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12 Calls to Action for Resourcing Gender Equality

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Financing Feminist Futures

The 12 Calls to Action for Resourcing Gender Equality is a bold initiative to mobilize substantially more and better-quality resources for gender equality efforts generally and specifically for feminist movements and women’s rights organizations in the Global South. Walking the Talk brought together feminist activists, researchers, funders, and analysts from around the world, to articulate the 12 Calls to Action (formerly known as the Common Ask Framework) that can be used for strategic and collective advocacy.

“Progress on gender equality is stalled. Nearly 40% of countries saw stagnation or decline in key gender equality indicators, according to the 2024 SDG Gender Index of Equal Measures 2030.“

The headlines are alarming. Women rights organizations and women/LGBTIQ+ human rights defenders face multiple threats: funding cuts, physical threats, closing civic space, crackdown on rights, restrictions on operations and receiving money from outside the country, rising authoritarianism and so on.

Collective support for these brave activists is not only needed but possible. To strengthen advocacy, the Walking the Talk consortium coordinated a collective effort to identify a set of recommendations aimed at global north governments providing ODA, multilateral organizations, philanthropy and civil society. The 12 Calls to Action for Resourcing Gender Equality build on analysis of past and current funding flows and relationships, previous recommendations, and global discussions.

Two character see a leaking pipe. One of them decides to try to fix it with tape, while the other points out that this is hopeless and a new pipe is needed.
We advocate for sustainable funding that addresses root causes creating a more equitable world for all. Sanitarypanels has created this cartoon to illustrate a research project on adopting feminist principles in philanthropy in Asia.

The 12 Calls to Action are a tool to support follow-up to the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, discussions on the future of official development assistance, and mobilizing resources to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (in particular, Goal 5).

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Together we are stronger

We invite everyone to use (one or more of) the 12 Calls to Action for Resourcing Gender Equality in their advocacy. This is an opportunity to build momentum, amplify all voices, and unlock resources for just feminist futures. 

Has your organization been using the 12 Calls to Action for Resourcing Gender Equality for advocacy? Let us know how you have used this or these Call(s) to Action and tell us about the impact by answering a few short questions.

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