Call for Sessions
Join us in advancing gender equality on the worldwide financing agenda!
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Are you a feminist group feeling the monetary pinch in your struggle for equality?
Are you difficult the system to put gender fairness on the middle of public budgets and policy-making? Do you need to see extra non-public {dollars} genuinely drive change via ladies’s funds within the Majority World? Or maybe you’re prepared to break, reshape, and rewrite the very guidelines that make up the funding panorama?
If you answered sure to any of those questions and are prepared for a “fun fight”, we invite you to assist form Financing for Feminist Futures (F4FF). This landmark occasion will deliver collectively researchers, policy-makers, (middleman) funders, and civil society organizations to share concepts, showcase analysis, and strategize for gender-responsive funding options.
Towards a “Common Ask” for resourcing feminist actions
The Common Ask Framework (CAF) is a instrument developed by the Walking the Talk consortium to consolidate and amplify calls for extra and higher funding for feminist actions. This framework is collectively formed by ladies’s funds, gender justice organizations, and feminist actions and researchers from the Majority World. It focuses particularly on feminist resourcing from numerous angles: private and non-private financing, in addition to reshaping the worldwide monetary structure.
While macroeconomic points and system change are undeniably crucial, our prime precedence within the quick to mid-term is to improve financing for feminist civil society. The Common Ask Framework (CAF) displays a united advocacy framework to apply in useful resource mobilization for feminist priorities. Although we’ll formally launch the CAF on the convention, we have now already begun making use of it to drive crucial conversations and collective motion on platforms just like the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4).
In January 2025, we plan to facilitate a smooth launch on-line. By partaking numerous stakeholders, we goal to deepen dialogue across the CAF and advance a financing agenda grounded in feminist values and accountability. Our purpose is to domesticate a inventive and dynamic area for dialogue, amplify transformative approaches, strengthen connections inside the feminist ecosystem, and construct solidarity with international feminist actions.
Session Proposals
To obtain this, we invite daring session proposals that align with our 4 feminist-driven thematic tracks:
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Show us the general public cash
Where’s the funding in gender equality coming from the general public sphere? This observe dives into Official Development Assistance (ODA), new tax methods, local weather funds, and gender bonds to spark change. How will we get governments to actually stroll the speak on financing feminist futures? -
Show us the non-public cash
Is non-public sector funding an ally or an phantasm? This observe explores the position of philanthropy in feminist financing. Let’s focus on how non-public {dollars} can genuinely uplift feminist organizations, particularly these within the Majority World whereas conserving ethics, sustainability, and entry on the middle. -
Time to change (or break?) the foundations
Can we rethink conventional funding and financial programs to lastly deal with international inequalities? Join us to focus on transformative financial fashions—just like the Purple Economy and Care Economy—that break free from colonialist and neoliberal roots, envisioning a feminist financing ecosystem. -
Changing the story
How will we decolonize overseas coverage and reframe diplomacy? In this observe, we’re difficult patriarchal energy buildings, imagining feminist overseas insurance policies rooted in social justice, and drawing classes from numerous actions worldwide.
Explore the conference tracks and 13 selected research projects funded by Walking the Talk, and let these themes encourage your periods, or contemplate collaborating with the researchers as potential co-panelists. Together, we will make feminist priorities a central pillar of world finance. Submit your session proposal and be a part of us in co-creating a world the place feminist views and our collective energy place gender equality on the coronary heart of world monetary choices.
Bring your vitality, deliver your imaginative and prescient, and prepare to make waves!
How to put together and submit your session
Session proposals ought to be submitted here. Organizers will want to create an account with their e-mail, after which they are going to be directed to a submission kind. The kind would require the next data:
- Session description: Provide a compelling title and abstract (200-300 phrases) that highlights the session’s targets, relevance, and meant outcomes. Your session can happen in English, French or Spanish.
- Session codecs and standards: Each session should align with no less than one of many predominant thematic tracks and may clearly articulate its advocacy ask(s). We encourage a spread of partaking codecs, together with panel discussions, workshops, fireplace chats, documentary screenings, and creative performances that foster cross-sector collaboration and dynamic dialogue. Panels, fireplace chats, and roundtable discussions should embody a number of stakeholders to foster wealthy conversations and advocacy throughout sectors. Sessions are designed to bridge a number of views, drawing on numerous experiences, and welcome audio system from numerous areas, with a selected emphasis on voices from the Majority World.
- Thematic observe(s): Specify the primary thematic observe your session aligns with, plus a secondary observe if related.
- Impact: Specify your advocacy ask(s). (200 phrases)
- Audience: Indicate the first viewers (e.g., policymakers, activists, researchers, donors) and any key contributors you hope to appeal to. (200 phrases)
- Speakers: Include a listing of proposed audio system, specifying their nation of residence and affiliation. Sessions ought to goal for range and inclusivity, with a selected curiosity in guaranteeing illustration from the Majority World.
- About your self (and the opposite organizers, if relevant): Tell us how you’re linked to the problems and motion this session addresses (250 phrases).
- Visa and funding: Indicate in the event you want a visa and/or funding to attend Financing for Feminist Futures.
Submission deadline: Submissions are due by Wednesday, 18 December 2024 23:59 CET.
Selection, notification and participation pointers
Funded contributors can be notified in the course of the week of January 13, 2025, and could have seven days to full their registration and ensure their attendance. Self-funded profitable candidates can be notified throughout the week of January 27, 2025.
We reserve the suitable to counsel merging periods if crucial. Additionally, robust proposals that aren’t chosen within the first stage, should still be thought-about if any of the chosen periods can’t proceed.
Submitting a session proposal and taking part within the Financing Feminist Futures Conference is freed from cost. However, we have now a restricted capability of 200 contributors. The Walking the Talk consortium goals to assist the participation (travel and lodging prices) of up to 100 feminists from the Majority World. Please word that submitting a proposal doesn’t assure monetary help from the Walking the Talk consortium.
Background data
In early July 2025, the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) can be held in and hosted by Spain. This high-level intergovernmental occasion, which is supported by the United Nations, goals to remodel the present international monetary structure to handle a broad vary of improvement funding challenges amid the backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, widening inequality, and rising poverty throughout the globe. We know that regardless of rising proof for the necessity and potential impression of feminist or gender-transformative approaches as a path out of those stifling realities, this can more than likely not be on the menu (or on the desk!). That’s why, Financing for Feminist Futures needs to bridge that hole by mobilizing the ability, information, and networks of bad-ass feminists who’re captivated with creating and financing various futures.
