Posts tagged privatisation
Achieving gender equality and women’s rights through public services and social protection

December 2023

Briefing: This briefing argues that publicly funded and managed public services and social protection are central to achieving gender equality and women’s rights. It underscores that publicly financed services are more cost-effective, sustainable and equitable despite the growing privatisation trend. It concludes with recommendations from Southern groups for increasing fiscal space.

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Feminist Proposals on Macroeconomic Policies needed for a COVID-19 Economic Recovery: A perspective from the African continent

June 2021

Briefing: Three academics from the Institute for Economic Justice in South Africa suggest that Covid-19 presents an opportunity to reshape macroeconomics, explain feminist approaches, explore the responses of African governments to the pandemic, and propose recommendations for a more just and equitable economic recovery.

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Feminist proposals for a just, equitable and sustainable post-COVID-19 economic recovery

February 2021

Briefing: As part of the COVID-19 economic recovery, feminists worldwide have been devising and calling for alternative solutions in key macroeconomic policy areas. This briefing collates and highlights these alternative proposals, centring the voices of actors who are often-overlooked by decision-makers.

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Feminist Macroeconomic Proposals: Rebuilding More Equitable, Just and Sustainable Economies post-COVID-19

January 2021

Resources: As post-pandemic economic recovery plans unfold globally, feminists and women’s rights organisations have been devising macroeconomic proposals that aim to bring the long-term transformative change needed to overcome this crisis. We will continue to add feminist proposals and resources to this page as they are published.

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The Audacity to Disrupt: An Introduction to Feminist Macro-level Economics

August 2020

Guide: This guide seeks to provide an introduction to a feminist analysis of macro-level economics - a key consideration as part of the post-Covid 19 global economic recovery. FEMNET has produced this guide as the latest contribution to its annual African Feminist Macroeconomic Academy (AFMA) which aims to increase feminists’ capacity to influence macroeconomic policies on the African continent, and globally.

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Stepping up: How governments can contribute to women’s economic empowerment

February 2017

Government economic policy shapes women’s lives, and could be a force for equality, yet too often this potential is not realised.  Government’s must play a central role in achieving women’s economic empowerment, they should prioritise tackling the underlying barriers to economic empowerment, particularly those faced by marginalised women.

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CSW61 Factsheet: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work

January 2017

Ahead of the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61), the Gender & Development Network has developed a factsheet which provides an overview of the structural economic barriers to women’s economic empowerment. For each of these areas, the factsheet makes recommendations to governments.

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Making Financing for Development Work for Gender Equality: What is needed at Addis and beyond

June 2015

Throughout the Post-2015 process, many governments have successfully championed gender equality within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is now vital that sufficient funding is secured and that, crucially, this is of high quality and raised in a way that promotes gender equality and women’s rights. The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) provides a timely opportunity. However, although there has been significant visibility of gender equality issues within the FfD3 process, there has been limited recognition that different sources of financing have differing impacts on gender equality or that gender biases within the economy continue to reinforce discrimination against women and girls.

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