Author: jpoelen
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What it would take for Feminist Foreign Policy to actually deliver
Our demands for the 5th Feminist Foreign Policy Ministerial Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) is at a critical crossroads. Political commitments and declarations have increased in recent years, but without real changes in how resources are mobilized, allocated, and managed, these commitments will not deliver on gender equality. This framing is precisely what guided the session,…
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Financing for development: from gender commitments to action?
By Eefje van Esch, Advocacy Coordinator, Hivos Financing for development has long been conceptualized as an abstraction. It relates to how the world finances its efforts to end poverty, improve the well-being of its citizens through better health and educational systems, protect the planet and address climate change, and develop more equitable economies. Financing for development includes taxes, fiscal policies, aid, trade, private finance, and…
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CSW70: Access to justice requires access to global policy spaces
By Chido Nyaruwata Governments, activists, and advocates are preparing for the UN’s 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. This year’s focus is on improving access to justice for women and girls. But what does this mean for women and girls in Zimbabwe, where gender equality exists on paper but not in practice? And what does this mean when access to the most…