Author: Valerie
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Walking the Talk’s highlights of 2025
A new year lies ahead of us, full of opportunities to address global setbacks in funding for gender equality, care, health, education, and climate. Together, at CSW, Women Deliver, and on many other occasions, we will work toward a fair, feminist future. For inspiration, learn about the highlights of Walking the Talk in 2025.
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COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence
By Chido Nyaruwata, one of our ‘Walkie-Talkies’ Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people. Read the full article on African Climate Wire. The ‘Walkie-Talkies’ are feminists with expertise and lived experiences in gender equality policies and practices.…
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Why feminist financing must lead the global development agenda
By Bruna Martinez, program manager of Walking the Talk at Hivos, and Jim Monkel, advocacy officer of Walking the Talk at Hivos. From the 1995 Beijing Declaration to Addis Ababa and the Sustainable Development Goals, world leaders have promised that gender equality would be central to global development. So, by now you’d think gender equality and non-discrimination…
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From scarcity to abundance: What did we learn at the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference?
By Kit Muirhead, Alliance Magazine ‘A key takeaway was that feminists must learn to operate as a united political movement, rather than as a disparate collection of civil society organisations. In a system designed to divide, bureaucratise, and depoliticise feminist organising, this is no easy task.’ Kit Muirhead, partnerships manager and gender lead at Alliance…
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Financing for Feminist Futures: rethinking how we resource change
By Sian Kavanagh, Hivos Global Office As a lifelong feminist and now communication professional, I was delighted when I was asked at the last minute to join Hivos in Madrid this month for the Financing for Feminist Futures conference. Before leaving, my colleagues gave me a crash course in the current state of “feminist financing.”…
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What role did Feminist Foreign Policies play at the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?
By Dinorah Arceta Casanova, one of our ‘Walkie-Talkies’ From August 10 to 15, 2025, Mexico City hosted the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (RCW), a key regional governance space that brought together governments, civil society, international organizations, parliamentarians, and social movements under the theme of “the care society.” This…