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AWID session participants at the World Social Forum 2011 in Dakar, Senegal.
AWID promotes the participation of women’s rights organizations in international development spaces to ensure that gender equality and women’s rights perspectives are central in development agendas.
Through advocacy work at the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), AWID amplifies the voices of women’s rights advocates and organizations in key development discussions. We build alliances and plan strategies with our partners to influence development policy and practices. Our team also produces and disseminates resource materials to increase the capacity of women’s groups to engage in economic and development policy processes.
To contribute to building a feminist response to the current economic and systemic crisis, we are producing briefs on the impact of the crisis on women’s rights as well as on feminist responses and alternatives.
By Soma Kishore Parthasarathy. Edited by Natalie Raaber, AWID
Within development debates — and particularly discussions on women's "empowerment" — microcredit has and continues to be touted as a tool (indeed, at times, a "magic bullet") to reduce poverty and empower women. AWID asked feminist researcher, activist, and practitioner, Soma K. Parthasarathy, to share her experiences, reflections and analysis in a primer examining microcredit from a critical feminist perspective.
By Pamela Caro
Coordinated by Alejandra Scampini
The Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power series shares information, experiences from the ground, and testimonies from diverse groups of women. It provides analysis and builds knowledge on alternative visions and practices of development, with a vision of transformation.
IDeA presents the newest Brief in the Impact on the Crisis on Women’s Rights: Sub regional perspectives series.
By Anne Schoenstein and Cecilia Alemany
Contributors: Natalie Raaber, Diana Aguiar, Alejandra Scampini, Fernanda Hopenhaym, Verónica Vidal, and Ivahanna Larrosa
The aid effectiveness agenda has been much too technical, prioritizing macro-economic modalities over development effectiveness. Excessive attention has been given to the way in which aid is delivered, with too little focus on what aid and development cooperation have actually attained for women and men on the ground.
FRIDAY FILE: Initiated in opposition to the exclusive World Economic Forum, the World Social Forum(WSF) has, since it began in 2001, become an important space for civil society movements to propose alternatives to the dominant system, under the banner “Another world is possible”.
The 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) that took place in Busan, South Korea on November 29 - December 1, 2011 saw women's organizations together with CSOs, mobilizing and pushing for greater commitments to achieve gender equality in international development cooperation. See a collection of resources and updates on what happened and beyond:
