[Ftffacilitationteam] Re: Fw: Engendering the Monterrey Consensus

Mar Jun 24 10:51:01 UYT 2008

Thanks, Lysa, for this.  We had three FTF rep there:  Diana  Salas, Nicole 
Bidigain, and Yamini.  Am glad to hear Yamini was there, was  interested and is 
providing updates.  GCAP will be making a thrust on FfD  and the FTF is taking 
the lead.  More on tomorrow's conference call.   Thanks!

Best,
Rosa

In a message dated 6/24/2008 1:41:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lysa.john en gmail.com writes:

Dear Rosa, Ana

Hope someone from the FTF was able to attend the FFD  meeting. Here is an 
update from Yamini.

Best regards,
Lysa John
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Subject: Engendering the Monterrey Consensus

Dear Friends and Colleagues, 
I just got back from New York where some  women's groups are making 
commendable efforts towards engendering the  Monterrey Consensus and I wanted to share 
information on this with all of you.  Technical though issues like this might 
seem (initially I felt lost  too), these are actually highly political 
developments that impact  the global economic governance architecture and we cannot 
afford not to  engage these. 

So wanted to share this with all of you:
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In recognition that more concerted effort is  required to address the 
national, international and systemic challenges of  financing development (for the 
internationally agreed development goals  including MDGs), heads of State 
gathered in Monterrey, Mexico in 2002 and  adopted a set of actions addressing the 
inter-connected challenges of  financing for development (FfD) around the 
world, particularly in developing  countries.

The outcome of this meeting is commonly known as the  Monterrey Consensus on 
Financing for Development (FfD) which  essentially aims at mobilizing 
increased and predictable resources toward  achieving the internationally development 
targets.  As the conference  followed on the heels of the 1997 East Asian 
Economic Crisis, the burning  issues of that time like increasing the coherence of 
the international  economic system and ensuring better representation for 
developing countries at  key international bodies were also addressed. The 
Follow-up Conference on  the Monterrey Consensus will be held 29 November â€“ 02 
December 2008 in Doha,  Qatar. 

And as always, ensuring that these important  International Policy 
Pronouncements are not gender blind becomes a crucial  task. So far the women's rights 
agenda in these documents and processes has  been particularly weak.  

So, under banner of a Women's  Working Group (WWG)*, some women have been 
making concerted efforts to  come up with proposals that substantively address 
women's inter-linking  concerns in the Monterrey Consensus. Building a Gender 
Equality approach  across the seven chapters dealing with issues like 
international trade,  external debt, foreign investment, ODA, mobilising domestic 
resources, etc.,  which are strictly in the domain of conventional macro economics, 
was a very  challenging exercise and a brain teaser of sorts. 

Please see the  attached documents for more details. With inputs from 
different women's  rights advocates a substantive written submission with specific 
and  focused inputs on each of the seven chapters is on the verge of being  
finalised. The shorter version of the statement that was read at the  Hearing with 
CSOs and was well received.We also hope that at  least some of this will get 
into the the Chairs' draft outcome  document!

Since I do not want to block your email accounts with  huge attachments, I am 
attaching only two documents--  the intervention  made (the shorter version 
of that) and a background reading for your  own reference. For those of you who 
are interested in this, I will be  really happy to share all the relevant 
documents with you. 

At the first level, of course this is to inform  all of us. But more than 
that, for those of us who do advocacy/lobbying with  our governments, we could 
use this to build pressure on our governments  or with the official delegation 
that will be representing our countries at the  Doha convention more 
specifically, to ensure that women's concerns are  adequately addressed in the Doha 
conference on reviewing the Monterrey  Consensus.  It is likely that the G77 
countries will find our  call for a meeting for them  them to discuss competition 
for FDI  very timely. 

thanks
yamini
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[*The WWG is a network of women's rights advocates in the Financing  for 
Development (FfD) process, and is coordinated by the core group comprised  of 
Association for Women's Rights and Development (AWID), Development  Alternatives 
with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Feminist Task Force-Global Call  to Action 
against Poverty (FTF-GCAP), International Trade Union Confederation  (ITUC), 
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and Women in  Development 
Europe  (WIDE)].

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