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<DIV>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!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Rosa</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 6/24/2008 1:41:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lysa.john@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Dear Rosa, Ana</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Hope someone from the FTF was able to attend the FFD
meeting. Here is an update from Yamini.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Best regards,<BR>Lysa John<BR>-- <BR>Wada-Na-Todo-Abhiyan<BR>C-1/E,
2nd Flr, Green Park Ext., New Delhi 110016<BR>Tel: 91-11-46082371 to 74 / <A
title=http://www.wadanatodo.net/
href="http://www.wadanatodo.net/">www.wadanatodo.net</A><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
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title=mailto:yamini.mishra@gmail.com
href="mailto:yamini.mishra@gmail.com">yamini mishra</A> </DIV>
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href="mailto:rsubrahmanian@unicef.org">Ramya Subrahmanian</A> ; <A
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 21, 2008 12:39 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Engendering the Monterrey Consensus</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Dear Friends and Colleagues, <BR>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So wanted to share this with all of you:</DIV>
<DIV>=============================================</DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT color=#3333ff>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.<BR><BR>The outcome of this meeting is commonly known as the
<U>Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development (FfD)</U> 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 <U>Follow-up Conference on
the Monterrey Consensus will be held 29 November – 02 December 2008 in Doha,
Qatar. <BR></U><BR><U>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.</U> <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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!<BR> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#3333ff>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. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#3333ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#3333ff><U>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. </U>It is likely that the G77 countries will find our
call for a meeting for them them to discuss competition for FDI
very timely. </FONT><BR><BR>thanks</DIV>
<DIV>yamini<BR>-- <BR>Executive Director<BR>Centre for Budget and Governance
Accountability<BR>Second Floor, A-11 Niti Bagh<BR>New Delhi-110049<BR>Telefax:
+91 11 417 412 85/86/87</DIV>
<DIV><BR>[*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)].<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient <A title="http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007" href="http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007" target="_blank">used cars</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>