FfD should be a feminist agenda: Corina Rodríguez Enríquez at Eurodad International Conference 2025

The Financing for Development agenda, with its focus on domestic resource mobilisation, international development cooperation, private finance, sovereign debt and systemic issues, is deeply gendered. The fourth Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) takes place at a time of complex and interconnected crises that have made the feminist agenda for social, economic and climate justice more urgent and challenging. Women are more vulnerable during crises because of gender-based biases and beliefs that prevent them from accessing decision making spaces and resources, pushing them to become overrepresented in the unprotected, precarious, and often neglected informal sector as well as in the most affected sectors such as healthcare services and the care economy (APWLD, 2023). The Covid-19 crisis came with a jump in the number of people living in extreme poverty. By 2022, 3.3 billion people lived in countries that spent more to service their debts than on education and health- areas which have significant impacts on gender equity. Another area of significant impact on the feminist agenda is widespread austerity across all countries. Public sector cuts have devastating impacts on women in particular. Climate chaos and environmental degradation has added pressure on resources that women and girls are dependent on for their health, safety and livelihoods.

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Author(s): Corina Rodríguez Enríquez
Date Published: 2025
Author(s) Region of Origin: Latin America and The Caribbean
Language: English

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