and present concrete strategies they use to confront corporate power.
- With our animations about the State of Our Feminist Movements and Climate and Environmental Justice, movements now have creative tools to support their advocacy work.
- The compiling artistic expressions of our #MovementsMatter series continues to inspire stronger and more creative organizing around the world.
- Movements can also benefit from new methodologies on Visioning Feminist Futures (Coming up soon!)
And through our next strategic plan and Forum process, we are committed to keep developing ideas and deepen the learnings ignited at the 2016 Forum.
What happens now?
The next AWID Forum will take place in the Asia Pacific region (exact location and dates to be announced in 2018).
We look forward to you joining us!
About the AWID Forum
AWID Forums started in 1983, in Washington DC. Since then, the event has grown to become many things to many peoples: an iterative process of sharpening our analyses, vision and actions; a watershed moment that reinvigorates participants’ feminisms and energizes their organizing; and a political home for women human rights defenders to find sanctuary and solidarity.
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6. Menez une recherche documentaire
La recherche documentaire peut se dérouler tout au long de votre initiative. Elle peut vous aider à encadrer vos travaux, à choisir des questions de sondage et à comprendre vos résultats.
Dans cette section
- Préciser le contexte
- S’appuyer sur les connaissances existantes
- Sources éventuelles d’information pour la recherche documentaire
1. Sites Web et rapports annuels des donateurs
2. Sources d’information en ligne
Préciser le contexte
La réalisation de recherches documentaires tout au long de votre initiative peut vous aider à encadrer vos travaux, à choisir les questions de sondage et à vous fournir une clarté contextuelle, tout en rehaussant votre compréhension des résultats de votre sondage. Vous pourriez notamment comparer les similarités et les différences entre les résultats de votre sondage et l’information diffusée par la société civile et les donateurs.
Il se peut que vous déceliez des tendances dans les résultats de votre sondage et que vous souhaitiez mieux les comprendre.
Par exemple, vos données de sondage pourraient révéler que les budgets des organisations diminuent, mais cela ne vous dit pas pour quelle raison cette situation se produit. L’analyse des publications vous donne un contexte et vous révèle certaines des raisons pour lesquelles ces tendances surviennent.
Exploiter les connaissances existantes
La recherche documentaire garantit également que vous appuyez votre recherche sur les connaissances existantes touchant à votre sujet d’intérêt, confirmant ainsi la validité et la pertinence de vos résultats.
Vos résultats pourraient être complémentaires ou contradictoires par rapport aux connaissances actuelles, mais ils doivent faire référence aux données existantes sur le sujet.
Pour que votre recherche soit complète et englobe tout le panorama du financement qui entoure votre sujet, examinez une gamme de secteurs de financement.
Vous pouvez notamment considérer :
- Les fonds pour les femmes
- Les fondations privées et publiques
- Les organisations non gouvernementales internationales (ONGI)
- Les agences bilatérales et multilatérales
- Les acteurs et actrices du secteur privé
- Les philanthropes
- Les groupes de financement participatif
Inclure tout secteur pertinent dans le cadre de référence de votre recherche.
Par exemple, vous pourriez décider qu’il est important d’effectuer des recherches sur les organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) locales.
Sources éventuelles d’information pour la recherche documentaire (liste non exhaustive)
1. Sites Web et rapport annuels des donateurs
Voici des sources directes d’information sur les actions des bailleurs de fonds qui contiennent habituellement des renseignements sur les politiques et les budgets. Si vous réalisez vos recherches avant d’interviewer les donateurs, vos questions seront mieux ciblées et vos interviews plus solides.
2. Sources d’information en ligne
- Alliance Magazine (en anglais)
- Lettre d'information du Council on Foundations (en anglais)
- Blogs & nouvelles de Devex (en anglais)
- Ressources du Foundation Center (en anglais)
- Les articles rédigés par les activistes et les organisations faisant partie de votre population cible
- La liste des donateurs de l’AWID (en anglais)
- Philanthropy Journal (en anglais)
- Institute of Development Studies (en anglais)
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Temps estimé :
• 1-2 mois
Personnel requis :
• 1 personne (ou plus) chargée de la recherche
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7. Synthétisez les résultats de votre recherche
Êtes-vous prêts-tes ?
Vous demandez le nom du groupe, de l’organisation et/ou du mouvement qui répond aux questions de l’enquête, et ses coordonnées – pour quelle raison?
Nous demandons ces données pour faciliter l’examen des réponses, éviter les doublons et pouvoir vous contacter si votre groupe n’a pas pu terminer le questionnaire et/ou vous répondre si vous avez des doutes ou des questions. Des informations sur la manière dont nous utilisons les informations personnelles collectées lors de notre travail sont disponibles ici.
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5 Major Threats
In the current context, we have identified five major threats to the struggle towards feminist just economies.
1. Financialisation of the world economy.
“Financialisation refers to the increasing importance of financial markets, financial motives, financial institutions, and financial elites in the operation of the economy and its governing institutions both at the national and international levels”. - Gerald Epstein
Epstein Gerald A. 2006: Financialization and the World Economy. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Financial institutions exert a strong influence over economic governance and the direction of development policy. The growing dominance of the corporate sector and international financial institutions in defining local and global public policies, has resulted in the capture of the State in the interest of capital. The current financial system, including controversial credit and debt policies, are integral to the reproduction and expansion of capital accumulation processes.
This raises important questions of how to regulate and re-think the global financial system, not only to avoid serious negative consequences of debt-driven crises,but to allow for sustainable livelihoods and the realization of economic and social rights without retrogression.
For more details, see the article by Balakrishnan and Heintz “Debt, Power, and Crisis: Social Stratification and the Inequitable Governance of Financial Markets”
2. Harmful trade agreements.
For the past 20 years, trade agreements (both bilateral or multilateral) have expanded their role demonstrating increased interest in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to be given to corporations.
IPR has clearly benefitted transnational corporations with huge impacts on the ability of poorer nations and peoples to realize human rights, notably:
- the right to food,
- the right to conserve,
- the right to use and sell seeds, and
- the right to access to essential medicines.
In addition, agriculture import liberalisation resulting in an influx of cheap goods jeopardise women’s self-employed farmers in poor countries and food security. Investment protection clauses included in trade agreements limit the policy space of national governments to create and enforce regulations on issues as crucial as environmental protection, labour rights, and the duration of copyrights.
Feminist movements have been, and are, at the forefront of resistance to these agreements exposing its pitfalls.
(See for example, the reactions by feminist networks around the globe to both the Transatlantic and TransPacific Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement negotiations.)
3. Unprecedented scale of threat to ecosystems and biodiversity.
The commodification of the Earth’s resources and resulting environmental degradation and climate change produced by decades of aggressive industrialisation, plunder and extractivism of the world’s resources, have damaged biodiversity and ecological resilience. These damages are now threatening the existence of human society itself.
The international community has failed to address production and consumption patterns sitting at the root of the problem. Instead, governments –with the support of large corporations interested in making a profit - are leaning towards a “green economy” approach promoting “energy-efficient technologies” (including nuclear energy, biofuels, genetically modified organisms and geo-engineering) and carbon trade schemes as the silver bullet.
4.Commodification of land and accelerating global phenomenon of land and resource grabbing.
While the processes of land and resource appropriation is not new – in fact, they are central struggles in colonial histories- what is new is the advanced means by which land and natural resource wealth are becoming commodities in new markets.
International Financial Institutions play a central role in promoting land markets in developing countries. These institutions finance land reforms that enable powerful actors to use land for speculative gain in exchange of meagre promises of jobs and growth. Land-grabbing has far reaching negative impacts on local peoples’ access to essential goods and services apart from displacement and environmental degradation that are associated with it.
People who are resisting land grabbing, among them women human rights defenders, face diverse forms of violence including physical attacks and sexual abuse, on a daily basis.
5. Entrenched patriarchal foundations that structure the capitalist system
This patriarchal foundation is particularly hegemonic in today’s neoliberal models.
The many ways in which political economy and development are connected to sexuality or gender is evident: think how capitalism defines what can even be characterized as labour and ties human worth to wage-labour productivity.
For the most part, women’s position in the global economy continues to be one of gender-based labour exploitation with women’s work undervalued in precarious jobs, domestic subsistence, reproduction, and in unwaged household production. Because reproductive labour has been naturalized as women's unpaid work, it has provided an immense subsidy to capitalism at the same time as a source of gender oppression and subjugation.
This situation is aggravated by the fact that as social protection mechanisms begin to dwindle, women’s care burden increases.
Further, the phenomenon of global migration spurred on by thousands of economic refugees escaping oppressive poverty across the globe is not estranged to that of capitalist gender power relations. Remittances become a major source of development financing for the families and communities, but at a major cost for women migrants who struggle to earn a living wage in their new country.
In the same vein, we have seen how patriarchal capitalist systems are using violence and oppression to maintain their status quo. Rising global expenditures in militarism and violence, both perpetrated by state and non-state actors, is increasingly used to control dissent, women’s bodies and voice and settle economic, political and social disputes.
Across the world, violence, incarceration and discrimination disproportionately targets
- women, communities of colour,
- indigenous peoples,
- people with disabilities,
- sex workers,
- impoverished people, and
- LGBTQI people.
An intersectional analysis linking gender, race, ethnicity, age, ability, nationality, sexual orientation and gender identity, among other status is needed to challenge structural violence and its links with a capitalist global system.
A profound crisis in the current global governance system is also evident in the feeble inter-governmental agreements reached and how they often lack the most fundamental accountability mechanisms. The multilateral system that served global governance before is failing to respond to the current multiple crises. The same system continues to be deeply undemocratic, with increasing presence and power by corporations occupying the spaces where States used to be.
Rethinking, Renewing & Reactivating
These threats challenge feminists to re-think our framework and strategies. To renew and reactivate our commitment to movement building with others for a just economy.
They challenge us to consider broad agendas for socio-economic transformations, from a feminist perspective, in ways that address the realities of the majority of the impoverished. Now is the time to bring about change for a just economy and to address the persistent systemic challenges.
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When will survey results be available?
We will analyze the survey responses, derive insights and trends, and present the results during the 15th AWID International Forum in Bangkok, and online, in December 2024. Register to attend the Forum here!
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L'Argentine a une longue histoire d’autogestion et de coopérativisme, avec des lieux de travail dirigés par et pour les travailleur·euses.
En 2001, le pays a connu l'une des pires crises économiques de son histoire.
En réponse à la récession et comme forme de résistance et de résilience, les travailleur·euses de tout le pays ont commencé à occuper leurs lieux de travail.
La Coopérative Textile Nadia Echazú a été la première coopérative créée par et pour les personnes trans et travesti en quête d'autonomie économique et de conditions de vie dignes.
Elle offre des opportunités d'emploi, l’accès à la sécurité sociale, des revenus durables et des droits économiques aux communautés qu'elle sert.
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Teresa Scalzo, Esq.
Reivindicar los bienes comunes
Definición
La activista y académica Soma Kishore Parthasarathy señala que existen diversas formas de pensar los bienes comunes.
En un sentido más convencional, se los entiende como recursos naturales destinados a ser usados por quienes dependen de su uso. Sin embargo, el concepto de «bienes comunes» se ha expandido para incluir recursos como los conocimientos, la herencia, la cultura, espacios virtuales e incluso el clima. Es un concepto anterior al régimen de propiedad individual y que aportó las bases para la organización social. Las definiciones que aportan las entidades gubernamentales limitan su alcance a los recursos de la tierra y materiales.
El concepto de los bienes comunes se apoya en la práctica cultural de compartir espacios de subsistencia y recursos como dones de la naturaleza, para el bien común, y para la sostenibilidad de lo que es común a todxs.
Contexto
Los bienes comunes de la humanidad están cada vez más amenazados porque las naciones y fuerzas del mercado continúan colonizándolos, explotándolos y ocupándolos.
En algunos contextos favorables, los «bienes comunes» tienen el potencial de habilitar una posición de autonomía sobre todo para las mujeres bajo opresión económica desde la que pueden negociar sus múltiples necesidades y aspiraciones.
Perspectiva feminista
Cuando a las mujeres y a otros géneros oprimidos se les niega el acceso a los bienes comunes y la posibilidad de controlarlos, se refuerza el patriarcado.
Por eso, una economía feminista busca restaurar los derechos legítimos de las comunidades a estos recursos comunes. Esa autonomía les permite mantenerse a sí mismas al mismo tiempo que desarrollan sistemas más igualitarios de gobernabilidad y de uso de esos recursos. Una economía feminista reconoce los roles de las mujeres y les ofrece las mismas oportunidades para tomar decisiones, es decir, las coloca en igualdad de condiciones como demandantes de esos recursos.

Para leer más acerca de esta propuesta:
- Reclamando los bienes comunes para la justicia de género y económica: Luchas y movimientos en la India es una entrevista con la académica Soma Kishore Parthasarathy acerca de cómo las mujeres en la India rural están confrontando esta realidad y proponiendo una gestión compartida de los recursos comunes.
- Feminism And The Politics Of The Commons (en inglés) [El feminismo y la política de los bienes comunes] de Silvia Federici analiza la política de los bienes comunes desde una posición feminista determinada por la lucha contra la discriminación sexual y el trabajo reproductivo para aclarar en qué condiciones el principio de los bienes comunes se puede convertir en fundamento de un programa anticapitalista.
- En español y de la misma autora se puede leer Feminismo, capitalismo, bienes comunales y caza de brujas.
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من يجب أن يجيب على الاستطلاع؟
الاستطلاع هذا مخصّص للمجموعات، المنظمات والحركات التي تعمل بالأساس أو فقط على حقوق النساء، أفراد مجتمع الميم - عين، والحقوق الجندرية، في جميع السياقات، على جميع المستويات، وفي جميع المناطق. إن كان واحد من هذه المبادئ اساسًا لمجموعتكم/ن، تنظيمكم/ن أو شبكتكم/ن، أو أي نوع تنظيم آخر، إن كان مسجلاً أم لا، جديداً أو طويل العمر، ندعوكم/ن للإجابة على الاستطلاع.

*في الوقت الحالي، لا نطلب من الأفراد أو الصناديق النسوية أو النسائية تعبئة الاستطلاع.
تعرف على المزيد حول الاستطلاع: راجع/ي الأسئلة الشائعة
Snippet FEA Lohana Berkins (EN)
One of the founding leaders of the cooperative was Lohana Berkins, an activist, defender and promoter of transgender identity. Lohana played a crucial role in the struggle for the rights of trans and travesti people.
This brought about, among many other things, the passing of the Gender Identity Law. It is one of the most progressive legislations in the world, guaranteeing fundamental rights to trans and travesti people. Now, people can change their names and genders only with an affidavit, and have access to comprehensive healthcare without judicial or medical intervention/approval (Outright International, 2012).
Esperanza Brito
Guadalupe Campanur Tapia
Guadalupe was an environmental activist involved in the fight against crime in Cherán, Mexico.
Guadalupe helped to overthrow the local government in April 2011 and participated in local security patrols including those in municipal forests. She was among the Indigenous leaders of Cherán, who called on people to defend their forests against illegal and merciless logging. Her work for seniors, children, and workers made her an icon in her community.
She was killed in Chilchota, Mexico about 30 kilometers north of her hometown of Cherá.