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DAWN
- Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
STRENGTHENING POLICY ANALYSIS &
ADVOCACY ON GENDER, ECONOMIC, & ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE
In acknowledgement of the urgent need for more effective and
interlinked regional feminist responses from the economic south involving and
in support of women advocates working in areas of gender and development, DAWN
is organising a series of regional consultations and training institutes on
“Strengthening Policy Analysis and Advocacy on Gender,
Economic and Ecological Justice” in three
regions - the Pacific, Africa and Latin America - in 2010 and 2011.
This advocacy is part of DAWN’s on-going effort to help
promote awareness on and resolution to three major challenges highlighted in
global governance debates: The first challenge is the existence of double
standards in the response to the triple crisis. An unequal playing field in key
policy areas is a major obstacle to coordinated response.
The second challenge is the search for a sustainable model
of economic recovery, growth, and development. The focus on financing climate
change mitigation and adaptation is too narrow given the significant resource
flows needed for developing countries to shift from high carbon, fossil-fuel
energy to low carbon, renewable energy sources; to address the food crisis
exacerbated by extreme and frequent climate events, floods, droughts, storms,
loss of arable land and biodiversity; and to provide social protection for
groups most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change including disease,
landlessness, migration, poverty, and much more. Thus, far solutions to all
these challenges have tended to be market- or technology-oriented and driven by
corporate interests, which have created new inequalities between the North and
the South.
The third challenge is the inconsistencies between international
trade rules (both WTO and regional trade mechanisms) and international
environmental agreements.While economic south governments and civil society
acknowledge some of these converging crises, as in other regions of the globe
the inter-linkages between them are often ignored.
This project brings together actors working in various
spheres of the areas of gender, economic and climate justice in the three
regions of the Pacific, Africa and Latin America, in settings where people can
raise difficult questions and political challenges in an atmosphere of trust
and collective reflection. Specifically, participants include researchers and
analysts from academia and civil society; policy makers from government,
inter-governmental and regional institutions; and young and local women
activists.
The training institutes and consultations aim to provide
venues for sharing information on a range of global and regional responses to
the world multiples crises, including new initiatives that challenge hegemonic
thinking and systems in finance, trade and monetary, and environmental
policymaking, as well as for mapping current measures, mechanisms and programs
at national and regional levels; and discuss possibilities, constraints and
contradictions. The women’s rights activists from local and regional
organizations will have their own facilitated input process.
Through the process, DAWN also hopes to encourage young
feminists and women’s rights advocates to increase their engagement in
transforming global economic and climate change governance structures; build
capacity in policy analysis and advocacy on key gender, economic and climate
justice issues, and their interlinkages; and encourage solidarity and support
to contribute to policy proposals and social movement activism toward and
during regional and global policy advocacy targets including the Tarawa Climate
Change Conference (Kiribati, Nov 9-12 2010), CBD COP 10 (Nagoya, 27-29 October
2010), UNFCCC COP 16 (Mexico, Nov 29-Dec 10, 2010), Rio+20' Earth Summit (New
York, May 2012), UNFCCC COP 17 (South Africa) and others.