CSW68 Expert Group Meeting
Expert Group Meeting: Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective:
UN Women convened a virtual expert group meeting (EGM) on the priority theme, Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective, from 3 - 6 October 2023.
Background Papers
- Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex
Reducing Women’s Poverty Through New Development Strategies - Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The International Financial System and Women’s Poverty
Expert Papers
- Leia Achampong, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, Climate Change, Eurodad
Gender-responsive climate finance: the key to just climate action and tackling inequalities - Imaobong Akpan, Senior Program Officer, International Budget Partnership, presented by Anna Patricia Munoz, Executive Director
Learnings on Promoting Gender Responsive Budget Systems - Jahnvi Andharia, Director, Institute of Social Studies Trust
Role of Collectives – Strengthening State Accountability, Promoting Women’s Rights Achieving Gender equality - Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Researcher, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET) and Lena Lavinas, Professor of Welfare Economics, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Associate Researcher, Economics Department SOAS, University of London
Gender Bonds: Do They Leverage or Threaten Women’s Rights? - Yasmine Ergas, Director, Gender & Public Policy Specialization, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
The Beijing Settlement and the Infrastructure of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment - Wendy Harcourt, Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Feminist Political Ecology - Leila Hessini, Feminist Strategies and AWID Board Member
Feminist approaches to resource mobilization to address intersectional gender disparities - Ipek Ilkkaracan, Professor of Economics, Istanbul Technical University
Purple Economy Framework - Christina Laskaridis, Assistant Professor in Economics, The Open University & Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
A gender lens for the international monetary and financial system – Truly feminist reforms needed - Heba Nassar, Professor of Economics, Cairo University
Economic and Social Policies for Eradication of women s poverty in The Arab Region - Sohela Nazneen, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Making Political Institutions address gendered poverty: Contexts, Capabilities and Change - Esther Camac Ramirez, Founder, ECMIA
A Vision from the Continental Link of Indigenous Women of the Americas (English | Spanish) - Michael Rogan, Associate Professor of Economics and Economic History, Rhodes University
Gender, Taxation and the Informal Sector - Durreen Shahnaz, Founder and CEO, Impact Investment Exchange
Orange Bond Initiative™: Connecting Back Streets to Wall Streets through Gender Equality - Yumiko Yamamoto, Associate Professor, Okayama University
Macroeconomic policy and its potential for reducing, and redistributing poor women’s unpaid labour
Observer Papers
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Untapped potential: Leveraging safe and orderly migration within poverty-reduction strategies to accelerate gender equality and women's empowerment - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Applying the human rights framework to address gendered poverty - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
When gender mainstreaming is not enough: The power of public institutional reforms to move towards gender-equal economies - United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Sexual and reproductive health and rights: a key pillar to addressing poverty from a gender perspective