Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, IANWGE 
Task Force on Gender and Financing for Development

The task force, managed by DAW, worked actively to ensure that a gender perspective was reflected in the preparatory process and outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD) in 2001- 2002. It supported coordination and collaboration within the UN system on gender and financing for development and the coordination and sharing of information between the UN system, other international and regional organizations, and NGOs and civil society groups and networks, particularly women's groups and networks.

A panel on gender mainstreaming and national budgets was organized during the FfD Conference preparatory meeting in January 2002. A Day of Dialogue on gender and financing for development was organized for different actors, including government representatives, civil society groups, the private sector, representatives of academic and representatives from the UN system prior to the conference in Monterrey. The task force identified ways by which the individual members of the Network could work to ensure adequate inclusion of gender perspectives in follow-up to the international conference.

a) Statements in plenary at the PrepComs

The Chair of the IANWGE, Ms. Angela King, made statements at the Preparatory Conferences in May and October 2001.

* Incorporating gender perspectives in the Financing for Development agenda
Statement to the Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development by Ms. Angela E.V. King
* Gender perspectives on Financing for Development  
Statement to the Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Financing for Development by Ms. Angela E.V. King


b) Reports


c) Day of dialogue on Financing for Development, 25 February 2002, New York


d) Panel on "Gender Mainstreaming in National Budgets: A Strategy for Ensuring Gender-Sensitive Resource Allocations", 23 January 2002, New York


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