MENAFem at FfD4: Feminist Alternatives, Economic Justice, & Global Mobilizations for Systemic Change
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 challenge austerity, debt dependency, and the economic structures that continue to extract from the Global South.
MENAFem Movement for Economic Development and Ecological Justice is proud to co-organize and participate in several key side events that center feminist and justice-based alternatives to the dominant development model. We are also part of broader civil society mobilizations demanding systemic change.
We invite you to join us—in person, online, and in the streets.
🔹 The Rabat Roadmap: A Collective Feminist Agenda for People and Planet
📅 Monday, 30 June 2025 | 🕝 14:30–16:00 CEST
📍 Online | Register via Zoom
Organized by: WEDO, MENAFem, Bretton Woods Project, CESR, Akina Mama wa Afrika, Christian Aid, Eurodad, GADN
A feminist side event presenting the Rabat Roadmap—developed by MENA and Global South feminists during our recent Global Feminist Convening as a tool for collective advocacy—rooted in structural and decolonial analysis across FfD, debt, tax, and climate justice. In the face of rising militarism and collapsing multilateralism, the event builds solidarity to confront patriarchal, extractivist, and neoliberal power structures.
🔹 Exploring Pan-African Alternatives to Reconstructing the Global Fiscal & Financial Architecture
📅 Tuesday, 1 July 2025 | 🕙 10:00–12:00 CEST / 11:00–13:00 EAT
📍 Online | Register via Zoom
Organized by: Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) & MENAFem
This session explores African feminist alternatives for reimagining the global financial system through justice-centered, Pan-African economic visions, with a focus on the taxation of the digital economy.
🔹 Financing Alternatives to Budget Cuts: Investing in Universal Social Protection and Public Services for All
📅 Wednesday, 2 July 2025 | 🕝 14:30–16:00 CEST
📍 Side Event 9 – FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre
Organized by: End Austerity Campaign
Explore fiscal justice strategies to fund public services and social protection without resorting to austerity or cuts.
🔹 Catalysing a systemic shift to caring economies beyond GDP: The critical role of FFD4
📅 Thursday, 3 July 2025 | 🕣 08:30–10:00 CEST
📍 Side Event 22 – FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre
Organized by: Equidad de Género, Oxfam GB, UNCTAD, OHCHR, MENAFem, CESR, AMwA
This session explores the transformative potential of the “Beyond GDP” agenda to advance feminist economies rooted in care, justice, and the public good.
✊🏽 Global Mobilizations Around FfD4
🔸 Global Days of Action | 27–29 June 2025
In the lead-up to FfD4, join coordinated online and in-person mobilizations demanding debt cancellation, economic and climate justice, and systemic change. These actions are organized globally by allied movements including APMDD and CAN-International, with a shared message: Cancel the Debt, Change the System.
🛠️ A mobilization toolkit with posters, messaging, and social media resources is available here.
As part of the Global Days of Action, we will be taking part in the Economic Justice Mobilization, with the statement, resources, and toolkit to be found at economicjustice.global.
🔸 Rise for a Just Future: Mass Mobilization During FfD4
📅 30 June – 3 July 2025 | 📍 Seville, Spain + 9 other countries
While governments and financial institutions meet in Seville to decide the future of development financing, we will be in the streets demanding an end to the global economic system that extracts from many to enrich the few. Join us in Seville or in one of 9 other countries to demand justice, solidarity, and systemic change.
🗣️ Say it out loud. #RiseFor a just future.
📥 Download the Action Pack here.
We encourage our networks and allies to engage, mobilize, and amplify these efforts. This is a pivotal moment to rise together for feminist economic transformation rooted in justice, care, and sovereignty. For questions or more information, please contact the MENAFem team.