Seville, Spain — On the margins of the Fourth Worldwide Conference on Financing for Pattern (FfD4), the African Females Leaders Community (AWLN) convened a formidable High-Stage Facet Tournament titled: “Bridging the Global Financing Gap: African Females’s Leadership for Financial Justice and Effective Implementation of Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030.”
The occasion took role on the FIBES Conference & Exhibition Center in Seville, Spain, at a essential time when the sector faces widening financing gaps, entrenched inequalities, and unsustainable debt burdens—particularly in emerging and developing economies.
This gathering placed a spotlight on African ladies folks as central drivers of transformative replace in the realm financing architecture. It emphasized that addressing this day’s world challenges requires an inclusive method rooted in justice, fairness, and team spirit. In her opening remarks, AWLN Co-Convener H.E. Mme Bineta Diop underscored the urgency of recognizing ladies folks’s financial rights, stating, “We are advocating for win entry to to capital, to land, to markets, and to boardrooms. No longer as a make a choice on, but as a compatible.”
Keynote speaker H.E. Cristina Duarte, UN Underneath-Secretary-Standard and Special Adviser on Africa stressed that structural reforms need to center ladies folks’s win entry to to productive property and impactful decision-making roles. H.E. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-Standard of the United Countries, reinforced this vision, declaring, “We are no longer beautiful talking up—we’re altering the map.”
The session featured a high-level panel moderated by Justice Meaza Ashenafi Mengistu, former President of the Federal Supreme Court docket of Ethiopia, and Dr. Loubna Karroum, CEO of KARDEV, who co-chair the AWLN Financial and Financial Inclusion (EcoFin) Pillar. Panelists incorporated H.E. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, former President of the Republic of Mauritius and AWLN Elder; H.E. Ms. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, CEO of AUDA-NEPAD; Dr. James Mwangi, CEO of Fairness Community Holdings, who stressed the importance of viewing funding in gender equality as impactful for financial rights and growth, no longer handiest a social profit; Dr. Fatima Farouk Elsheikh, Secretary-Standard of BADEA; and Dr. Jide Okeke, Director of the UNDP Regional Programme for Africa. The dialogue addressed modern and inclusive financing models, the role of women folks in domestic helpful resource mobilization (DRM), gender fairness in financial governance, and bounds to ladies folks’s win entry to to capital and land.
The occasion highlighted that sustainable development can no longer be achieved with out monetary programs that empower ladies folks and promote fairness.
Key outcomes incorporated a stable call for the reform of world monetary programs thru a gender fairness lens, the event of a submit-FfD4 advocacy roadmap, and renewed momentum for strategic partnerships between AWLN and monetary institutions. The occasion reaffirmed AWLN’s role as a main African platform in world dialogues on financial justice and monetary governance.
Audio system and contributors collectively emphasized that African ladies folks are critical in attaining sustainable peace, financial boost, and resilience. From driving agricultural productivity to shaping climate-responsive finance and public funding, ladies folks play important roles. Nonetheless, restricted win entry to to land, finance, and formal financial programs continues to hinder this doable. AWLN stressed the need to take away these structural boundaries and be sure that that women folks-led MSMEs hold win entry to to Africa’s vivid domestic monetary markets.
The occasion also reinforced the importance of gender steadiness in world decision-making constructions. AWLN echoed the draft FfD4 doc’s call to be sure that that gender parity on the governmentboards of world organizations thru strategic nominations, while also advocating for bottom-up strategies to make stronger and helpful resource ladies folks leaders in any admire phases.
Organized by AWLN in collaboration with the African Union, UN-OSAA, UNDP, BADEA, and AUDA-NEPAD, this aspect occasion underscored that financial transformation need to aloof be inclusive and African-led. It contributed meaningfully to the FfD4 agenda and to broader efforts geared in direction of implementing each and each Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Sustainable Pattern Targets.
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About AWLN:
The African Females Leaders Community (AWLN), established in 2017, is a continental platform that promotes ladies folks’s leadership for sustainable peace and development all over all sectors and phases. It builds on fresh ladies folks’s networks, with the make stronger of the African Union and the United Countries. AWLN showcases the leadership of African ladies folks and targets to fortify their participation in decision-making processes thru strategies equivalent to mentoring and search for learning, reinforced team spirit, advocacy, and capability building.
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