Join SEATINI and partners at the CSPF and WBG/IMF Spring Meetings 2024
Join SEATINI and partners at the CSPF and WBG/IMF Spring Meetings 2024
SEATINI will be joining CSO partners at the Civil Society Policy Forum and World Bank Group – International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings from April 15th to April 20th 2024.
Below are some of the events we are co-organising with other partners.
Is a feminist vision on public debt possible?
17 April | 15.00 – 16.30 CEST
Organised by: ActionAid International, AfSDJN, APMDD, Budget Advocacy Network, Debt Justice Norway, ESCR-Net, Eurodad, FEMNET, Gender Action, Latindadd, MENAFem Movement, SAPSN, SEATINI, Third World Network, WEDO.
This session will delve into the intricate relationship between debt, gender justice, and human rights, drawing insights from the upcoming book “Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights Approach” (Bristol University Press). We aim to uncover the gender biases embedded within current orthodox economic policies and explore strategies for transformative change. Through a discussion including experts from diverse fields and IMF staff, we will examine how responses to debt crises not only disproportionately affect women, exacerbating gender inequalities and undermining human rights, but are based on gender-biased assumptions about gender division of labor and women’s unpaid and underpaid care work. Our discussion will focus on promoting solutions that shift the paradigm towards a feminist human rights-centered approach to debt sustainability, challenging the narrative that prioritizes debt repayment over the well-being of communities.
Speakers:
• Shereen Talaat, Founder, MENAFem Movement
• Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina, National University of Rio Negro
• Penelope Hawkins, Senior Economic Affairs Officer at UNCTAD
• Monique Newiak, Deputy Unit Chief, Inclusion and Gender Unit, IMF
Moderated by Patricia Miranda, Global Advocacy Director, Latindadd
Financing a Just Transition: Feminist Perspectives on Innovative Climate Finance Instruments Amid Multiple Crises
19 April | 15.00 – 16.30 CEST
Organised by: Akina Mama Wa Afrika Location: WB I 2-220
The WBG has been at the frontline in advancing innovative climate finance instruments and approaches in order to maximize the impact of climate finance through mobilizing and deploying concessional finance. However, the nature of some of these instruments presents challenges for countries with limited fiscal space coupled with climate vulnerability, poverty, and narrow fiscal space. This session presents evidence of the need to reform new and innovative climate finance instruments to ensure that they are contextual and applicable to countries facing multiple crises – ensuring that climate finance structure and mode of delivery are inclusive, just, and sustainable. It discusses what the WBG can do to bring its climate finance plan and the broader global finance architecture in line with gender justice, economic justice, and climate justice.
Speakers:
• Panelist 1: Regina Navuga, Program Coordinator, Financing for Development, SEATINI
• Panelist 2: Grace Namugambe, Economic Justice Officer, FEMNET
• Panelist 3: Dr. Basani Baloyi, Program Director, Institute for Economic Justice,
• Panelist 4: World Bank Representative (TBC)
Moderator: Anne Songole, Climate Finance Advisor, Christian Aid
Moving beyond current debt and development crisis: solutions for genuine debt sustainability
19 April | 17.30 – 19.00 CEST
Organised by: AFRODAD, AfSDJN, ANND, ActionAid International, APMDD, Bretton Woods Project, CESR, Debt Justice Norway, Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery (DRGR) Project, Development Finance International, erlassjahr.de, Eurodad, Global Policy Forum, Institute for Economic Justice, ISER, ITUC, Jubilee USA, Latindadd, SEATINI, Norwegian Church Aid.
The debt crisis is no longer a risk but a reality in many countries. It is therefore key to restore debt sustainability in a way that it ensures governments capacity to guarantee human rights, gender equality and climate action while also looking at the crisis from a structural perspective. The panel will explore how to effectively solve this debt crisis considering it is as well a development crisis.
Speakers:
• Samantha Kanoyangwa, Coordinator, AfSDJN
• Jason Rosario Braganza, Executive Director, AFRODAD
• Marina Zucker-Marques, Senior Academic Researcher, DRGR
• Mark Flanagan, Deputy Director, Strategy Policy and Review Department, IMF
Moderated by Iolanda Fresnillo, Policy and Advocacy Manager, Eurodad.
Financing a Just Transition: Feminist Perspectives on Innovative Climate Finance Instruments Amid Multiple Crises
Organised by: Akina Mama Wa Afrika Location: WB I 2-220
The WBG has been at the frontline in advancing innovative climate finance instruments and approaches in order to maximize the impact of climate finance through mobilizing and deploying concessional finance. However, the nature of some of these instruments presents challenges for countries with limited fiscal space coupled with climate vulnerability, poverty, and narrow fiscal space. This session presents evidence of the need to reform new and innovative climate finance instruments to ensure that they are contextual and applicable to countries facing multiple crises – ensuring that climate finance structure and mode of delivery are inclusive, just, and sustainable. It discusses what the WBG can do to bring its climate finance plan and the broader global finance architecture in line with gender justice, economic justice, and climate justice.
Speakers
• Moderator: Anne Songole, Climate Finance Advisor, Christian Aid
• Panelist 1: Regina Navuga, Program Coordinator, SEATINI
• Panelist 2: Grace Namugambe, Economic Justice Officer, FEMNET
• Panelist 3: Dr. Basani Baloyi, Program Director, Institute for Economic Justice
• Panelist 4: Anne T Kuriakose, Senior Social Development Specialist, World Bank
Beyond Size in IDA21 Replenishment – What About Socio-Economic Transformation?
19 April | 20.15 – 21.45 CEST
Organised by: Eurodad, Afrodad, Oxfam International, Bretton Woods Project, SEATINI, ACET.
IDA21 happens in a polycrisis context and within the framework of the WBG Evolution Roadmap. While most discussions will focus on its finance, this session will discuss the policy framework to deliver socioeconomic transformation. This implies examining IDA’s experience and addressing the structural causes of why developing countries are stuck in recurrent borrowing.
Speakers:
• Jane Nalunga, Executive Director, SEATINI
• Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi, Executive Vice President, Africa Center for Economic Transformation
• Fati N’zi-Hassane, Director of Oxfam in Africa
• World Bank Representative (TBC)
Moderated by Jason Braganza, Executive Director, AFRODAD
Watch it here (link available soon)
Navigating the Intertwined Debt and Climate Crisis: Unveiling and Assessing Solutions
19 April | 22.00 – 23.30 CEST
Organised by: Action Aid International; African Sovereign Debt Justice Network (AfSDJN); AfriCatalyst; AFRODAD; Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND); Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development; Bretton Woods Project; Caribbean Policy Development Centre; Center for Economic and Policy Research; Center for Human Rights and Climate Change Research; Climate Action Network International; Christian Aid; Debt for Climate; Debt for Climate South Africa; Debt Justice Norway; Debt Relief for a Green and Inclusive Recovery (DRGR); Demand Climate Justice; ESCR-net; Eurodad; Institute For Economic Justice; Initiative for Social and Economic Rights; Latindadd; MENAfem Movement for Economic, Development and Ecological Justice; Partners In Health; Recourse; SEATINI Uganda; Third World Network; WEDO.
In this session, we will explore some of the solutions being proposed to address the debt-climate change trap that many Global South countries are facing, including Climate Resilient Debt Clauses and debt for climate/nature swaps, and interrogate what impact, if any, they are likely to have for Global South countries.
Speakers:
• Jwala Rambarran, Senior Policy Advisor at the Caribbean Policy Development Centre
• Adrian Chikowore, Institute for Economic Justice, Researcher
• Marina Zucker-Marques, Senior Academic Researcher for the Global Economic Governance Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center instead of Yuefen
• Marcos de Chamon, Deputy Division Chief, IMF
Moderated by Shereen Talaat, Director, MENAFem Movement
