About MENA Fem Movement
MENA Fem Movement For Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice
MENAFem envisions a new global economic system based on intersectional feminist principles, human rights, and ecological justice driven by the needs of communities and the marginalised, in particular in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and beyond.
Activities
MENAFem Annual Feminist Economics School 2025 – Rabat
From May 13 to 15, 2025, feminist scholars, activists, and civil society actors…
Institutions
Feminist Reflections on the WB and IMF 2025 Springs: A Failure to Read the Room
The IMF–World Bank Spring Meetings 2025 ended with statements about resilience,…
Resources
How the global debt system is undermining democracy and fuelling authoritarianism…
Written by Tess Woolfenden | Edited by Jerome Phelps
With huge thanks to the…
Blogs
Advancing a Fair and Funded Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
At the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28) in 2023, countries for the first time agreed to "transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems." However, since COP 28, global fossil fuel production and consumption has…
200+ orgs call for an Urgent Reform of the UN Climate Talks: #TheCOPWeNeed
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has reached a critical breaking point. Climate negotiations have systematically failed to deliver climate justice and undermined international law, from marginalizing…
MENAFem at FfD4: Feminist Alternatives, Economic Justice, & Global Mobilizations for Systemic…
From June 30 to July 3, 2025, governments, financial institutions, and global leaders will convene in Seville, Spain for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). This moment presents a critical opportunity to…
The Illusion of Consensus: FfD4 and the Fight for Systemic Change
The outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) was adopted yesterday in a moment that is already being framed as a triumph of multilateralism.
It wasn’t.