FDL at Financing for Feminist Futures Conference

Last week, the Feminist Diplomacy Lab attended the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference organised by the Walking the Talk Consortium in Madrid. 

On the heels of FFD4, and preceding the Feminist Foreign Policies Conferences which will be hosted by France next week as well as the upcoming G7 and G20 summits, the conference gathered round 200 activists, policymakers, government representatives, civil society representatives, and donors to discuss ways to secure better funding for gender equality. 

Split across three overlapping tracks: building intersectional movements, holding the line on existing funding, and following up on FFD4, the three days in Madrid were an opportunity to move forward from diagnostic discussions on the state of funding and community organising and to float ideas on making the most of the landscape we currently have, while not losing sight of the bigger goal of reforming funding structures and donor education to ensure support for intersectional funding centring the perspectives of the most marginalised. 

A sincere thank you to the Walking the Talk Consortium for convening and all the participants and speakers for making it a space full of energy.