FW: [womensescr-descmujeres-femmes] fyi! 📅 Invite: Gender IFI Summer School: 27 Aug to 6 Sept 2024
Priti Darooka
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Subject: [womensescr-descmujeres-femmes] fyi! 📅 Invite: Gender IFI Summer School: 27 Aug to 6 Sept 2024
FYI, Apologies in English ONLY
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Dear friends and colleagues,
I am sending you an invitation to participate in this year’s online Gender International Financial Institutions (IFI) group’s Summer School, which will consist of several sessions between 26th August and 6th September 2024. Please find the full program attached and online.
The Gender IFI Summer School, organised by the Gender IFI civil society collective, brings together regional and global organisations working to advance economic justice issues, particularly from a feminist perspective, to discuss the IFIs’ impact on women’s rights and wellbeing, as well as sharing strategies and tactics to push back amongst participants.
WHAT IS THE GENDER IFI SUMMER SCHOOL?
- Six free online learning sessions, featuring experienced speakers teaching about how international financial institutions (IFIs) impact women’s rights, plus the sharing of advocacy and mobilising tactics to rise up against them amongst participants.
WHO CAN JOIN?
- The summer school is free to any activist, scholar and advocate interested in learning about economic justice and IFI influencing – especially women’s rights groups!
WHO IS ORGANISING THIS?
- The Gender IFI collective, a group of economic justice, women’s rights and IFI advocacy groups.
Please feel free to attend the following events:
The Zoom link stays the same for all the events, I am copying it for your convenience.
1) Tuesday 27th August: WBG & IMF Gender Advocacy - History, Strategy, Tactics 3pm – 4:30pm (CEST)
An initial informative session exploring how International Financial Institutions (IFIs), primarily the World Bank and IMF, operate and perpetuate gendered harm. A historical review of the role of IFIs through the past several decades will be offered, highlighting how the colonial vision of ‘development’, through structural adjustment and its modern iterations, continues to keep global majority countries from adequately meeting their populations’ needs; especially women, girls and sexual and gender minorities. Panellists will highlight the gendered impacts of macroeconomic policies promoted by the institutions, examining their impacts on women in different regions of the world.
Speakers: IBON International, Centre for Global Development, ActionAid UK, Christian Aid.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86327912393?pwd=avjbf1bLmH7kaSXFn3v7KaAkOd3lh7.1
Meeting ID: 863 2791 2393
Passcode: 752688
2) Wednesday 28th August: Feminist approaches to debt and women as workers 3pm – 4:30pm (CEST)
Debt is an increasingly pervasive burden for countries across the globe, within which the IFIs are heavily intertwined and influential. Reflecting on recent work linking the topic of debt to feminism, panellists will explore how the IFIs affect the global debt situation. The session will have a special focus on women as workers and the impact debt levels have on them, offering regional case studies from a Pan-African perspective. Others will explore alternatives to debt, including life sustainability over debt.
Speakers: MENAfem, National University of Rio Negro (CIEDIS), Latindadd, International Trade Union Confederation.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86327912393?pwd=avjbf1bLmH7kaSXFn3v7KaAkOd3lh7.1
Meeting ID: 863 2791 2393
Passcode: 752688
3) Friday 30th August: Progressive taxation for the care economy 3pm – 4:30pm (CEST)
A session exploring the importance of progressive taxation in relation to the care economy. Following an introduction to care (defining paid and unpaid, domestic and formal, types of care, and the enormous role it plays in supporting economies whilst being largely unvalued), presenters will explore the importance of progressive taxation based on their respective workstreams. Recent findings from the Financial Transparency Coalition will be shared. Deeper dives into the vital role of governments and how this is undermined by institutions including the World Bank and IMF will be offered by presenters, with case studies including a Latin American perspective.
Speakers from: ActionAid UK & Young Urban Women, Financial Transparency Coalition, Latindadd, Christian Aid.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86327912393?pwd=avjbf1bLmH7kaSXFn3v7KaAkOd3lh7.1
Meeting ID: 863 2791 2393
Passcode: 752688
4) Monday 2nd September: Gender and financialization 3pm – 4:30pm (CEST)
Financialisation has reconfigured the international development space in much the same way as it has reconfigured the global economy to work in the interests of international finance. Finance has become an engine for the extraction of value from the real economy (the non-financial sectors of the economy). Private capital has been recast as a key development actor, essential to plug the supposed funding gap caused by inadequate domestic revenue mobilisation and international aid to finance the development of the Global South. This session will provide an overview of the gendered impacts of the financialisation on development, with a focus on the privatisation of public services and the effects of reconfiguring Global South economies to facilitate profit extraction.
Speakers from: University of Rio de Janeiro & SOAS, Gender Action, FEMNET, Oxfam.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86327912393?pwd=avjbf1bLmH7kaSXFn3v7KaAkOd3lh7.1
Meeting ID: 863 2791 2393
Passcode: 752688
5) Wednesday 4th September: Beyond the bottom line: Moving past austerity in the Global South 3pm – 4:30pm (CEST)
This session challenges the traditional economic framework focused on GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and explores the impact of austerity measures on the working class, women, and the environment in Global South countries. This session will provide a critical perspective on the creation of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), highlighting their historical role in promoting austerity policies in the Global South. It will delve into the mechanisms of SAPs, using real-world case studies from the MENA, Latin America, and Africa to illustrate their effects. It will also explore the inflationary consequences of austerity measures, analyzing how they disproportionately impact marginalized communities, particularly women. We’ll tackle how austerity policies lead to cuts in social programs like healthcare and education, hindering progress towards gender equality and environmental sustainability. We will also discuss how austerity measures exacerbate existing inequalities, disproportionately affecting women’s access to resources and environmental well-being. The session will highlight inspiring examples of movements in Kenya and Argentina who have mobilized against austerity and advocated for alternative economic models. We will conclude by exploring concepts like the well-being economy and feminist economic alternatives. We’ll also discuss successful grassroots initiatives in the Global South that operate outside traditional frameworks.
Speakers from: CEWLA, FEMNET, FARN, MENAFem.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86327912393?pwd=avjbf1bLmH7kaSXFn3v7KaAkOd3lh7.1
Meeting ID: 863 2791 2393
Passcode: 752688
6) Friday 6th September: Imagining feminist and decolonial development (strategising) 3pm – 4:30pm (CEST)
A forward-looking space for sharing feminist and decolonial hopes for the future. What does feminist development look like? Where do we see interesting efforts at disrupting the current development finance model? How can we bring about this vision? Let’s strategise and share hopeful examples of solidarity and ongoing feminist initiatives. Panellists will share their perspectives and offer examples of feminist alternatives.
Speakers from: International Trade Union Confederation, DAWN, ActionAid UK.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86327912393?pwd=avjbf1bLmH7kaSXFn3v7KaAkOd3lh7.1
Meeting ID: 863 2791 2393
Passcode: 752688
The sessions will be recorded and translation channels available where feasible.
We hope to see you there!
In solidarity,
Polina
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Thank you so much for sharing this opportunity with us. We love to enjoy the classes.
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